Barnaby Ward uses Twitter to show his sketching process

Barnaby Ward, illustrator of the excellent Sixteen Miles to Merricks, says:

I recently started a Twitter feed to help document my work process. I'm very particular about what I put on my blog, so I figured a Twitter account would be a great way to post sketches, studies and work-in-progress shots from personal and non NDA projects. It's not quite at the tutorial stage, but if you're interested in seeing how I develop my work in photoshop, you can see the progress here.

[#1 posted by Anonymous, April 24, 2009 11:09 AM]

waifs, octopods, and tortoises -- it's like he knows what i want to see.

[#2 posted by trimeta, April 24, 2009 11:40 AM]

The fisherman's wife, I take it?

[#3 posted by Anonymous, April 24, 2009 11:46 AM]

Except that no fisherman's wife looks like that. More like fisherman's daughter.

(Feel free to provide me with pictures of fishermen's hot young, scantily clad wives to provide me wrong.)

[#4 posted by voiceofreason, April 24, 2009 12:24 PM]

To #2, yah, not exactly a particularly original or creative meme. In fact utterly beaten to death.

[#5 posted by PixelFish, April 24, 2009 12:58 PM]

Sigh. Nobody said a girl with an octopus was a supremely original idea. (Hey, I have a girl with an octopus in my own portfolio.) But beaten to death?

I like seeing different take on old ideas. One of the things I particularly enjoyed about art school assignments was seeing the wide variety of works that came out of the same assignment as everyone else.

(re: Twitter - I like using Flickr and use their notes to annotate when I share in progress works.)

[#6 posted by Takuan, April 24, 2009 1:15 PM]

if look closely you will see this a specimen of the Nine Tentacle Angler Octopus.

[#7 posted by IamInnocent, April 24, 2009 1:17 PM]

Ma seriously Leonardo! Not another Madonna with a baby: it has been beaten to death!

[#8 posted by lava, April 24, 2009 3:20 PM]

I do the same thing with my design work - posting progress images of drawings and 3d work - so:

http://twitter.com/lavardera/status/1572011284

http://twitter.com/lavardera/status/1484907445

No tentacles, nor stocking though, sorry.

[#9 posted by voiceofreason, April 27, 2009 9:41 AM]

Sure, all art is derivative, but that drawing, comes so close to 1,000 other Manga illustrations as to be essentially indistinguisable.

[#10 posted by Anonymous, July 12, 2009 9:14 PM]

He has some excellent work over at inPRNT too.

[#11 posted by nosehat, July 12, 2009 9:37 PM]

I went to the Twitter feed, but couldn't find his works in progress. Does anyone have a direct link?

@Anon #10: Thanks for the link. His Alice series is really cool.