Michael Jackson

Love, hate, pity or bewilderment...

Whatever you think of the man, there's no denying the impact he's had on popular culture. There's also no denying the extreme physical transformation that Michael underwent in his lifetime...


This was inked using my new toy, the Pentel Brush Pen (synthetic hairs and refillable cartridges. Great!)

New Tee designs

Four new Tshirt designs available over at my Redbubble store

Grizzly Grunt

Speak of the Devil

Shrunken Head

The Damned

Jumping teds, shrunken heads and punk co-eds

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Posters and prints now available at my RedBubble store!!

This was done for Rhys McDonald's cheesecake pinup comic, 'Last Call for Sin' which is being released soon down here in Oz.

I make a guest appearance in this pinup as the shrunken head pendant. The inspiration for this piece came from one of my older drawings, DedTedHed.

Inked with felt tip pens (Artlines 0.4, 0.6), with a little bit of brushpen on the hair. Coloured in Photoshop.

Click below for some detail closeups-

Scarlett Johansson

A caricature of actress Scarlett Johannson as she appeared in the movie, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' (who's movie poster was based on Vermeer's 17th century painting of the same name).

You can see the various transformations my piece went through from initial pencil sketch to finished painting, here.

More Bettie Page art

This is the piece I wanted to create back in December for Bettie Page's tribute but at the time I only managed a simple cartoon. So it's a little late to be a tribute, but anytime's a good time to draw Bettie. Expect more soon.

Here's a link showing the pencils and the halfway stage on the colours.

Three humans and a hamster

More caricature playtime from over at The Drawing Board.





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Heroes and Villains

Fifteen superhero characters for fifteen award categories was the brief on this recent job I did for Desktop magazine and their upcoming annual awards night.

With the help of my agent-extraordinaire Matt Jackson, who wrote the character outlines, I went about designing each one to reflect the award category they represented.

Inked with Pitt pens and coloured in Photoshop.

Categories- Emerging Talent, Web Design, Animation

Categories- Multimedia, Photography: Creative, Post Production

Categories- Packaging, Creative of the Year, Photography: Commercial

Categories- Digital media, Fashion (graphics), Print: Creative

Categories- Illustration, Print: Commercial, People's Choice

Here are the names I came up with for the heroes (from the top)

1. Ember 2. Binary 3. Dr. Defribulator 4. Multi Mbuti 5. Timelapse 6. De Sceptre 7. Transverter 8. Captain Condor 9. Fluoro 10. Circuitbreaker or Mobo (short for motherboard) 11. Mondri Anna 12. Cicada 13. Inkstain 14. Sin7 15. Allura Red

and here are Matt's, which are the official names-

1. Pepper 2. Kazimir 3. Velika 4. Kambo 5. Dagny 6. Chuchot 7. Alex 8. Anton 9. Phebe 10. Mahon 11. Chiara 12. Hewie 13. Berangèr 14. Maksim 15. Verena

Visit the award website to see how it turned out-

Bowie

As someone who likes to explore different styles in his illustration work, I have the utmost respect and admiration for a musician like David Bowie who manages to explore, experiment and evolve in his music during a career that has spanned five decades! So put me down as a big fan of the man and his music.

This was done for the current David Bowie jam over at The Drawing Board.

The 'painting' started out as a blue ballpoint pen scribble. It was then scanned into Photoshop and with the line colourised on a multiply layer, colour and shading was added using a hard brush with opacity jitter set to pen pressure (this creates transparent to opaque brushstrokes depending on how hard you press. Good for painterly brushstrokes). Then I went to Painter and blended together the line and shading to create a painted look (see my paperboy tutorial for that process in detail). Then it was back into Photoshop where I added detail with the aforementioned hard opacity brush. Noise was added at the end to give it a slight grain, reducing the digital look.

Here's a close up of the face detail

Surprise, surprise...more caricatures!

More caricatures, more experiments.

I felt myself getting a little conservative in some of my previous caricatures, so the colour one above is an attempt to try and push my exaggerations that little bit further.

With the black and white caricature I added the digital splatter textures as an afterthought. I'm glad I did though as they really add that extra little something to the sinister feel of the drawing.

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Cute monsters

Monsters are so much fun to draw. It really is playtime for the imagination. If I was told I could only ever draw monsters and women for the rest of my life, I'd be very happy. Saying that, I really need to find the time to draw more of both.

These were done as samples for a job which eventually fell through, but I figured they were too cute not to share.

Getting what you give

More caricatures of fellow caricaturists from the ever popular Drawing Board thread. I've received a whole bunch of terrific caricatures of me in return. Any caricaturists of any calibre should definitely check it out. Great fun.





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RIP Bettie Page

A little caricature tribute of iconic pinup model, Bettie Page who passed away yesterday aged 85.

For those who may have missed it, I did another Bettie piece earlier this year as a tribute to late comic artist, Dave Stevens. You can find that piece here.