Back on the Blog

Hi everyone....anyone?

Sorry, it has been a while since my last blog post. I am trying to get more artwork up here on a more regular basis. I have been really busy doing whiteboard animation work. I'm thinking about a whole new website, this one is about 5 years old and getting a bit stale.

Anyway I am going to kick it off with a few repeating patterns I have been getting into.

Layered Landscape

Here is another in the layered landscape theme. I was trying to get it as bright and saturated as possible but still easy to read...

5 levels of complication

 I have been doing some more work on repeating patterns and tonal tiles. This tile has 5 levels of tone and can be put together to make pretty interesting patterns.

Here I took a tiny photo of guitarist Keith Richards and reworked in into a big tonal portrait. It would be great to make this as a giant wall mural using octagonal tiles. I am making a few more portraits to get the procedure more streamlined.

Scraps

I am really fascinated by making these sort of shapes. I think I first saw something like this done by Saul Steinberg from back in the 50's.

It is a sort of abstract construction, random shapes that looks like something solid but don't really add up to anything specific... I call them Scraps. Anyway, I had fun shading and colouring it and thought I should do more of these, maybe even try and make a little sculpture or some repeating patterns.

Big Roo Road

Here are a couple of sneak peeks at what may be the biggest, most detailed drawing i have done for years. I worked on it on weekends over summer.

The big Roo Road is all about details, everything is in focus like a pattern and it is also a bit narrative with a single character moving through the landscape. I haven't quite finished it but here are some details...

Queen Purpuss digital book cover

Here is a book cover I painted over the summer for Author Robert Lawsons digital  fantasy novel - The short reign of Queen Purpuss the 40th. It was fun getting all the cat fur painted in.

Geometric man

Hello, I've been a bit busy chasing work to post lately but have been doing all sorts of artwork. Hopefully I can get some of it up in the next little while...

Colour and thick outlines

Another simple vector bush background

Spending some spare time coming up with new and easier ways to make simple, bold bush landscapes in illustrator... Oh and designing more roo characters of course.

A few autoportraits

I am busy applying for jobs and so need to update my business card. I have been playing with a few self-portraits...might be a bit cartoony for a business card though. Would you employ this creep?

Oinky Beach

Here is little oinky piglet on the beach. Just trying out some new quick illustrator tricks...