Poseidon's Mistress

Two weeks from today, myself and a dozen of my fellow illustrators from Drawing Book Studios will be holding an art exhibition of personal art here in Sydney, Australia. My contribution, 'Poseidon's Mistress' will also be on sale during the exhibition as a hand signed and numbered, A1 sized, limited edition giclee print.

Drawn in Photoshop on a Cintiq over a 24 hour period. 67 x 60cm (26 x 23 inches)

Burger joint murals

Recently I was commissioned to create four black and white comicbook murals for a new chain of healthy burger joints here in Australia. The guys from Grill'd gave me four titles (Living Proof, Writing on the Wall, The Invisible is Real and Hand Made) which I had to interpret into art how I saw fit. They were pretty open to interpretation so you'll notice I've also included all the ideas I roughed out to get to the final four.

Living Proof

Writing on the Wall

The Invisible is Real

Hand Made

Roughs

How they appear in the restaurant-

Foxy Lady

Here's a caricature of Hollywood vixen Megan Fox as her namesake.

Last week after winning the Harry Shearer jam over on Facebook's 'Caricaturama Showdown 3000' group, it was my job to choose the next celebrity to be caricatured. Along with Harry, we'd had Picasso and Danny Trejo as topics, so I figured we needed someone prettier and less wrinkly this time around. So I chose actress Megan Fox (Transformers, Jennifer's Body, Jonah Hex). My interpretation of Megan above is part anthropomorphism and part caricature.

Here you'll find the original b/w Fox which was submitted to the comp. Also here's a link to my sleep deprived first attempt at Megan Fox (looking more like Steve Tyler) and an old version from my Sketchblog.

Harry Shearer

A caricature of actor and comedian Harry Shearer, most well known for his role as bassist Derek Smalls in the cult rock mockumentary 'This is Spinal Tap' and his voice work on The Simpsons (Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders to name a few). This was done for a weekly challenge over at Caricaturama Showdown 3000. 100% Photoshop.

The King of Interviewers

A quick digital caricature of the vulture-like, Larry King. This was done for the weekly challenge over at Wittygraphy.

Picasso 3000

This is a caricature of Spanish painter and co-founder of Cubism, Pablo Picasso. I did this for a caricature challenge over on the Facebook group, Caricaturama Showdown 3000.

I painted the bulk of this with the default round brushes in Photoshop then I used a few of my custom Photoshop brushes for texture. I love painting and drawing older people, exploring all the lines and crevices. It's a lot of fun.

A good Head for Radio- Part Two

Back in September 2006 I posted a digital sketch of Radiohead frontman, Thom Yorke using a Wacom Intuos tablet. Now four years later, I've upgraded to a Wacom Cintiq 21UX (an interactive pen display, for those not tech savvy) and below is another digital sketch of Thom Yorke. Done in Photoshop.

Charlie Sheen

It seemed only appropriate to follow all my recent blog posts of women with a drawing of Charlie Sheen (being the renowned womaniser he is). This was done for FHM magazine Australia. I was trying to go for sinister and sleazy, two words synonymous with Sheen.

I've put together a behind the scenes step-by-step of it's creation. You'll read about all the problems and hurdles I encountered along the way and be rewarded at the end with an animated gif of it's creation. Click the link below-

TUTORIAL

Sheila the Healer

This is a pinup done for Gee Hale's horror comic, 'The Believer'. Out in Australia in May/June. The background was sculpted in Zbrush, converted to bitmap then coloured in Photoshop.

Nelson Mandela

A fairly quick caricature of Nelson Mandela for this month's drawing contest over at Wittygraphy. This is 100% Photoshop using some of my custom brushes for textures. I'm usually pretty lazy when it comes to detailed finished paintings, so I pushed myself on this one to see how far I could take it.


Shown above are the brushes used for this piece. The first is one of Photoshop's default brushes with some small tweaks, this did 90% of the painting. The second is also a default Photoshop brush, this was used for the initial layer of hair and it was also used with the smudge tool to blend the lines of the sketch. The bottom three are my custom brushes. The first one (from Set Three) was used for the final layer of hair and also some texture on the face and background. The second (Set Eleven) was also used on the background. The third (Set Three) was used for the suit texture.

More girlies

I know it seems like all I've been posting lately is girly art, (and this is mainly due to my contributions to 'The Attractive Art Community' blog) but I will have some other type of art to share soon.

Come May I'll have a full colour Charlie Sheen caricature to share which I did for FHM magazine (along with an animated gif of it's creation) and I've been mucking around in my spare time redesigning Star Wars characters. So there'll be some non-girly art coming shortly.

Until then, here's Go-go Yubari from Kill Bill, The Black Cat from Spiderman and some semi-naked chick with tentacle hair (click the last two for the full pics)

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Hidden Easter Egg

Somewhere on one of my blogs is a HIDDEN EASTER EGG link which will take you to a SECRET BLOG I've been posting on for the last six months! On this blog you'll find sketches, work related art and gifts for friends and family which for some reason or another did not end up making it to the main blog. Below is a little tease of the work you'll find on the hidden blog.


So, to tie in with Easter I'm issuing a CHALLENGE- an EASTER EGG HUNT! The FIRST THREE people to find the link and post a comment on the latest post of the hidden blog will win a FREE T-SHIRT of my design from my Redbubble store!

After the winners have been determined, the blog will be revealed to everyone for the remainder of April. After that it will be hidden once again.

So, get to it! Happy Hunting!!

EDIT- COMPETITION IS CLOSED! Well, that was obviously too easy! The three winners have already been decided, I'll be in contact with them shortly to discuss prizes.

EDIT- 1st May. April is over and the hidden Easter Egg blog has been renamed and rehidden again. Thanks to everyone who visited. Let the hunt begin again!

Songstress and Seductress

The above pic is a speedpaint of songstress, Amy Winehouse. It turned out almost zombie-like so I guess that means it's a good likeness.

Below is a cropped part of a piece done for the blog 'The Attractive Art Collective'. It's a group blog I'm part of with some great artists contributing art of the female variety. For this piece I was inspired by the Frazetta female form. I used felt tip pens with additional drawing in Photoshop.

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