Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

Ok so I have a million and one things to do. On my to do list is a lot of things to do with filming, a dissertation and graphic design. But none of it involves what I love doing most- drawing fantasy characters for the sheer hell of it! Out of fear that I'm losing myself and my inner interests to the world of work I've decided to take a few hours and just draw. For no purpose, competition or payment, but just to end up with an original picture of a fantasy character, like I used to do daily. Only now I think I've improved =) I chose to draw Neytiri from James Cameron's Avatar for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was a pastel drawing of Neytiri that was the first picture I ever uploaded digitally (it was on deviantart I think), marking the first time I ever felt confident enough to let my artwork be unleashed on the world. Secondly, I had the piano sheet music of Avatar sitting on my desk in front of me lol I used a few techniques that I learned from my ...

People ask me 'What is your job?' and 'What are you going to do  when you grow up/graduate? Well at the moment I'm a *Part Time Graphic Designer *Part Time Comic Book artist *Part time Filmmaker *Part TIme Web Designer *Part Time Music (piano, guitar and drums) Tutor *Enthusiast Movie Reviewer *All Round Entertainer But the last few months my portfolio's really been coming on a lot (hence my lack of blog activity) and it's time for an update. So being Bond's graphic designer has meant that I've been doing the small things, such as their job adverts and here's the first of things that I've designed for them that I've actually came across in use. (The website and mobile site hasn't been programmed yet and therefore isn't active yet) It's a nice simple job vacancies advert in the Belfast Telegraph. Simple, but hopefully effective! I've just finished working as assistant Graphic ...

Ok this may surprise alot of you going by the pattern of my blog but it is actually comic book artwork that   I do most! Albeit the last few months I've had to work to earn money and the majority of my jobs have been as graphic designer and doing things like laying out things or designing templates or even photmanipulation. But apart from the odd commission, my comic artwork really has taken a back seat. Well no more! I got an hour or 2 free and got this month's Imagine FX magazine which features a nice Dave Gibbon's Pic of Rorschach. It also taught me a few nice new features in MangaStudio and Photoshop which I couldn't resist trying out. Here's the Dave Gibbons Pic which I'm sure you'll agree is pretty sweet. Now here's my version. This isn't perfect because there was no point in me spending alot of time just trying to replicate someone else's artwork. SO instead this is a quick exercise in copying a few techniques and learning a ...

So a week or 2 ago I fulfilled a childhood dream and got to see Robbie Williams live in concert at the 02 Arena, Dublin. And I have to say it was fantastic. What made it great? Not the amazing atmosphere, hilarious banter between Robbie and the crowd or even the 'dad dancing' but the fact that this was a completely stripped back show with no light shows or special effects on screens or anything. And every penny/cent went towards Unicef and Childline, which I thought was a really great gesture from a music star and should hopefully inspire others across the globe to do the same thing. In fact the Dublin gig alone made over €300,000 and considering this was a 3 gig tour, it's likely that the million mark was passed. In just 3 nights. Imagine all of music's stars did this type of thing once a year? The difference it would make would be phenomenal. Anyway here's a quick graphic I did to say thank you and serve as a nice souvenir to all of those involved- The p...

Should You Dread Seeing Dredd ? Dredd 3D Movie Review Want to know what Karl Urban looks like under the mask? Then don't watch Dredd 3D.... NO SPOILERS I though it was spelt 'judgement' too. Turns out this is how you spell it in a legal sense. Nice. Life was always going to be tough for the new Judge Dredd film, being labelled as a comic book film in a year consisting of The Avengers , The Amazing Spider-man , The Dark Knight Rises and erm... Ghost Rider 2 .... But what sparked my interest is that Dredd 3D is not a simple comic book movie clone, with a sympathetic character going on a journey, falling in love, having a secret identity and a crisis point. Instead it's a shameless R rated, blood infested action movie. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Dredd 3D reminds me of the 2008 film Punisher War Zone , which I found hugely entertaining but critics hated. It's about a badass with a motive, to deal out justice the old fashioned way, ...

Movie Review Round Up! I Totally Recall Brave and Lawless ! First up on our Marvelous Movie Review Triple Bill is....   Total Recall (2012) You will not remember anything.... Yep that sounds about right. NO SPOILERS The good news is that there's no spoilers here at all. 'That's not like you, Scotty', you may be thinking. The simple reason is that I didn't really follow the plot well enough, to know enough about it, to spoil it! Damn, this movie doesn't let up. It's just 2 hours of constant action. Bizarre camera movements that make you feel sick, a consistently overwhelming score and ALOT of leaping! Seriously, every 2 seconds the actors are making some death defying leap in slow motion. Oh and everyone chases everyone a lot, it's like a big futuristic game of tag. Is there actually a plot to this film? Oh, there was? I wouldn't know because after about 45 minutes of action and fast cutting without a break my brain died a bit and I ju...

Ok before you come after me with pitchforks, I'll start by apologising for your recent distress. Two weeks without a post, including missing 2 Super Saturday Round Ups. We've all been crying ourselves to sleep but that all stops now. Time to wipe those tears away, because I'm back! Phew it's been one heckuva' busy few weeks. I've finished 6 Commissions, including The 2 for my boss (and I haven't been fired yet =D) 4 Birthday commission pieces (more on these soon!) I'm also 95% finished this website and have a few more projects lined up. Oh and my Bane pic is finished to but it's not with me right now so I can't upload yet =/ But these weren't the only things keeping me busy this week.... I TURNED 21!! I'm officially old enough to..... er...... say I'm 21! And in the last few weeks of August about half of my friends list also turned 21 so it's been a busy and huuuugely expensive tim...