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.

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.