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Richard Littler

Sep 31 min read

Photo Dump #1 (Environment)

I don't consider myself a photographer, although I've snapped a fair few pictures in my time. I don't share them very often so I thought...

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Vector Graphic Exercise (1950s Record Labels)

Richard Littler

Aug 251 min read

Vector Graphic Exercise (1950s Record Labels)

Seeing as it's the 65th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, I thought I'd re-create the test/white pressing & 1st...

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Richard Littler

Aug 51 min read

Bruegel/NASA Mashup

Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975). It's...

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Richard Littler

Jul 211 min read

More Vector Bosch

Here's another exercise that attempts to suggest paint with vector graphics exclusively (Affinity Designer). I chose a favourite detail...

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Richard Littler

Jul 181 min read

Ascent of the Blessed (Snoopy)

This is just a rough exercise that attempts to approximate the look of paint in a completely vector graphic environment. I've re-created...

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Richard Littler

Jul 131 min read

"Clothes Pegs... of the Future"

I had a dream last night that I was a celebrated entrepreneur in the early 1980s, and I launched a trendy, cool, cutting-edge ad campaign...

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Richard Littler

Jul 61 min read

Vector Graphic Marble

Vector graphics marble test using Affinity Designer (and Inkscape for its raster-vector tracing function, which Affinity Designer doesn't...

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Richard Littler

Jun 201 min read

My Family's First Record Player

This illustration of my family's first record player was just a vector graphics exercise. It's a PrinzSound Stereo System 6 with a...

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Richard Littler

Jun 191 min read

Game Graphics for Still Wakes the Deep.

Last year, I was approached byThe Chinese Room, a UK video game developer who were making a horror survival game set on an oil platform...

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Richard Littler

Jun 21 min read

Altrincham Hippodrome/Studio 1/Cannon

I recently drew one of the cinemas of my childhood, Sale Odeon, which you can see here. This is the other cinema I frequently visited,...

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Richard Littler

May 282 min read

Sale Odeon/Pyramid

This is another drawing that I've created purely as a distraction while I'm trying to write, or, rather, playing with fiddling graphics...

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Richard Littler

May 181 min read

BBC 12 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

A while back, I re-created a graphic that featured in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was a very minor graphic in the...

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Richard Littler

Apr 81 min read

Digi-Doodle

I tend to doodle detailed faces while I'm thinking over ideas for stories. Apparently other writers also do this, or rather they have...

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Richard Littler

Apr 21 min read

Vector Graphic Processing Test

I created this vector graphic and piled on the details, including vector textures, to see how much my computer (and Affinity Designer)...

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Richard Littler

Mar 271 min read

Protest In the Old Town

A new illustration in the linocut style.

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Richard Littler

Mar 181 min read

Mid-Century Illustration

I've long been a fan of graphic artist Edward Bawden (1903-1989), so thought I'd try to draw something roughly in his style. It took way...

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Richard Littler

Mar 181 min read

Vector Graphic Test

I've been playing around with Affinity Designer. I don't normally create photorealistic vector graphics, so thought I'd give it a go....

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Richard Littler

Mar 12 min read

AI Can't Create This...

Recently, I set out to create new digital artwork that can't be replicated/imitated by AI. It seems to me that AI's Achilles heel is its...

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Richard Littler

Feb 101 min read

White City, Manchester

My grandfather used to work here, so I thought I'd draw an image of White City's gates. It started life as a botanical garden in the...

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Richard Littler

Dec 29, 20231 min read

The London Nobody Knows

I've long been a fan of the 1967 documentary The London Nobody Knows in which James Mason introduces the viewer to less salubrious areas...

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