The Roller Derby girls have a bout coming up and ‘Whisky Sour’ approached me for the poster artwork. This stuff always makes for such great work because the themes and the names are cool. So this is the artwork for “The Sound of Violence: Electric Dreams vs Sonic Doom”. A poster and a print ad for Drum Media. So next time you see a copy of the mag grab one and check it out.
A digitally painted caricature of good old Tony. Always getting himself into a biff over something
Tony Abbot
This is my first foray into the world of 3d. Inspired by the wonderful work over at conceptships.blogspot.com. I did these in Google Sketchup, Rendered them in open source render software Kerkythea and then finished it up in photoshop.
I did this poster for Kylies 21st. Just sat down and hammered it out the night before in a couple of hours. I got it printed the next day on A2 120gsm gloss artpaper. So last minute but in the end, very worth it!
…and a few pics of the unveiling. The @_@ look on my part is quite genuine.
Found another endless resource of practice – the movie 300. .
This is pretty fun. I just trawled through the TripleJ gig galleries picking random photos to paint. Here are some of them. The first is from an Ash Grunwald Gig, the second I cannot remember and the third is the Presets (pink suit jacket, easy).
The crazy lighting and and colours make these a great little exercise. They are also ordered from my first attempt to the most recent. So I hope to see some improvements after a while! These take anywhere from 20 to 40 mins each on my Cintiq
This friendly face is part of my current project – working on the feature film “Congoro” (check out trailer here). DIgital painting done in Photoshop. Rah!
I’ll post up the final artwork soon.
Tagged concept art, congoro, digital paintingMy friend Stefan’s film the Strawberry and has just made it through into the 1st Round at the DoorPost along with 100 others (out of 700).
WHAT IS “THE STRAWBERRY”?
Made for The Door Post Film Project, The Strawberry is is the first official film by SARfilms Productions. Written by Steve McCall, Directed & Edited by Stefan Androv Radanovich, Cinematography by Dave Le May and Produced by Stuart Mackenzie. Made with a budget of $1,200AU, The Strawberry is a great example of the passion, talent and generosity of local WA filmmakers.
This is some concept art I did for Perth Director Loren Johnson’s feature film “Redback”. Set in the Aussie outback and based on a screenplay by LA Writer Karen Rodriguez.
Figured I might as well join the hype and whip up a caricature of Obama while its still hot! I’m really glad he won, I think he will be a great leader.
I made a custom brush for this piece and it worked really well. Also decided to leave most of the underlying pencil work, which I personally feel adds abit of character and depth to the piece, especially when all the rest is digital.
Pirates make for great characters. I felt like drawing some today so I whipped up a pageful, and here are two of them. <insert further pirate sounds here>
Here are some new character designs I’ve been playing around with. I’ve decided to go for a slightly rougher, more low-fi style of linework with these instead of a clean vector style. In most cases I’ve left the underling construction lines visible beneath the final linework.
I kinda like this way of working because its far more organic than all that pen-tool tweaking in illustrator.
Hopefully evident, this is a caricature of Jackie boy. Probably one of the easier faces to caricature out in hollywoodworld. I’m trying to do more celebs these days since their universal recognisability (is that even a word) means anyone (not just my friends) can instantly tell if its a win or a fail.
I decided to apply some of the digital painting goodness to some past work. Snoop seemed like a good place to start.
