Midsummer Night's Madness - Illustration Friday

'Midsummer Night's Madness' is from the Snakeskin Sketchbook series.
This piece was inspired by the Illustration Friday suggested topic 'Midsummer Night'.
"Why this is very midsummer madness" - William Shakespeare.
I couldn't go past this quote without thinking of a good bungy jump on a warm summer's eve and thinking about holidaying in Queenstown New Zealand.
The technique is a combination of crosshatch ink drawing and a digitally created textural background made with photoshop filters over an Illustrator created background. Print available at Redbubble.

'Launch' - Illustration Friday

Swoop is from the Snakeskin Sketchbook series.
This piece was inspired by the Illustration Friday suggested topic 'Launch'.
The technique is a combination of crosshatch ink drawing and a digitally created textural background meshed with photography. Print available at Redbubble and Artflakes.

ARTFLAKES - Prints now available in Europe

Some people have been enquiring about buying prints direct in Europe. I've now joined up with Artflakes so that they are available to a wider audience. I am only making the Snakeskin Sketchbook series available at this point. These are giclée prints available as framed prints, canvas prints, poster prints, the very cool gallery print and as cards.

A Little Bird told me

'A Little Bird told me' is another from the Snakeskin Sketchbook series.
Stories make the world go round and somebody here has been told some intriguing information.
Ink on paper, digital background.
Print available.

Swept Up, Illustration Friday

'Swept Up' is from the Snakeskin Sketchbook series. This piece was stimulated by the Illustration Friday suggested topic "Swept'. This is a combination of crosshatch ink drawing and a digitally created background.

Print is available from Redbubble.com

Snakeskin sketchbook 5

I've been pursuing the Snakeskin Sketchbook series quite rampantly of late. It is evolving as it goes in the original sketches themselves. It is also evolving as the finished prints become more complex in their background textures.

I'm posting a number here that are showing the framed prints available on the Redbubble site.

Illustration Friday - A shadow of my former self

'Shadow of My Former Self' is from the Snakeskin Sketchbook series. I've taken the original drawing, that I called 'Feeling It', added the tension of the looming oppressing unknown object at the top. The character finds itself under it's unknown shadowing , perhaps his former self, presence.
The stimulation for this particular version came from the idea 'Shadows' from Illustration Friday.
Print available at Redbubble.

Drawing Day 2011 - Road Rage

'Road Rage', Another drawing from the Snakeskin Sketchbook and an image submitted to Drawing Day 2011.
'Precious Life' also appears there.

Redbubble has featured Road Rage on their homepage. Very nice.

IA A3 Print Show 2011

"Precious Life' is presented here as a giclée print originally created for the Illustrators Australia A3 Print Show 2011 and is from the Snakeskin Sketchbook series of drawings. The IA A3 Print Show is part of the Northern Exposure festival in Melbourne 17-19 June and in Sydney July/August 2011.