The “this” in question is a video released to promote a recent BBC Timewatch documentary. 3 graphic designers on a tiny BBC budget managed to recreate the Omaha beach landing almost as well as Spielberg, with approximately 996 less actors:

“Bloody Omaha” – behind the scenes

I saw the documentary when it aired at the beginning of the month and wondered how they managed to produce the incredibly detailed re-enactments on the BBC’s notoriously strict budgets. The answer seems to be “with lots of running back and forth”.

Anywho, I’m planning to put up a few more random sketches this evening, so watch that that sketchbook thing over there for more pictures…

*EDIT* Pictures up now. Seems we can’t comment on individual images (is that for the “bugs” or “features” list, Mr. Mike? ) so I’ll do my spiel here…

The “face” picture started off as some random wavy lines in my new sketchbook and soon mutated into an entire head-and-shoulders picture. It’s not based on anyone in particular (no photo-ref or anything) but apparently it looks like someone I used to work with. Spooky.

The robot picture is actually titled “Human After All”, after the Daft Punk track that inspired it. I wanted to try out my decidedly rusty cross-hatching techniques and see if I could convey texture and light in the medium of fineliner… I took an extremely loose pencil sketch (just there to block out the space, really) and over the course of a few days’ commutes and lunch breaks I worked it up into the finished piece. Probably about 3-4 hours’ work in total.