Pete uses biro

iusebiro is things by Pete Foley - he's an animator


New gallery system is G.O. LET'S GO!

Just click the big blue header to be hurtled through cyberspace to my new and darn special gallery index. Everything is up (bar a few items that I have to get from Woomp once it's back up). There's quite a bit of new stuff up there too.

On a quick Photoshop note - why isn't the wonder that is Luma Selection (
⌘+⌥+` ...or ctrl+alt+tilde in Win) clearly documented?!?
Had I have known of this little trick sooner it would have saved me HOURS of angst fighting with linework, transparency and those nasty artifacts...

Comments are fixed now


I don't know how long it's been like that (probably even since I changed layout), but the comment system was broken :( but I've fixed it now.

Reworking the galleries (and a decent sized post)


Here's a few new pics; this one's a bit more finished (ie coloured) than my usual fare,
maybe it's time I put more time in...anyhoo, I've slightly changed the
header up there and added a big link to my galleries - it's taking you to
Woomp at the moment but that will be all
changed once I've finished making my own - easy to find and navigate
gallery. It'll be up soon... with new work in 'em too! ^_^

This pic I did up this afternoon; "The End of a Day's Work".
The poor guy was working on a model ship and ...well, you can
see it's gone and broken on him. I'm really getting used to
working entirely in biro and then just tweaking that in Photoshop,
seperating the linework into layers that are colourable.

I'm finding that I have a running theme with dashes of colour
behind a characters head... and I seem to dislike drawing
any backgrounds don't I?

Hand studies

Ophelia update.


Amongst the other work Ophelia marches forward. The third (and final!)
version of the animatic is completed. And while my quality of animatic
production isn't up to public display here's the opening shot;
pitch black - then "click", the narrator turns on the moon.




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