First caricature of someone as an animal. Apparently someone accidentally mistook “O’Squeal” as “O’Squirrel” and the name stuck. Gold. Also a box of cats for lulz.
Some pics of the making of the Cavefire Cinema album ‘Discipline’. The guys were after two samurai meditating in a Japanese setting prior to a fight to the death.
I decided to use a 6 panel roll fold design to allow it to ‘wrap-around’ – like a metaphor for the cycle of life and death. Theres also a whole bunch of other hidden meaning. For example, the artwork beneath the disc shows the blood spattered ground (death) while the disc itself is a view of the sky representing the view the dieing warrior sees before his spirit is released… represented by a soaring eagle.
I started by gathering a ton of research on samurais from movie screenshots, and other photos. Then I did some rough sketches, composited them in photoshop, and printed them out to ink by hand.
Then I scanned those back into photoshop and coloured everything, and put it into Indesign for the layout side of things.
You can check out some pics of the finished artwork on my portfolio.
I’ve been busy the past few weeks working on a series of illustrated billboards for Office of Road and Safety. I was contracted to do four but this later grew to five. It was a pretty big job in a very short time-frame, but I got through it and I have to say I’m pretty thrilled with the outcome. The concept too is pretty clever.
The campaign will see these billboards being installed alongside routes where the illustrated image is most relevant. So I think the giant trees one is going to be down south in WA.
Will update with the exact locations once I find out where 
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.
My 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.
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.
