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.

Ribbonhead on Threadless

A  tshirt design  I've been playing with on the Threadless site.

Score this design: "RIBBONHEAD and the Bird," to help it get printed on Threadless!

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Snakeskin sketchbook 4

Departing now from feelings and looking more at character.
From the top; 'Camo & Flage', then perhaps the only
Diary entry drawn so far 'The Bridesmaid's Ass'
and then for fun "Beeheaded'.

Snakeskin sketchbook 3

From the top 'Birdy', 'Sad Tiger' and 'Skinny Puppy'. Still working with feelings and character I'm enjoying playing with the hands and portraying them with and without conventional body structure.

Snakeskin sketchbook 2

Stickhead (top) and Ribbonhead (below) were a transition in the drawings in the Snakeskin sketchbook. I had purged a few of the feelings through the earlier drawings and began to explore the style of character that had developed.  I often use birds to represent the human soul.

Snakeskin sketchbook 1

The Snakeskin sketchbook series is an in progress  project as the snakeskin covered sketchbook (faux snakeskin) I got for xmas 2010 is only half full. After a lifetime of black covered sketchbooks I had been given a cool thing to draw in.

These are the start of the drawings from the sketchbook and I have been using black gel pens with a crosshatch technique. My goal was to create at least one drawing a day in the sketchbook while on my recent travel to Canada and New Zealand. The first few pages of the sketchbook have been torn out and burnt as I tried to use it as a travel diary at first. That approach only served to allow some of my bad 'habits' to immediately surface in the form of 'crap' drawings. I then decided a good place to start was with drawing some of my emotonal responses to illness, as a family members illness was my reason for visiting Canada and starting with a new book. 

HeadsUp!

Some images from what I have tentatively called HeadsUp!
These guys are only some of a themed group that I have created for baby clothes and t-shirts to be sold on my Redbubble site page.  Click on the HeadsUp! collection to see more of these little funsters.

Global Warming - Weldon Owen

To follow up the last post and continue the environmental theme I thought I would post these images I created last year for  Weldon Owen and their Global issues series. These are for the first volume which was entitled 'Global Warming'.

The top image is an isometric infographic showing a bioreactor which is a way of harvesting gases from rubbish tips. The second image shows an isometric cutaway of an environmentally friendly residence.

Once again these images were created using adobe illustrator from pencil rough templates.

Waterwatch manuals - NSW Department of Environment & Climate Change (DECC)

These images are a few of many for the NSW government's Department of Environment & Climate Change 'Waterwatch' manuals and guides. Waterwatch is a program where community groups and stakeholders monitor and test water quality in their local waterways. They then can record their results on a central database that the NSW government uses to get a greater understanding of the states water resources. Above here are two images from the 'Landholder' guide and three from the 'junior' (school) guide.  

'Waterbug' images. These little fellows were used in information breakouts as well as on a water quality visual chart.

'How to' There were a great many instructional images showing how to use the various bits of equipment  and how to follow a process. It's important to get these accurate as these are for the collection of scientific data and the margin for error must be reduced for accurate interpretation of the data collected.

All images were finished created using adobe illustrator. Most started life as pencil sketches though some were created fully digitally.

Sketchbook 2 - studio window

Having just celebrated my son's birthday I felt compelled to publish this sketch I did of him a few years ago. This was one of the views from my home studio. It looks down onto the sandpit next to the fern garden and was a location for never ending creative play. I've seen many a sculpture built there and many a structure topple, washed away in the rain. One of my personal favourite sketches of all time.

Mount Annan Gardens - Mascot

This is a fun job that I got to do. I have always wanted to design a character that would be eventually transferred into a 3-dimensional walking talking living doll. This character is called 'Buttercup'. She's a character designed as a mascot for the Royal Botanic Gardens and their Mount Annan Gardens. The buttercup is a flower endemic to the garden area and the character was created to appear at the various events that the gardens put on at their south-western Sydney site at Mount Annan. The digital art was designed for brochure, promotion & newspaper.