Rutting Skull - Call of Duty Mousepad

This was a bit of fun with the 'Rutting Skull' image from the previous post.

I've modified the illustration to be a personalised Call of Duty mousepad for my son's birthday.

FONTS - Rabiohead from http://www.pizzadude.dk
and Cracked © 1993 House Industries 

Rutting Skull

This happy little skull is the mad cousin of a much more benign character I call Batzglass.
I'll post something about him in the next few months. 'Rutting Skull' comes from a little pencil scribble which appeared while I was working on the main Batzglass character concepts.
I recently started pulling some of these accidental nuggets from my sketchbooks to see if I can work them up into an interesting finished image in their own right.

TACHYON Gardens - character & Starflower

Detail from another spread. This one has one of the little characters examining the energy containing Starflower.

I have entered the full spread in the Wacom 5th anime contest.
http://www.wacom-asia.com/

TACHYON Gardens - characters in space flight - detail

TACHYON Gardens - characters in space flight - detail of the previous image with my signature overlayed for © protection

Tachyon Gardens - characters in space flight

Tachyon Gardens is a concept I am developing which I will post a few images from. Here I am having my fun with texture and digital filters. The colour palette and some elements of the background is similar to the one found on 'Ophelia'

MASK – angry red

As per the previous tribal mask a sketchbook idea brought to a finish.
This one is Angryred.

* June, 2012.  I've recently reworked this illustration and applied it to a skateboard deck design.
have a look at the label skateboard and that should take you to the most recent post or you can go to the the zazzlestore direct
http://www.zazzle.com/angryred_mini_skateboard-186117744564727655?gl=beestycard&rf=238666164147056874

Ophelia II

An updated image of Ophelia which I opened my blog with. The typography is more integrated and there is a little more detail in the figure.

Illustrators Australia - Ken Rinkel

Here's my link to my IA folio.
Illustrators Australia - Ken Rinkel

Just for fun. This is SKULLMASK_antler. Another sketchbook item converted to vector and uploaded to redbubble as a hoodie and t-shirt. A shamanic pre-apocalyptic party face.

You can see the source of this finished image in my earlier post 'sketchbook 1'

CREATION

I've been moving from one studio to another and have been digging up some older images from storage. These are a few spreads from the first picture book I illustrated called 'Creation' in 1995. It was voted as a notable book of that year by the Children's Book Council of Australia. Words by Sarah Crawford. and published by the now defunct Starfish Publications. Text runs along the bottom of the page below the illustration spread.

These are photos of some of the original oil paintings for the book.

I have a number of book stored in my studio from my publisher.
They are and available for purchase with delivery by Australia Post.
Prices* today including Postage & inc GST in Australia. $33.00.
To Canada and the USA including Postage CDN$38.25 USD$38.25
I have a paypal account so we can arrange payment through that.
picills@optusnet.com.au
* Please note, price subject to change depending on shipping costs.

JAZZMAN, horn

Jazzman, horn comes from a pencil sketch for my Stone Project series. It is presented here as a b&w image which I put together last night mainly as a t-shirt design for my redbubble site. It appears with a white border so it looks good on all colours.

REDBUBBLE

Well I've found a place where people can purchase some
of my images as one off pieces.
I've joined Redbubble and posted some designs for prints,
cards and t-shirts.

I'll be steadily adding to these over time so have a look at the slideshow here now and again or click through on the link to my redbubble page.
If there is something you see on the blog that you like, let me know and I'll see if its something we can get up on redbubble as well.

Monkey Mission No9

This was an image created as an adjunct to the Monkey Match books.
A sketch of a book cover, image and typography and book concept. Monkey Mission No9

Monkey Match books X2

Stone Project, Love hurts doesn't it Cupid

The Stone Project.
My love of Shona sculpture finds it's way into the digital realm. Here Cupid's stinging arrow creates a bit of hurt between the two love birds. Shona sculpture has shown itself as an influence on my artwork from the time of my first children's book in 1995. The picture book Creation was completed with oil paintings of characters inspired by this sculpture. I'll post some of the spreads soon and some more of the Stone Project as well.

Illustrators Australia 9X5 Exhibition 'Untold stories'

The Illustrator's Australia 9X5 exhibition is upon us. I've just completed and sent my artwork off to Melbourne. It is the 15th annual exhibition and is at Space 39, Level 2, 39 Little Collins St Melbourne 3000. opening night is Friday 17th September @6pm. This show will also travel to Brisbane but I do not know the dates so keep an eye on the IA website.
illustratorsaustralia.com/9X5 2010
This years theme is 'Untold Stories'. My piece is entitled "the forest said, 'don't tell anyone.'
It is in a scraperboard/ woodcut style. I had the image that I wanted to do but did not just want to glue a piece of scraperboard onto the wood. So I played around with some concoctions of gesso and polyfilla to come up with a white ground I could work with. I then experimented with various black coatings, finally using a combination of matt spray coating and a thin dusting of taggers spray paint.

The end process was a lot more laborious than store bought scraperboard but I think the raised surface which is now part of the board gives the piece a bit more soul.

The other artwork is one entitled 'Melchrist' done for the 2005 IA 9X5 exhibition. This one is oil on wood and inspired by Mel Gibson's 'thrashy' Jesus biopic.