Aurora

What a busy couple of months it has been. I haven't had work in a while and when it comes it comes thick and fast. I'm working on an animated TV series in the city at the mo and have been doing some tattoo designs for friends as well as doing posters for the Aurora group.

This had a Gay Paris theme and went through various incarnations. I looked up old Paris posters online and tried to go for a Toulouse Lautrec /Mucha feel at the start with a modern twist.

It molded itself after a while to fit with the conventions of modern printing and the needs of the client to convey their information.

Here's some of the evolution.

Mark and Kym

So our friends Mark and Kym came down for the Mardi Gras weekend and we spent a great Saturday with them. Mark had asked me a while ago to do a picture of the both of them and I thought this was a good time to get at it. Usually I try to make people look happy and big smiles and stuff but Mark and Kym have too much presence and character for the that. It was fun to do something with a bit more attitude. Not Snoopdog/M and M attitude ....just more than the usual.

Gladice and Buck

I've been trying to think of design's for postcards to send out to people to get work. Apparently this is what's done in the Illustration industry and most people have mailing lists which I'm trying to collate. I drew some of my old characters Gladice and Buck and then put them in a Gunnedah shire background (being a Gunnedah boy).Odd twist but i guess it's the old saying of do what you know (not that i know hippo's). Maybe it'll just end up as a start for a story or if I change the wordings for a postcard. I like the texture on the Hippo.

Angel and the Astronaut

I was trying to think up T-shirt ideas but i don't know if this one would read very well. It's an Astronaut and an Angel having a moment together. I don't know who found who or how you light a match in Space/heaven but hey, in either place you may just need to take 5 and have a chinwag...

The Ginger Enigma.... I still haven't quite worked out why there is such a strong, mostly humorous, slight against the glorious world of redheads. I gather that it's just difference. As with all difference black, white, gay, straight, people from Dubbo. People just can't deal with the beauty...the fact that they have to rub paprika through their hair to catch up in the colour stakes. To be left with neutral coloured hair must be such an indignity. I am pained for the people with...Mousey... coloured... hair. Oh My.

Ah It's the lovely Franka's Birthday... what a sparkler she is. I always find it harder to caricature women as there is a bit more....delicacy involved. I didn't really have a problem with Franka as she's such a strong character anyway. Love that girl.xx

Ghostly Angel

This is the third in the short series I'm doing as a project of "The Red Shoes". This is the part where after dancing away from the ball and not being able to stop herself she dances into the forest and comes across a church which has a angel in front of it which tells her to repent but she says to him " Like...I can't talk right now...even..so like..I'm gonna keep dancing and stuff"...Then she dances off into the forest again.

I'm enjoying using the textures. It's producing some darker and different stuff than my usual linear drawing style.