April Buttress - Clockwork Studios

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Clockwork Creatures

Tower battle

Gouache painting 'Tower battle' is a painting exploring the story of my character, Rascal. This painting represents how Rascal has to beat the evil that has overrun the tower by himself. In this piece, I wanted to use the contrast between dark and bright colours to make Rascal's figure a

3D Printing Featured

The Five

3D printed figures The Five is a set of five characters that have come from an ongoing creative world that I have worked on since the beginning of 2021. This world is a dark and twisted spin on the Steampunk style of gears and mechanics. This world has provided a

Lino Prints

These prints were another exploration of Lino cutting and printmaking. I wanted to explore more detailed single colour prints, so I the second set of characters to explore their personalities through printmaking. I decided to add the shimmer ink as highlights when I wasn’t happy with the final plain

Character Concepts

Clockwork Creatures

Character Concepts

This is a series of Digital Prints exploring my original characters. These pieces were inspired images in the Disney: The Magic of Animation Exhibition at ACMI, where concept art for Mickey and Minnie mouse were shown. The way they were presented inspired me to try the style with my own

Clockwork Creatures

Life of Jester

This is a series of 10 paintings depicting the story of one of my characters Jester. With these paintings, I wanted to tell the story of when Jester found his friends in the clock tower then an evil coming and taking over. I really wanted to focus on keeping a

Concept Art Series 2

Clockwork Creatures

Concept Art Series 2

6 June 2021 Gouache Rascal, Squeaklings, Pop, Krit and Quincy This is the second series of concept art for my clockwork world. This set of five characters belong and live in the same world as the original five. For these I wanted to create more of the world that I

Clockwork Creatures

Welcome to the Clocktower

This was a dive into digital animation. This was a collaboration with the sound production artist Oliva Atkinson-Ladic. The aim of this was to be able to bring my characters to life in a simple setting and to introduce them in their world. Bringing life to my character makes it

My Tree of Life

My Tree of Life

Gouache on canvas For this piece I wanted to try representing my life and the connection I have to things around me and the things I create. This painting depicts the tree of life or Yggrasil, this tree is surrounded by many different creatures of Greek mythology, some representing aspects

Jester and Jackie

Jester and Jackie

Screen printing on fabric and paper These pieces are simple experiments into a medium I want to try out. I love the idea of printmaking and being able to learn all different ways of producing them is something I continuously explore. I experimented with simple designs on paper and on