About me

I'm an artist from Barbados. I love creating landscape and scifi inspired art and illustrations. Check out my website for more art and my youtube channel for a daily art reveal. Website: https://thisisrouse.com Youtube: ThisisRouse

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• I've recently been learning a new style of digital painting. What do you think?
• Hi again, need some more suggestions, name this piece...
• Title suggestions? I like Ironwood

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Projects

• Canyon FodderBlack White Digital Drawing
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  Ironwood ForestHi again, learning Clip Studio Paint again, today's illustration brief was: -Forest full of massive trees -Implied path -River rambling through tree roots -Waterfall What are your thoughts?
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  Hidden PathNew Digital Painting practice session. Follow the path to collect the magical plant. The brief -mysterious cave -dark but with moody lighting -mostly warm colours but with single blue flower -flower is a focal point- use composition to lead eye to flower
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  The people of 3020The people of 3020 are all living on various earth colonies and settlements scattered throughout our solar system. Many thems and theys. This is a companion series to the original Year 3020 illustrations. These illustrations started as a way to practice digital drawing during September and Inktober 2021. But the project morphed and took a life of its own. These are all digital pieces, made using Blender Grease Pencil. The project is ongoing…
• Barbados Ink IllustrationWhile I'm at home in Barbados I like to draw various plants around my house. I collected some references and decided to do two larger pieces using an old poem and a story I heard from several friends and my parents.
• Experimental PostersDuring the last few months I started making some random digital collages of pictures, text and drawings I had abandoned. Most of them were unfinished and just sitting around in folders on my computer. I'm still trying to figure out how to best use GIMP in my work but I learned a lot from this exercise.

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Work history

IllustratorWhere the Leaves Fall
May 2020Birmingham, United KingdomFreelance
I create editorial illustrations to accompany stories and articles for WTLF quarterly magazine.

Skills

• Academic Research
• Production Admin
• Illustration
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator

Education

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Civil Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Birmingham
Jun 2015 - Dec 2019Birmingham, United Kingdom
PhD in Civil Engineering