Am redoing my Alice in wonderland book cover. So expect bare images.

destroy

Gawjus

Decked

This post has been a long time coming, but I promise I've been very busy! I have alot of work to shove up on here and can't wait to do so. One of the projects I was working on was part of the Decked exhibition, it was really fun to work on a piece like this. It was a bit of an experiment, and while it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. It was very personal to me. A big thank you to vicky and ej for letting me put it up at the show, you can see the other decks (some are dead awesome) here .So dedicated to all my dead cats...

Cannibal Holocaust

Awesome music to insane brutality- love it.

Pigeons, Sewage and Collage

So I had a dream where a large number of pigeons were sexually attacking me, like they were in heat. It was really strange but definately had some great imagery. There was sewage too. Been trying to collage a bit more as I felt a bit creatively stuck. I think Ive been too concerned about the audience I'm illustrating for, rather than making something I like and want to enjoy. So now isnt a great time to challenge myself with the amount of work I have on- but I have to!

PS- Photo by Roe Etheridge.
PPS- I promise to post more work soon

First Illustration for Book Cover

So heres what I came up with so far, today I also laid it out in indesign. But I can't upload a indd file so heres the basic illustration I'm working on at the minute. I may take it further but I'll decide that tomorrow. Also experimented with the colour of it.

Alice in Wonderland Book Cover

I decided to design for Alice in Wonderland. I thought this may be a mistake due to the imagery already surrounding the story being so famous. But I tried to use this to my advantage.

I want to create a darker version of the cover, to pick up on the adult fans of the book. I want to echo the style of the famous illustrations as ignoring them would be stupid.

Heavy Pencil

So on Thursday (1st) I went along to the ICA, with a bunch of great people to have an awsome night. Infact the night was so awesome I could have not taken my friends and still enjoyed it, but its best to have company when your getting drunk and avoid the regular drunk label. Anyway the event was Heavy Pencil, its a monthly event(shamefully this was the first one I'd ever been to) and it was also the first anniversary! YAY! Well done heavy pencil!
There was mucho drawing, on big projectors (artists and designers were invired to draw live under cameras which was then projected, I got a go at it and it was super duper fun), there was a large drawing table with a few sheets of paper that covered the whole table and a live band, Django Django, and DJs! Django Django were great, and as I got ore and more drunk, the more and more I danced, they really complimented the activities...not that slugdy death metal wouldn't have but Django Django were most definately a good choice. Now onto the photos...

Stuff I Like

Well I've been working on stuff, in general, I also spent a while feeling sorry formyself and watching the entire sex and the city dvd collection, followed by the movie, thats right- I'm lame. So while feeling sorry for myself, I've been planning stuff and looking at stuff and working on a metal logo (fun and not what i usually do) so heres some stuff i like.

Just some new work , I be a workin' on

So yeah number 1 is an unfinished painting, but its getting close to being completed now with just some line work to go...
The queen bee piece is in the process of being painted (extremely early stages!)
ermm..the robot was a thing i sketched out while doing a toy for my friend chucks birthday present, I'm thinking of taking this further...very anti-eco but I'd been bombarded by eco friendly artwork just before at an exhibition I went to.
Ermmm also some colour test on cryig kids faces, for another piece I'm slowly working towards...yeah! I think thats all I need to explain!

Don't Wait For Your Ship, Swim To It...

This was my piece for the JUMP THE SHARK end of year illustration show....rockin...

New sketch stuff

I've promised myself to be a bit more patient with my work. So everyday (as long as I'm not hungover, dead or in a gutter)I will be ding a heavily detailed drawing in my sketchbook. Mainly just to see where it will take me and hopefully have some profound effect on the way I work. Who knows? Anyway, heres 2 so far, unfortunately the sketchbook i piced for this project is rather awkward to scan, but a lovely size if I do say so myself!

Puppet Head

My johnnie puppet so far, made from fimo.

Sketchbook so far

Ive been doing character developement and thinking more and more about my animation storyboard but am still stuck as I'm not sure what medium I will be using for the animation, so I dont know what is and isnt possible. I'm definately looking down the puppetry/stop motion route as I really enjoy animations made in this way (quay brothers for one).
Anyway onto some developement work.

Typography in my animation?

typography by Gemme Correll,
thinking about typography in my animation maybe that is made up of images like this to illustrate and be a bit more dynamic, maybe a bit to much though in a moving animation????

The Oxford Poster

New elephants stuff

designed some tote bags and tshirts for elephants

newwww flyer!

Pretty self explanatory for this guy here