ross cuthbert illustration

2012-01-06T10:54:00.001Z

environment concepts for a short animation.

2012-01-06T10:51:00.000Z

Characters designed an illustrated for personal project.

2012-01-06T10:37:00.000Z

another couple of digital paintings for personal projects.

2012-01-06T10:16:00.003Z

A couple of digital paintings for personal projects.

2011-05-26T13:04:00.000Z

Face painted in photoshop from sketch.

2011-04-05T08:52:00.010Z

Concepts painted in photoshop

2011-04-04T10:01:00.001Z

A bit of fun painting in photoshop.

2011-02-15T12:32:00.009Z

A couple of 3d specimen pieces produced in Lightwave 3d and Photoshop. Unfortunately I am unable to take credit for the wireframe of the McLaren which was pre-built.

2011-02-15T11:40:00.003Z

A series of backgrounds produced using Lightwave 3d and photoshop for a large Gold Blend animatic. The project ran for about two weeks if I remember rightly and miraculously we saw the finished ad on tv and the internet about three and a half weeks later.

2011-02-15T11:39:00.000Z

Concept visual for Crown paints, produced using photo-montage and photoshop painting.

2011-02-15T11:38:00.003Z

Concept of a gong style award for Fosters - produced using Lightwave 3d.

2011-02-15T11:34:00.005Z

Vector artwork illustration for East Midlands Trains. Produced using Illustrator.

2011-02-15T11:32:00.001Z

A selection of visuals for Malibu - produced using Photoshop.

More work from early 2010

2011-02-15T11:26:00.003Z

A selection of concept visuals produced using Lightwave, Photo-montage and digital painting.

Spots v's Stripes event sponsored by Cadbury's
Travelodge
Harrington FTI
Jameson
Heineken

Work from about a year ago.

2011-02-15T11:09:00.009Z

A series of black and white visuals for Blackrock made up of numerals.

Photo-montage and digitally painted storyboard frames for Axe shower-gel

Storyboard coloured in photoshop for Terry's chocolate orange - Linework by Bill Bradshaw.

An early doodle done in photoshop for a character design to feature on a website. We ended up with a design a little more removed from the pixar cars generic look.

2010-11-25T10:22:00.002Z

Digital painting using photoshop natural and dry brushes.

2010-10-21T12:18:00.003Z

Character designed and coloured in Illustrator and photoshop.
Produced for Cargo Creative and their client Town Centre Citoren.

2010-10-21T12:16:00.002Z

Concept visual for B&Q (linework courtesy of Bill Bradshaw) coloured in photoshop.

2010-10-21T12:14:00.001Z

Concept to turn the O2 arena into a cricket ground produced in Photoshop.

2010-10-21T12:07:00.004Z

Photo montage and digital paint storyboards and visuals produced for Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.

2010-10-21T11:58:00.003Z

Series of visuals produced using Daz, Lightwave 3d and Photoshop for trident chewing gum.

2010-08-10T13:46:00.001Z

3d conceptual visuals produced in Lightwave 3d and photoshop.

2010-08-10T08:53:00.003Z

2 illustrations produced in vector format for Keltie-Cochrane and NHS North East.
I lost a few hours of my life doing these as they were fairly time consuming. They were eventually handed over to be animated and can be seen here http://www.northeast.nhs.uk/careers/
Just completed work on another illustration done in the same style, This one features a Theme Park, commissioned by a different client. I'll be uploading that sometime in the future.

2010-08-10T08:51:00.000Z

X-ray styled visual of skeleton running produced in Daz Studio and Lightwave 3d

2010-08-10T08:48:00.001Z

Visual of plasticine man produced in lightwave for 'fit for life campaign' ad.

2010-08-10T08:43:00.000Z

Series of 3d visuals produced for Vicks point of sale packaging concepts

2010-08-09T11:49:00.001Z

Interior 3d render created within Lightwave.

2010-08-06T09:38:00.000Z

3d interior produced in Lightwave

2009-12-22T16:31:00.002Z

Series of visuals produced using 3d and photoshop for Ballantines Whisky.

2009-12-22T16:23:00.003Z

CGI visual of a hall produced for an upcoming event - Russian being the general theme. A background photo of the venue was supplied and all the elements within were produced within 3d or photoshop.

2009-12-22T16:20:00.002Z

A selection from a set of many 3d cgi visuals/Artworks produced for NatWest.
Created using Lightwave 3d and Photoshop.

2009-12-22T16:08:00.002Z

A couple of storyboards produced using photoshop - Many thanks to Gareth from Plum Illustration for the modeling!

2009-12-22T15:54:00.000Z

Couple of visuals produced for Jacobs Coffee using Photoshop

2009-12-22T15:48:00.003Z

Set of visuals created for Currys using Photoshop.

2009-12-22T15:37:00.003Z

A couple of illustrations produced using ye old trusted Photoshop and Painter.
- Photo's were provided by client and Getty Images from what I remember. The brief was to make them look as closely as I could manage to oil paintings without getting my hands dirty with real paint.

2009-12-22T15:21:00.005Z

A couple of colour visuals produced in Photoshop.

2009-12-22T15:11:00.005Z

A couple of black and white line only visuals worked on with local company Keltie Cochrane, check out some of the great work on their site - www.keltiecochrane.com

3d interiors

2009-09-01T09:08:00.007Z

Home interior illustration produced for SKY TV detailing the correct way to set up a home cinema system. Created in Lightwave and Photoshop.

Recently, I have been working on a few 3d interior render specimen pieces in downtime as I have been asked a number of times in the last few years for samples. So here goes, the following were all created in Lightwave 3d... of course!..... and a little photoshop here and there.

2009-08-28T13:01:00.001Z

A series of artworks created in Illustrator using brand colours for East Midlands Trains. Artworks featured on website and billboards.

more advertising samples from 2008

2009-08-28T12:44:00.003Z

TV storyboard concept for Special 'K' ad

2 concept visuals for Thomas Cook ads

Series of advertising concept posters for Perrier created using photoshop

A series of plasticine morph style characters created for the uk 'fit for life' campaign created using Lightwave 3d, photoshop was used to create the bump texture for the 3d models.

Series of advertising concept posters for the promotion of milk

Advertising poster for LG created in photoshop and Lightwave 3d

Visual for Timotei created using Daz 3d, Lightwave, 3d coat and Photoshop

Bits of advertising work from 2008

2009-08-28T12:16:00.004Z

press ad created in photoshop for Twinnings Tea

storyboarded sequence to visualize Twinnings train concept

Twinings storyboard for tv ad created using photoshop

Storyboard sequence created using photoshop and Lightwave 3d for Direct line designed in the style of a 'mario karts' game

Series of concept visuals for Ariel completed over the weekend, pencil sketched

2009-04-28T12:59:00.002Z

Storyboard for Philadelphia produced using 3d software and photoshop.

2009-04-28T12:57:00.001Z

Storyboard for Baileys tv ad concept produced last year using Photoshop.

2009-04-28T12:54:00.001Z

3 visuals created within photoshop for Kingsmill bread advertising concept.

2009-04-28T12:51:00.001Z

2 colour visuals created for Twinnings tea advertising concept, using Photoshop again.

2009-04-28T12:48:00.003Z

Painterly photo-comp storyboards for Rimmel ads created using photoshop.

2009-03-17T12:54:00.003Z

Another digital painting of WW2 American landing craft. Created using Lightwave and photoshop

2009-03-11T22:37:00.002Z

Just a photoshop sketch done this evening utilizing some of photoshops fab dry brushes - purely for my own gratification! inspiration from band of brothers and private ryan.

Misc projects from 2007

2009-02-27T15:42:00.004Z

Graphic visual produced for TFL ad

Sewer environment produced and animated in 3d for a short film worked on with Mark Jobe and David Hails

3d impression detailing developments of a new timber mill for BSW Timber

Vector based illustrations for a calendar based on strange national days which feature each month. National 'wear a plunger on your head day' 'National hot dog day' and 'National sci fi day'

A series of screen grabs from an animation produced of a modern home with cut away styled floors.

Illustration produced in 3d for Bradley O'Mahoney Creative

Storyboards 2007

2009-02-27T15:33:00.003Z

A selection of storyboards from 2007

CG sequence for Imogas

Alternative CG sequence for Imogas

Digitally painted Storyboard produced in Photoshop for Sunsilk (Big thanks to my sister for the modeling)

Digital painted storyboard for Knorr

S/b produced for Jacobs coffee ad

Web based stuff.

2009-02-27T15:02:00.005Z

A selection of illustration work produced for web based projects

Logo concept for 10create produced in Lightwave 3d

3d illy of mug and tea bag for local recruitment agency

Vector illustrations produced in Illustrator for BBC bitesize

Vector illys produced for profit access

Pool girl illustration made using illustrator for K+C

Girl illys for K+C

TKO character designed and produced in 3d for website

Characters designed and created for flash animation on website

Vector illustration produced for main screen of web based sports game

Vector illustrations of characters designed and created for a web based game anti-bullying

Backgrounds for the same game mentioned (above)

A selection of hat icons produced using illustrator

Concept visuals from 2007

2009-02-27T13:58:00.008Z

A selection of concept visuals completed on various projects throughout the year, using the usual, Photoshop and lightwave 3d.

Photoshop visual for Toshiba

Particle mixing machine 3d concept

Concept visuals for Royal Bank of Scotland

Concept visual for promoting recycling for energy

Porsche award 3d conncept

Award concept produced using Lightwave and Daz 3d

Photoshop visual for Hyundai poster concept

Another visual for Hyundai poster concept

Visual produced using Lightwave for Hyundai poster concept

Detachable limbs for scuba sub(below)

3d visual produced for Fosters

Yacht race visual, coloured in photoshop and linework produced by Bill Bradshaw

A selection of Photoshop painted visuals for Sunsilk concept

Concept sketches for Angus Young character for DVD sleeve

Advertising Storyboards

2009-02-26T17:35:00.005Z

And finally a hand full of storyboards for DVLA, Knorr and Toyota. The Toyota and Knorr boards were a collaborative effort between Bill Bradshaw, Richard Osley and myself.

Advertising Concept Visuals

2009-02-26T17:18:00.006Z

A selection of visuals produced for various products/advertising agencies. Software used Photoshop and Lightwave 3d.

3d Packaging concepts

2009-02-26T17:07:00.003Z

A selection of packaging and merchandise visuals produced using Lightwave 3d and photoshop.

Samples of work from 2007

2009-02-26T16:38:00.008Z

Ok, I'm now officially apologising to my neglected blog as its been a while since I last added anything onto this. But I do have a good excuse, no I'm not dead! I have been busy with work and family life. Family life now consisting of my two beautiful girls Isla now 22 months and Eva 4 months, they are the apples of my eyes... my very black eyes due to lack of good quality sleep. Anyway here goes! p.s. some of this stuff is pretty ancient now.... sorry!

I'm gonna try and summarize this lot (otherwise we'll be on all day) by just adding that is a selection of work from 2007. It varies from photoshop concept visuals, 3d packaging concepts and some storyboard stuff.

First up a few artworks, there's not much to add really. The flat vector landscapes were for a British train network, the cartoon chef was an artwork done in a hurry for the cover of a folder for a local packaging company. Finally the bird cartoon was done to be printed on a mouse mat and the fox was for Speckled Hen ale.

Up up and away

2006-10-26T11:02:00.000Z

Recent illustration work for B&Q current advertising campaign. Artwork produced using Lightwave and photoshop.

Latest sample

2006-10-25T19:39:00.000Z

A couple of people have said to me that the character bits are their favourites, so I decided to try and get a few more sample illy's done like this, whilst its quiet. This is one I did today inspired from a conversation I had the other evening with a freind who was telling me that his boy's were getting into a bit of bother at school.

concept sketch

2006-10-23T13:47:00.000Z

fairly quiet on the workfront at the mo so Ive moved on from my Pirate phase and into my War phase, obvioustly still in my blue phase though. Made a concept sketch of a burnt out tank done in photoshop as you do - what more can I say!

ho ho ho and a bottle of rum!!!!

2006-10-11T23:11:00.000Z

Its ages since I did any specimen samples, so here's a pirate character I sketched in Illustrator and rendered in Photoshop done just for the fun of it! and I dedicate it to Andrew Glazebrook for saying I never put anything up here... which is kinda true, so here you are Andrew, this ones for you!

Childrens Books

2006-10-11T17:25:00.000Z

A selection of pages from a series of childrens books I worked on in collaboration with Mark jobe and Philip Pepper last year.

Christmas stuff

2006-08-10T19:07:00.000Z

Just finished working for a company locally who design xmas decorations for shopping Centres, didnt get the chance to burn a lot of stuff to cd to take away when I'd finished so this is just a brief selection of the sort of thing we get involved with, designs for Santa's grotto's to 3d animated concepts for suspended decorations. The work is pretty varied as are the deadlines depending on how busy they are, so some stuff is rough, other stuff I get the chance to use the 3d package to get a better finish. Every day working there is like christmas - not sure if thats a good thing!!

Recent work

2006-06-27T21:37:00.001Z

Been working on a series of illustrations recently for a brochure, all rendered in photoshop. Its been a nice change to get my teeth into some artworks rather than concept stuff which usually makes up most of my work diet. Its been a bit of a push to get em done on time and my eyes are as black as coal from the late nights/early mornings, but I think they're finally finished thank god!

More Stuff

2006-05-19T09:37:00.000Z

Been a while since I was on as works been getting in the way as usual and a system failure on my Macintosh - Yes Macintosh, first one since I bought it about 4 or five years so not bad really, pesky computers!
Anyway, just been trawling the memory for more stuff to update the blog as its been ages since I added anything, dug out a few more samples - A real mixture of stuff from ad roughs and concepts to artwork. Still cant put anything up Ive worked on in the past couple of months so nothing exciting but there you go!

The top one is a visual for an ad agency advertising I used lightwave for the piston and photoshoped the rest, it was a pretty tight deadline (ie an evening) so I didnt have a great deal of time to go to work on the surface textures and its probably pretty rough if you look close enough.

The little ninja was a sketch I did for my brother in law who wanted a little character to make into a sticker for his motorbike. would have liked to work this one up into artwork, but it never went any further.

The next was an illustration for a callendar I did some time ago it was for the month of December and was to represent 'new years resolution' The client wanted quite a basic style like the drawings on the back of the cards on aeroplanes explaning how to escape a plane crash into the ocean......yeah right!

The next one was for the same job, cant recall what the idea behind this one was now, obviously something to do with old women and the Hokey-Cokey I'll leave it at that. These were done in illustrator, ideal for that nice clean line.

The next was just a rough for an ad and was hand sketched and rendered in photoshop.

The next was a small artwork for a...you guessed it...Christmas card, this was the cover and inside the card was a 'colour by numbers style outline drawing of the front cover' and each pequin represented a different employee, Santa being the company director of course.

The last few were character concepts Lucifer and Jed were developments of characters I worked on the these with Mark Jobe, check out his blog in the links, the Mr Incredibles rip off was an illustration to feature on the side of a van for a client who had set himself up in business ironing other peoples clothes and he's called iron man, hence the shape of his face!

The black and white illustration of the boys face was done in illustrator and was for another callendar for a printing company, the final illustration the boy had a bright red spot on the end of his nose, and the title for this one was 'Spot Colour' all of the illustrations were based on printing termimology.

Natural mediums

2006-04-15T22:37:00.000Z

Well its all looking a bit digitally so Ive posted up a few bits Ive done without pressing a single key on my mac. I really should get more stuff like this done I'm starting to feel a bit guilty!

Ad...vertising...Mad...vertising

2006-04-15T21:55:00.000Z

Did loads of work for ad agencies whilst in London, mostly concepts with a few artworks thrown in for good measure. Met some great Illustrators whilst working down south and learnt loads from them. Many of them had been in the business for twenty years plus so pretty experienced. Real old school stuff and I mean that in a good way, no digital just magic markers and paint! no disrespect to the digital stuff... the revolution of the digital era is a marvellous thing and it does take great skill and knowledge to produce good stuff but when the pressures on to hit a deadline and theres no undo key youve got to be good and they were! They were a real inspiration for me and although I'm still a long way off being able to compare myself to them in terms of ability, they brought out my competative edge and I wanted to be as good as them. Its a shame many of them dissapeared after the macs came in in a big way, but I think most of them are still doing creative stuff. I hope they are all still well.

I owe a lot to those who gave me a chance at the studio, its a competative industry to get a foothold in and when I look back at some of the stuff I did for them when I first started out it makes me cringe. Advertising work seems to have crazy deadlines but the money was mosltly pretty good. I think a lot of my hair fell out when I worked in London, but at least you could probably afford a good surgeon to put it all back in.

Here's some advertising samples, some new and some old....er mostly digital!

Misc digital work

2006-04-15T21:34:00.000Z

Dont have much to say about these really! just various jobs done using illustrator and photoshop.

The discovery of Lightwave 3d

2006-04-15T21:18:00.000Z

I discovered Lightwave about 6 or seven years ago - Brill software, Its also helped with the illustration work to. I know it sounds a bit sad but it makes you think how light reflects of different surfaces and how shadows are cast with different light sources. I'll end this post here before I get too deep! and I'm making myself sound real loser anyway here's a few samples.

Concept Sketchwork

2006-04-15T20:46:00.001Z

I'm like most other 32year old blokes, I still love my playstation, a couple of years ago I put together a portfolio of concept sketchwork for the games industry as it was an area which I had not really explored but was really interested in. Lack of experience with 3d studio max seemed to halt me from making any real progress even though I was only really looking for 2d artist stuff. I'd really like to do more of this kind of stuff as you get the chance to let your imagination go mental. Anyway these are just a few samples from the portfolio.

Architectural Stuff

2006-04-13T23:00:00.000Z

Got into the 3d stuff many years ago and I'm currently using Lightwave 3d. Great bit of software it renders pretty quickly now, so quickly that Ive even used it for concept and advertising stuff which have notoriously short deadlines. Ive been getting a few architectural illustrations to do since moving back up, time consuming work building all the meshes but puts the bread on the table. Its been a while since I did these so hopefully it'll be safe to post them up now.

Greetings Cards

2006-04-13T21:34:00.000Z

Every now and then a job comes along which you know is right up your street. I particularly enjoy doing illustration work for greetings cards. Its something I'd like to get into a little more if I possibly can. Here's a small collection of previous greetings card stuff.

The first is a set of postcards based on famous movie cars.

The second is a full set of greetings cards depicting the twelve chinese star signs.

The third image is a selection of four from a set of twelve postcards for a company who provide proffessional training.

These last two sets were cards I was working on for myself about a year ago when I'd just re-located and work was a little thin on the ground. I needed to generate a bit of income so I did these. I was planning on sending them off to a few publishers to see if I could sell them but work picked up and they ended up sitting on my harddrive. I forgot all about them until I started looking back through for some samples so if there is anybody out there involved with greetings cards who is interested in publishing any of them please get in touch, they're all worked up to artwork reolution.

Hello Blog

2006-04-13T11:50:00.000Z

Call me old fashioned or just plain lazy! I don't know why its taken me so long to get some of my stuff posted up online but following a conversation I had this evening with a good friend of mine I decided to plunge in with the rest of you. He said to me 'Good God Ross. Your art doesn't belong to you it belongs to the world, the good people have a right to see what you've been up to' ..... alright so I made that last bit up.

Recent Projects

2006-04-12T19:29:00.000Z

Most of the work I did when I lived in London was for the advertising industry, consisting of storyboard work for TV ad campaigns and visuals for print. After moving back to the North East I have been involved in a good variety of projects from motion graphics for a music video to children's book illustrations for a leading UK publisher. I enjoy experiencing new avenues for work which keeps the day to day stuff pretty exciting. I am currently working with a local company whom specialize in Christmas decorations and events for shopping centres throughout the UK. The day to day work involves producing concept drawings and design to finished illustration for print.