Jeffrey Phillips » digital painting

Commission: April O’Squeal

jeff — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:14:54 +0000

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.

Cavefire Cinema album artwork

jeff — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:11:20 +0000

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.

Office of Road & Safety – Belt Up Campaign Billboards

jeff — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:27:51 +0000

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

WA Roller Derby Poster Artwork

jeff — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:30:50 +0000

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.

Tony Abbot Caricature

jeff — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:13:02 +0000

A digitally painted caricature of good old Tony. Always getting himself into a biff over something

Tony Abbot

lolkat

jeff — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:42:36 +0000

Kat is a real person. She looks more or less like this, but in real life she is more ranga. She would make an awesome comic character.

3D Concept

jeff — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:30:20 +0000

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.

KFox!

jeff — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:16:54 +0000

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.

This is (a digital sketch of) SPARTA!!

jeff — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:14:55 +0000

Found another endless resource of practice – the movie 300. .

Digital paintings of live music acts

jeff — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:53:07 +0000

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