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1960s/70s Poster Painting Style Test
I have a mild obsession with film poster painting style from the 1960s and 1970s, but never really thought to try it myself. I chose...

Richard Littler
Nov 14, 20241 min read


Twin Peaks Paint Test
Leland Palmer, played by Ray Wise, from David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Painted mostly in Krita with a couple of minor tweaks in Affinity.

Richard Littler
Nov 8, 20241 min read


William S. Burroughs Sketch
I tend to doodle, scribble and sketch when I'm anxious (see the US election). Here's one of author of William Burroughs who said, in his...

Richard Littler
Nov 7, 20241 min read


Unfinished Image #2799
Yet another image I probably won't have the patience to finish. Bruno S. in Werner Herzog's Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle ( The...

Richard Littler
Nov 6, 20241 min read


Rocket Man (No, Not Elton John)
Just a sketch to test out some new Krita brushes.

Richard Littler
Nov 4, 20241 min read


Lost Halloween Film Posters...
Here’s a selection of rare, 1960s-1980 horror double-bills you may have missed at the time: Dawn of the Bod, Play School, Emus of the...

Richard Littler
Oct 31, 20241 min read


Latest Misty Pylon Photos
All were photographed during a recent trip to Valais.

Richard Littler
Oct 1, 20241 min read


Photo Dump #3 (Details & Textures)
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...

Richard Littler
Sep 3, 20241 min read


Photo Dump #2 (Clouds & Mist)
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...

Richard Littler
Sep 3, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Sep 3, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Aug 25, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Aug 5, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Jul 21, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Jul 18, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Jul 13, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Jul 6, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Jun 20, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
Jun 19, 20241 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,...

Richard Littler
Jun 2, 20241 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...

Richard Littler
May 28, 20242 min read
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