Thursday, July 16, 2009

ps.jack carty concept

also there is this colour concept..i like this for it dynamic
splashes of colour but maybe i prefer the sepia toned one because
it looks like a weird silent film

jack carty concepts

so as i was on the interweb the other day
i decided to check my myspace..something i
don't do as often as i once did..there i
found a week old message from jack carty
asking me if i might wanna do album art for
him ..he had seen my emma davis and leroy lee
stuff and liked it ...so i emailed back and
waiting nervously to see if the offer was
still there..in the meantime i worked up
these concepts that had struck me while
buying a chicken ceaser wrap for lunch
anyways..fingers crossed he likes them

front cover

back cover

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

the boy and bear ep continued

after the band requested something
more old world and wearing an animal mask
the astronaut was replaced by this native indian
wolf character..fingers crossed that it passes muster




Thursday, July 9, 2009

groupie magazine

http://www.pagesonline.it/groupie033/holder.html

above is a link to the online edition of groupie
magazine where my audreys entry is displayed as a
finalist...yay

Monday, July 6, 2009

the boy and bear ep

UPDATE
on a whole the band liked it but has asked for the
astronaut to be replaced with something more from
the old world..which is not a problem for me

first draft
ok so this is the most nerve racking time
when you sent it off to the band and you
have no idea what their response will be..
fingers crossed





disc art
i wanted to keep this fairly simple and
have the lighthouses kinda make a clock
face


stages 4
the astronaut had to be like an old 70's
style astronaut ..mainly cause i liked the
orange jumpsuit..the issue with this has been
my war between wanting it to be detailed but
not having it a mess when shrunk down..the
removal of the canvas texture helped with this..
as a side note i really wanted him to look like
ernest hemingway or atleast how pappa would have
seen him self as the old man



stage 3-lighthouse island
finding the right way to do the island was tricky
at first i wanted a manhattan island sized island
full of lighthouses..an idea i might keep to one side
for further boy and bear material ..in the end a rottness
island sized island was the best option..it seemed to hold
more of a mysterious island quality to it



the lighthouse
the lighthouse took a while to create..to have
one lighthouse that can look like a town full
of lighthouses with out it looking like i just
cut and paste was a hard balance to find


stage 2- background texture
as done before in their poster i wanted
the weathered and textured backgrounds of
my boy and bear stuff to be a link from
project to project..my aim is to have it
look like an old movie being projected onto
old tattered wallpaper


stage one-the concept
the idea of a an island filled with nothing
but lighthouses has been in my head for a
while..it wasnt executed earlier because i
had it on hold for a childrens book but after
reworking that i decided to attach it to this
project mainly due to the fact i wanted something
bold an unseen before to be placed behind the
lost at sea astronaut .


Wednesday, July 1, 2009

going to the chapel.....






heres the logo for the name cards
at my mums wedding and a mock up

Monday, June 29, 2009

totally addicted to bass..saul bass


heres an image to drum up interest in a film
being made by sam fielder. its an odd tale filled
with supernatural things..i thought an ode to bass
and 50 and 60's poster design would suit..but with
a modern twist

Thursday, June 25, 2009

chillin with the coolin


i really like doing posters
for a monthly indie night and
i feel this makes up for last
months rush job

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

bear and boy




stage 3
adding little details like this lantern bird
and colour grading more and then ofcourse
the type...



stage 2
combining the illustration with old newspapers
and parchment i get this weathered textured
backing and then colour grade and light to
match.


stage one..
inspired by peter pan and little nemo
i really wanted to do someone sailing
on a cloud..originally the captain had
an octopus on his head but that looked
silly..

stage 3 soon

Sunday, June 21, 2009

sweet snuffings




this is a concept image for a masthead
for my friends mase and jess' zine.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

the audreys poster comp.

its amazing what a bit of aging can do
to a poster..i went from liking to loving
this one now...of course that will change
as soon as i start my next project...sigh




i dont usually enter poster comps but
this one seemed to tempting to pass up..
esp seeing the audreys have a rich history
of great posters..theres also the golden
carrot of being featured in a magazine..
niiiice...so fingers crossed..lets see
how my ode to french poster design goes

Monday, June 15, 2009

grin and bear it




here's an early version of the latest crooked fiddle
poster..its a lot different to how i first saw it
but with most things it evolved into something better
along the way..although the b&w version may be closer
to what i had in mind

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

space man i always wanted you to go into....space man


time to go a little different
time to go futuristic

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

your'e invited to....




twas an honour getting to do the invite and
order of service for my mums wedding...loved
playing with this type too..making it all old
newpaper in style and kerning

Monday, June 1, 2009

the spruced suess duece





the 2nd poster for the monthly indie
night club

Thursday, May 28, 2009

i want to ride my bicycle..i want to ride my bike





lately i am really really into riding my bike
so i wanted to incorporate this into a poster
( also giving herc the bike is a nice in joke)
but i wanted to have this in the dead letter
world ..so rather than have a manimal simply
riding through town i thought it fun to have
him carrying the town with him like a bunch
of balloons...weirdly the background valley
is an odd ode to kid A

Sunday, May 24, 2009

folk you.. i wont do what you tell me



i was asked to help out with a poster
to help raise money for 3 people wrongly
imprisoned during the G20 protests and as
a massive fan of the protest posters of the
60's i was more than happy to do this little
ditty

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

the spruced suess




this poster once drawn for youth group
but as it turned out the event failed to
happen and the organizers asked me to bring
it back from the dead for this one off indie
night of joy at the oxford art factory

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

sunny day..everythings going my way...







Day one
today i created some of the characters to fill the
cardboard sesame street set for bubba jacks first birthday
if all goes to plan this should end up looking
pretty good..will blog the progress

Monday, April 27, 2009

how i beat.com

another 2 logos..more to come



UPDATE
four more logos




heres some revisions




logos always make me nervous and
even more nerve racking is doing for
something as serious as medical blogs..

so these are early versions of each blogs
logo . they range from depression and anxiety
to homelessness and drug abuse...so i will
post the finished results but this is how they
stand as a series at the moment

Monday, April 20, 2009

funny mood



creatively blocked on my logo job
i turned to this as a means to amuse
myself..its nice defacing everyones
fave radiohead "destroyer"

Monday, April 6, 2009

delighted to meet you


udate: the business card





inspired by old 30's hat check girls
this is a web graphic for my sisters
awesome cupcake site

Thursday, April 2, 2009

shoot the player :bob evans






for amy and jon this was a tough shoot
but for me it was a blast cause i had
great locations..an act who wasnt shy
and all my creative juices seemed to be
flowing

rise of the ghost tree

UPDATE
heres the reworking of it for street press



fingers crossed the final version


UPDATE
this is a slight reworking at the request
of the band and management..i dont really
mind as the light ray seems to work
better on this version




this image of a tree being dressed like
it were part of the mexican day of the
dead has been in my head for a few weeks
now..so when asked to do another poster with
no creative restraints i jumped at the chance
even though it was a two day dead line..

daz poster

the dim tree





poor dim got to see the full
spectrum of my creative emotions
whilst i painted this tree mural
for her new room..i think an owl
may be added at a later date

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

abracadabra




This is a housewarming gift for the
godfather of magic and twee..mr mase dogg

omg





my fave kids book + spike jonze+ arcade fire
wow..this is blog worthy

only by the night


tis a re-working of one of the earlier
took took images to fit more into the
story and tone

Sunday, March 22, 2009

festival of flight


based on old air shows that travelled
the country this is the last took took
image for a while..this one is kinda
personalised as i drew a version of
jack and i watching the took tooks
fly over

card shark

this is a quick business card i made
up for a client of the print company
i do work for on the side

redjayaway

this is a fairly literal translation but
sometimes a simple concept just seems
apt and it works better than some of the
hair brain ideas you've had

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

dead french new wave



I based this poster on Jaques Tati
the famous french comic , i always
liked his ultra french style posters
and thought it would be fun to warp
that image a bit

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

life in technicolour


circus took tooks and spying
took tooks in the sky...these
kinda just flowed outta me which
maybe means i've got my rythm
now..

Monday, March 16, 2009

more took tooks


spent st patricks day drawing
drunken circus birds for a semi
deadline tomorrow..a respite will
be had and a brew drank along with
a silent cheers to the took took from me

the circus is coming


been drawing up this circus scene
for the took tooks..was mighty
pleased with this ringleader so
i thought i would post it up

Thursday, March 12, 2009

dead letter easter

asked to do an easter gig
poster for dead letter I racked
my brain to try and avoid the
usual images when i scribbled
down the above image on the train
..after about four days of work, i couldnt
be happier with result

Sunday, March 8, 2009

pARTy


art works for elissa and blakes
friday 13h engagement party..

emma poster

heres a poster for emma davis'
gig in brisbane..it kinda makes me
think of a car commercial but maybe
for the most eco friendly car possible..
also this is possibly the first poster i have
used helvetica on..yay

Sunday, March 1, 2009

shameless ripoff


ha ha heres my shameless ripoff
of shepard fairey's oboma hope
campaign poster..done pretty much
to amuse myself and to have a silly
profile pic

Thursday, February 26, 2009

took-scapes


stage two
now added with the forground elements of
performing and robbing took tooks and the
house and unwitting local being robbed



stage one
the background
this is probably one of the most
layered backgrounds i have done
in a while even though the block
colours make it seem rather simple..

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

marching off to war


the first image produced for Mr Julius' Took
Took childrens book,,this panel shows the islands
people marching off to war and leaving the took
tooks circus to close...

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

update

just to add to my many side projects,
how many can one person have? i have
decided to get into doing some doiley art
and some 3d/pop up style framed art work..

Monday, February 23, 2009

sgt peppers lonely monster band

heres a nice tip of the hat to the beatles
ok ok so my last few posts have been side
projects ..time to get back to it...back to the
took took

Saturday, February 21, 2009

once you've popaganda'd you cant stop-aganda






even more..i think it's
a mixture of my love
of satire and copy writing
that compells me to churn
these out on my down time


Saturday, February 14, 2009

sudden rush to the head

this image came to me as i was
waiting for chicken katsu sushi
i raced home and produced it
relatively quickly..if only all ideas
were as easy

daz electric skeleton t shirt

it's not yet approved but here is my
vector art for darren's new t shirt..
its a combination of the amusement
park theme and his beloved electric
skeletons

Thursday, February 12, 2009

stick em up






these side sticker projects are so
much fun and so easy to produce
i find myself doing them evertime
i have some idle time...
" it appears the devils hands have
been busy"

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

more popaganda







i'm slowly building my army

of random stickers to place

around the city...

port o' brian



this was a fun shoot with the current
indie "it" band..we played in the graffiti
tunnel and main quad at sydney university

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

dazzler


some art needed to be placed
on the cd cover that incorparated
daz's name so this electric skeleton
branded pinball machine seemed just
the ticket

Monday, February 9, 2009

first rough look

theres alot still to fix and add but heres
the 1st rough version of the darren hanlon
b-sides album

yet more daz art


yay boats on angry seas
getting to do my old school
stuff..this time with the daz
suggested amusement park

Saturday, February 7, 2009

more daz goodness





Friday, February 6, 2009

popaganda

i have been messing around
in my head with some cheeky
posters ideas to put up in sticker
form around the inner west

more daz art


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

darren hanlon's album artscapes


this is an image that's been in my
head for over a year now..hopefully
its one of about half a dozen that will
make up the wallpaper for daz's album

Monday, February 2, 2009

good news

i got great news last night that i will
be illustrating darren hanlons next album
in a kinda wallpaper design..plus a t-shirt
design and still on the cards is the video..
exciting times...which i will blog of course

zonk monster


heres a monster i drew inspired
by jack that has turned into
an bsession..it may turn into a
large array of versions of this
particular guy..so far theres indian
monsters ..sgt peppers monsters and
sailor monsters...the sky is the limit
with these dudes

shoot the player : reggie watts


we shot reggie on a hot weekend
at the infamous harry's cafe de wheels..
he played a couple of songs and then
played a free style jazz riff on the piano

Saturday, January 24, 2009

early days

video

i emailed darren hanlon about a vid we
discussed doing this morning..i worked on this
bare bones future city scene just to see if
i can do it....if he says yes

shooting the player:cloud control


Twas an early start on a sunday morning
but it was worth it to photograph cloud
control playing two songs for the sydney
festival edition of shoot the player..
with the left overs of the night before
and the local crazies spectating the kids
played old fave old books and new fave
hollow drum...






Wednesday, January 21, 2009

the doctor is in



the first project done on my laptop
using photoshop..yay..so this is for
a music festival in petersham where
the headline act is youth group..im
hoping the suess-ness of this and the
bold colours will attract a fair amount
of attention from punters and ..wink wink
youth group


Sunday, January 18, 2009

shoot the player : dead letter chorus

twas a hot afternoon in surry but
dead letter played a fantastic set
of 4 or five songs that had kids
and passerbye becoming eagre
spectators....gabs played 1 or 2
songs on the sydney festival piano
..this concept will be part of a series
shot by shoot the player

Friday, January 16, 2009

silly mexican wave hat

yay head wear based on puns..
this was for nats mexican party

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

preview show images










so the show went well, if not a little dimly lit
but the entire night was a sell out event..which
is great plus i may be adding to these for the
big artssue

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

speed drawing

been working pretty intensely over the last
week to get images ready for the preview
show..here's some snippets

video

below is a massive street scape image for
the show , which i now wish i had recorded
for the speed draw





Monday, December 29, 2008

childrens book of revelations preview image


my day with soko


the first three pics are from tthe shoot the
player shoot we did with the infamous
french songbird soko ..she played three
songs , new songs, in waverly cemetry
and we filmed here trapsing through the
beachside resting place..again i think i have
a cameo as a useless egg shaker ..sigh but its
all good..afterwards we headed to bondi
where we hung out and she missed her
sound check..naughty...as a favour i told
her i would make here a pair of alien ears
for her gig..so using a mickey mouse hat and
an old tv antenna i fashioned a alien headress
which she donned for her encore and also
gave us a nice shout out for doing so...
twas a strange and fun day and kinda
demystified that whole celeb thing

Sunday, December 28, 2008

jacks room





using jacks fisher price dummy
as our colour swatch , dim and i
spent the last weekend of 2008
creating a new room for our bubba
jack...we hope he love it as much
as we do

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

emma davis




this was a fun marriage as i had in
mind something to do with a car made
of flowers and then emma asked for some
thing that involved her much loved vw
beetle...its nice when things just click
so this is for peats ridge promos in the
form of a postcard...with more work
this will become the front cover of her
ep...the inspirations on this were very
much jay ryans cover of chabon's final
solution papaerback

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

the childrens book of revelations



today saw the first full day of
work on the art collection known
as the children's book of revelations.
its an exhibition i aim to hold mid
year with lots of works the denote
just how fucked the world has become
but done in a playful and whimsical fashion..
the first half a dozen images will be
previewed at the post festival festival
and these two rough images are
from two of the art works that
will be on show...
also on show 20 of my fave gig posters

Monday, December 15, 2008

invasion in stereo-o-o-o

i had so so so much fun doing this
and as a side note , please notice
there will be art by me on show..
this art work is a loose sequal to
last years post festival festival
poster which can be seen for
historical value here..

so french , so chic


here's my biz card ode to le chat noir

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

back to the town of magnificent

this is the early version of the single 
cover to down in your valley...this is
of course subject to change at the whim 
of the band but for me its an image..star
gazing that is..that ive been wanting to do
for a while and was going to have on the 
augie march album cover that fell through

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

evolution number 9

this idea just occurred to me and it filled
me with such excitement that i had to blog
it so i can remember it later....
so i want to spend a year drawing the evolution
of a city from paddock to cottage to booming
metropolis ..and at its anchor point the original
cottage de-evolving....my hope is to draw
atleast one building a day ..maybe more for one
year...in the last quarter i will keep drawing and
animate and ask the musicians i know around
sydney to contribute a section of score or voice
and have the music build like a phillip glass piece..
im really excited by this and i wanna ear mark its
first showing on my 34th birthday which is insane
seeing i am 32....
if i go ahead with this i will document the stages
of its progress as i go along..

peace out

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

riders on the crooked storm


this poster was going to be something
completely different , like two business
tie snakes fighting like cobras..but it didnt
look so hot when done..this idea had been
floating in my head for some time and seemed
perect for this type of poster

Thursday, November 27, 2008

a magnificent xmas


heres a weird fox version of the von trapps
singing carols and erecting xmas trees in
the woods in the dead of night...this is my
first xmas gig poster for this year.yay i hope
i get more ..i really dig doing em

Monday, November 24, 2008

smells like teen spirit

heres the finished (unless changes are asked for)
version of the high school campaign for atyp

Sunday, November 23, 2008

heres another stage in the teen beasts


Thursday, November 20, 2008

the class of 09






i've been trying to get the teen
monsters right for about a week
now and i think i finally cracked it..
so heres some early unrendered sketches
..ps is it ego or therapy putting the high
school version of yourself into a poster

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

very early concept for mr hanlon

heres a really quick sketch i have
been floating in my brain for a while
will send this when coloured ,bg'ed and
bordered to darren and see if he wants
it for either the under the clotheseline
or his december tour

speed drawing-teen monster

video

boy i wish i could draw this fast..
ok so this is for the teen atyp monster
poster ..having many kids to draw i use
a template of face and body type and then
with each character give them their own
characteristics..this one is the cheerleader

Saturday, November 15, 2008

THE RETURN TO PAC MOUNTAIN

I will be working with the boys
from the small hours as part of
their design print bizness..first
up is a fun poster for their up
coming world bar gig..i liked
doing this poster alot as it plays
with both colour and shape and
retro gaming...it also suits the band
and venue which is always a plus

shooting the player : the desks



despite a few delays and the
fact i had to run off to a
wedding this shoot in a burnt
out house in summer hill was a blast..
wow i wish every street had a burnt
house to play in...as long as its not
mine



Thursday, November 13, 2008

chatting up a storm



i wanted this to look like if andy warhol had
been a sk8board designer in the 50's and had done
the velvet underground album...
ps i have so much fun working with mr cheshire.



Monday, November 10, 2008

urban monster children

a new version for the atyp monster
poster ad

Thursday, November 6, 2008

a big day for took tooks





today is indeed a big day for
took tooks and me as i go off
to meet the author with these
concepts for his book..if given
the go ahead excpect to see
alot more took took related
posts...above is the third
colour concept of the took took
and a very early concept of
the island of cap

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

the took took ..now in colour

these are 2 out of the 4 variations
of took took birds i have to present
the author at our meeting

Monday, November 3, 2008

the chats in studio


the amazing trio of ben,dan and joe
hit the studio to record some f the
most catchy diddy's you'll hear this
year...i was lucky enough to take some
pics in the last hour or so of recording



Sunday, November 2, 2008

crooked tshirt concepts

early drafts of the crooked fiddle
t shirt..

little monsters first draft

heres what i just sent through to ATYP
for their schools campaign

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

something modern






some "highlight pages" from the
thoroughly modern milly booklet
also im rather happy with my
milly emblem

crooked fiddle street press



a spot colour hand drawn version of
their EP cover for street press

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

beach house video

http://vimeo.com/2015036


i have a cameo and a credit on this awesome
shoot the player video and it captures
victoria and i making squeeky sounds in
the sand with our feet...good times

Sunday, October 19, 2008

just a quick note






was rather pleased to see three colour ads
by me in this weeks brag..one full page
colour too...as an act of sheer vanity
I took some pics

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

polar opposites



one is a brooding epic scaled street press ad for what
may be the best australian album of this year...
the other is so colourful and simple i am
shocked it came out of me



Tuesday, October 14, 2008

the took took

a very early concept sketch of the took took bird
from the childrens book i will be illustrating
this is one of three early concepts..and will
be developed over the next few weeks with
the author



Thursday, October 9, 2008

john columbus demo cd art


this image will also be carried through

to the poster art for the hoey residency in

novemeber

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

i dont think your ready to bust this jelly

so heres the poster minus the information
type in the mid -section again i'm steering
towards this unrealistic overly saturated
colour palette something i now prefer...
actually dead letter may be the last time
for a while i use realistic colouring

i dont think your ready to bust this jelly part 1


heres an early drawing of my moster sized jelly fish
for the fuzzy presented dance night DISCOASIS
its hard to tell from this where its going but
the finished image will be an explosion
of colour and playfullness






Monday, September 29, 2008

going to grace land





this was a race against time in construction...
all the elements produced at home but then
the final images were created at kinkos
using their photoshop..i had twenty dollars..
what i could get for that determined the
work..i think its got its moneys worth though

Sunday, September 28, 2008

the town of magnificent tour





without a scanner or a main computer to work with
these images have been really hard to create as it had to
match the previous work done on said , dead computer

Friday, September 26, 2008

the town of magnificent


The town is really starting to take shape.
which is a good thing seeing this is due early
nextweek

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

sweded posters



Sunday, September 21, 2008

cassettopus series






three options sent to fuzzy

cassettopus







final version of this poster up soon

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

new cuthbert art

this week will se two new poster for cuthbert
this is the first for their halloween gig..lead
singer richie dared me to do something a
little fucked up..i think ghosts of dead orphans
ascending to heaven after a halloween fire will
suffice ..this is also about 90 percent complete
there will be an addition of a pyro trick or treater
as well

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

one trick pony rides

so after a discussion a old story book
pop up style thing was asked for instead
of the water colours..oh well..i dig this anyway
..its nice to put evil red wolves on posters..
so heres hoping they like it

Sunday, September 14, 2008

columbus back in the studio




the boys are back in the studio
recording a new ep for their hopetoun
month long residency..theres more of
these but this is just a taste

sometimes a change is better than a holiday


a mixture of water colour painting
and photography this is an image
i will translate to their EP art aswell

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

a sequel in the works


so i have decided to do a sequel poster
for john columbus for their upcoming
hopetoun residency

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

???????

there's something weird going on and
i think its gonna get weirder......
ooh secrets

Monday, September 8, 2008

art for arts sake

so to stop myself from going
a bit mental i've decided t try
and do an artwork for myself
hopefully everyday..this will
probably fail as soon as a drastic
deadline approaches but heres
my first piece called legs 11 minus
the 9

new art


again playing with colour and composition
more than epic scale ideas..i would like to have
a big toes dipping into both worlds in future

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

fundraiser and art collector

my new titles..so last nights fundraiser at ears vs eyes went
really well ..not only did i score a greedy hen for a great price
but my art work also fetched a very decent price ...twas a great
night and a fun auction

Monday, September 1, 2008

???????????

if you know what IT is...you MUST keep it a secret..
the whole marketing campaign hinges on it


sometimes a client asking for a completely
diffferent slant..mainly cause the old slant
scared them a bit..this new slant is a great
way to try completely different styles..this
style is the opposite of my usual but it felt
really good..maybe a mix of both will become
a main stay

Thursday, August 28, 2008

new expat art

inspired by my pal stars photo from burning man last year
and my love of german expressionism and some other stuff
like moths..this is my first foray into this kind of colouring

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

so..yeah whatever

so field day dumped me..claiming my drawing of
field day wasnt field day enough and they have
chosen to go with a photo..they were nice about
it and all but it still sucks..but anyways i have
DLC and saving grace cd to do..an expatriate poster
and a childrens book..so its better i keep my shit
indie for now

Sunday, August 24, 2008

field day


so this is the new version of
the field day poster i have emailed
them ..im hoping for not too many changes...
ahh a boy can dream .....cant he?

field day version 2



so its a race against time..i have a love hate
relationship with this image..i feel
its better than a lot of my stuff and i also
feel like i could make it better...with first
deadline due in the afternoon tomorrow we
will see how it goes

shoot the player : beach house










i love love love love these guys..as brilliant off stage as they are
on..victoria is the coolest lady as well...twas a fun day ..twas a fun
couple of days ..bobbing in and out of their very cool lives

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

on the stoop poster art

inspired by old french posters and skate designer
Parra this is my effort for the very fun band on the stoop

pop up book renee poster


after the battle to get the last poster right
heres the new renee cassar poster..a concept
ewill tellveryone seemed to like..what its fate is..
only time

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

sad but happy..the brief death of wild things



so in a sad turn of events, this image for which
i am extremely proud of , will not be used for
field day but may be used for something later on...
on the upside i still have the gig and be working on
an idea which is happy and familiar territory...
also in other news i got offered my first childrens book

Sunday, August 17, 2008

the rumpus grows

Thursday, August 14, 2008

let the rumpus begin









some early sketches from what will end up being an epic
wild things inspired image for the field day poster

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

grrrr arrggg and new art



one of those days were nothing has one right
spent 10 days on one poster ..to have it rejected!
field day doesnt like any of my ideas so far and im
running out of time ..although i might have one or two
ideas up my sleeve and im still getting the run around
from all involved when it comes to the kmh clip

on the plus side i produced this yesterday and
im rather happy with it

Thursday, August 7, 2008

woot woot..i just found out im gonna be doing art for field day..this is massive

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

renee art


completed over many days , locations and
modes of transport this poster is an ode
to the old and the new..

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

the making of renee's poster and street art nuevoue






so i have decided for renee's poster
and possible album to create street art nuevoue
which is a mash up of aubrey beardsley and
banksy..this so far is stage one of the process
which is just the pure illustration ..spraypainting
and photoshop as well as weathering and
photography are still to come..its fun
to be able to play with all these opposing media
for one image









tanya cries wolf


so the lovely tanya from sherlock daughter
emails me and asks for a poster to be done
pretty quickly she also asks for the poster
to feature a wolf...so my mind springs into
action and suggests that we make him the
big bad wolf and in his eyes ( yet to be drawn)
we see little red in her riding hood...and also
we make it like a propaganda poster much like
the work of the subversive obey group...
so here's the creepy wolf sans type..
this was done in record time..probably an hour
all up....i love it when an idea works and can be
simple too

Sunday, July 27, 2008

more suess like images for greenpeace




this is so sneetches inspired more so
that the other pages which are more
Oh the places you'll go...im having too
much fun doing this...suess has already
aletered how i want to colour..i wanna go
through a very non realism in colours for
a while i think


Friday, July 25, 2008

ps-ing those shitty few days

during a very low point in the last few days i dawned upon an idea for a childrens
book that gave me new life ...i feel its important now to be doing work for myself
and not giving every idea i have away to other people and bargain basement costs...

it feels good to be back

Thursday, July 24, 2008

late night paranoia

cant sleep and i have this feeling that they have buried
the kate video clip for good..cant be sure..but i havent heard
a peep about the remix version coming out and they have
removed all traces of the original version..4 and a half months
in the making ..two weeks shelf life ..then gone for good...
any way its late and i have had a shit day at the start and the end..

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

an angry side note

today has been a fucking awful day
everything seems to be fucking up and
its out of my control...never felt so much
like throwing this business in and going
to work in some soulless shit job just so i
can get a regular pay....it seems i respect
deadlines but people dont respect the fact
they need to pay me...fuck fuck fuck....

sorry reader

superhero hair layouts



































































heres some layouts from the shoot i did last weekend..i gotta admit











it was alot of fun being the photo boy rather than the art boy....

greenpeace work continued


heres a quick suess like image for the kids book i'm doing for green peace to

stop the over fishing in the pacific

Monday, July 21, 2008

sad fish in production


here's an image f my sad fish for greenpeace in production

a suessian book is on the way

new art and a new-ish direction


heres some new monsters for a gig that my buddy taz is
putting on..it feels nice dabbling in not only a broad use of
colour but also minamilism

Sunday, July 20, 2008

the superhero hair shoot











Friday, July 18, 2008

more monkey business

over the next few days i will be doing the drunken monkeys
rampage on the alpine village...heads and limbs will be torn
off..blood will flow ..and for some reason i am basing this
on the grinch..mainly because i am consumed with dr suess
at the moment
video

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

very rough monkey test

just fucking around with the look before getting serious on it next week
video

after 3 versions heres the final version of the new art for john columbus.

most of this was drawn in a doctors office with my son , waiting in line to get

vaccinations ..

Monday, July 14, 2008

monkey see monkey draw


heres some badly webcammed stills of the new version of the martin martini monkey.
the band asked for a drunker more homeless looking monkey so i made him a cross between
chaplins little tramp character and charles bukowski , the american poet


Saturday, July 12, 2008

new art



for some reason i had this idea of a mongal army on pool ponies for crooked fiddle...

cheeky fuckers


i dont know if i have been ripped off or not...if i have the stupid designer who

did it is letting me get all the credit anyway

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

first martin martini concept


i love that the monkey drowns the world in tears..if this gets the thumbs up i have about 3 weeks to do the whole clip...yikes

i have way too much fun




i count myself lucky that i get to come up with goofy ideas like these


and then people pay me to bring them to life..

Monday, July 7, 2008

new art for james edgar francis cd


i was thinking of this as one single long art work that covers the front and back and insides of the cd..much like the erasure art work for thom yorke is...

Friday, July 4, 2008

heres some nice things people have said about the clip on youtube

what an incredible clip. so creative, innovative and perfect -
completely adds even more meaning to the song. this is what
music videos should do. well done everyone involved!

Ohhh wow! thats amazing! i hope brisbane city dosnt run away
while im skipping around :) love it! Exellent animation

i love the song and the clip, it distracts u from the song a
bit but that makes me want to watch it again and again
as each time i watch it i see something new

Thursday, July 3, 2008

kate is now up on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8_TSneA3c

and its getting an amazing response..yay

click to watch high def for optimum viewing pleasure

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

new life for an old poster


so heres a poster i did for the crooked fiddle months and months ago but a week or so before the gig it was replaced with a greed hen image...thanks to joe its come back for their upcoming canberra gig

Monday, June 30, 2008

sherlocks daughter wanted for peacock murder


so tanya pitched me this idea of the child killing a peacock so i took it and tried to make it

more of a edward goery image..as his works are always showing kids doing messed up things

desperately seeking billy




here are some drafts for billy blue..jake challenor's new agency...


im really loving big legs at the moment...

Thursday, June 26, 2008

new poster art finished

and more on the way...
the idea is by tanya horo..the lovely front lady of sherlocks daughter..she wants a cute kid in the forrest shooting a pretty peacock with a bow and arrow..here is the rough sketch of the said cute kid...gypsie kid



Monday, June 23, 2008

emotional baggage

Photobucket
here's the first image from the leeroy lee melbourne tour poster..is pretty
much how it will be but with some big bold type added..the guys said they
wanted to be travellers in the poster as well as something to do with
luggage ..so when i think melbourne i think rain...although this was a no
brainer to conceptualise..to get the llok of was much harder..this went
through many incarnations

green peace concept art







here's some quick concept sketches for a Greenpeace campaign about over fishing..

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

KMH update

so just a quick update to say that kate is recut and looking sexier than ever..i have a new fave shot now...guess which one..and its not my cameo...so it and the mc suffa mix should be up soon..

in other news i will start the leeroy lee poster image of raining luggage in a luggage city today as well as the first image to be presented to greenpeace for a shirt...anyways that it for now...and a big hello to steve..thanks for reading fella..youre the acest

Monday, June 16, 2008

updates

so friday was an insane day ..ps sorry if you are trying to get the video to work..i had to take it down...and in further KMH clip news ..i got asked if i can do a recut and take out the silent movie cards...a prospect that makes me nervous..but anyways..

so i got offered another video clip this time with martin martini..should be great fun and im also doing a poster for leeroy lee..which should be a real cool deal seeing i dig him and i like the idea of doing something with luggage..anyways..bye for now

Thursday, June 12, 2008

kate miller heidke's mama

here it is in brilliant , slightly washed out , youtube technicolour...
A Hilltop hoods remix of the clip will be coming soon.

if it looks like it doesnt work...it does..just hit play..

all nighter




its done...yay yay ya..finished the last shot at 5 45 am and then slept till lunch and mixed the audio in and watched it with baited breath...i was suprised by how well it flowed as the other nights effort was like a blindfolded lumbering dinosaur...will post the vid once uploaded
these pics btw are taken throughout the long editing period and then when i cut in the last shot..how happy is my face

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

part one of final day

so last night was a bit of a nightmare as i edited into the wee hours of the morn only to discover that it was running way too long and without silent movie cards made no narrative sense...sigh..so i got three hours sleep ..got up for cassar on sunrise ( which i will post) and jumped head first into the monster kull..so far..circa four pm its looking good..much more textured and smoother than i had hoped for..touch wood it works out


my shot list done on a very rough manly ferry trip..ps this is no way to work

quick update

so ..its wednesday and the video is due friday..today is the end of animation and then an all nighter tomorrow will see the editing done...i'm beyond stressing now...im blissfully telling myself " it will get done" ...also tomorrow going to check out renee play brekkie central on sunrise..apparantly they will splash up my logo for her on the screens..i think thats maybe my first tv exposure..har har

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

the last week of kate

so this is just a heads up where i am up to with the last few days of kate
videops thats the beginning of bjork fantastic wunderlust video clip playing in the back ground

Thursday, June 5, 2008

oh dear

video

so heres my very very obvious cameo as frightened on looker number one..in fact i am the only one scared by building up rooting themselves in the entire city..ha ha..so true..hmm

what an ego plus my dorky vlog from 2 weeks ago


video

so just a few things seeing all i am doing at the moment is animating so i can reach the deadline of next friday...

first is that i have decided to give myself an animated cameo in the video clip as a shocked onlooker and the other thing is this dorky vlog i did a few weeks ago , so it had been six days since i found out jack was born and i hadnt gone back to the shot i was working on since i found out..and being a dweeb i decided to video just in case something else happenned..which it didnt..anyways ..back to work

Tuesday, June 3, 2008







so the direction of this poster started out as an idea of the landing at normandy on d-day bt with toy soldiers..3 days in i realised this idea was too big and may be better applied somewhere else..so i did what i always do when needing an idea.i walked to summer hill..while having a snakc the idea of a bear that thinks he's some kind of transport hit me..i juggled between train and ship for a while but the idea of seeing their little legs swimming won me over in the end..colour wise ..this is a recent fave

Monday, June 2, 2008

with less than 2 weeks left to go im getting a little animtion sore ( almost an entire sequenc done in one day today...yay) anyways im just posting this to remind myself how great vid clip animation can be

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

kate and the city


here's a promo image i just sent through to kates mgmt ..i think its gonna be used on her web sire and myspace to promote the video clip..yay..it begins


a quick reworking of a recent poster for becky...i like this better than the original..by a country mile

Monday, May 26, 2008





just a few quick stills...so i have told sony friday week and then a week for editing..damn i hope i make it...this video clip has been with me for way too long

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

better kate than never


so even though i am a fair way through the process of the kate miller video clip i still cant crack the way to draw kate..till this morning...twas funny it was watching enchanted last night that i realised that the best way to draw kate was in a classic disney sense but with a inner city edge...weird insperation..i know but i wont bawlk at it ..where ever it comes from

anyways this is my first " im happy with it.." sketches

waiting for crookedness poster


well here it is..finished yesterday...fingers crossed the band likes it...it reminds me very much of a wes anderson poster and it uses some of the best blues i've ever used..as weird as it is..im pleased with how it turned out

Monday, May 19, 2008

back in the saddle



so its been a few days since the birth of my son and its been a bit of a roller coaster ride...but today i fronted back up to work..aka my drawing table and computer and started work again..this time for a poster for crooked fiddle and waiting for guiness ( who have have a special place in my life )

so the finished version will probably be up within the next day but heres my coloured sketch for the main image..

Thursday, May 15, 2008

my latest art work



his name is jack sterling and he came to us yesterday as a complete
suprise...i would hazard to say the biggest suprise birth since jesus
but mary and joseph knew they were pregnant...i'm seeing him for the
first time today and i'm very nervous..what do you say to your son for the
first time...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008


early draft of the latest dead letter poster..
its an idea thats been there for a while and could have worked on atleast 3 0r
four of the bands i do work for but im glad its been used on deadletter..its seems the most them..ps dont read into it too much..i dont think all couples should be shot..

Tuesday, May 13, 2008



here's a couple of shitty web cam pics from my computer screen to show where i am at today...so the renee cd booklet is 99.5 % complete and the good news came in today that she has been signed up to universal ( i think ) ..twas a bit hectic this morning getting it done so jake could go off to the meeting with it..( it was a case of ultra high gear for about 40 minutes--the kind wherre you dont even go to the bathroom even though you really need to)

the other shitty pic that you can barely make out ) is the dead letter / ned collette poster i am working on..its a civil war murder drama...with puppets..

more of that in the next day or so

Monday, May 12, 2008

short update

spent most of the day working on the renee cd booklet...felt relieved when it dawned on me that the cd had gone in a different direction from what i originally intended and had worked out for the better ...a friend said i work best when i take complicated art works and make them look very simple...in this case it was definately the right formula

Saturday, May 10, 2008

kicking old school ..kinda


so i have been mister animation for weeks and weeks now so it felt really great to be asked not once but twice on the same day to do posters for both sui zhens melbourne gig and the small hours...so the story with this poster is that due to my hermitude o late the only streets i really see is the street that leads down to the corner store and every time i go down its always covered completely in fallen autumn leaves ...so this image came from a silly thought of sailing down the leafy street but that idea was not enough so i had to put these young sea men in peril ..what better way to do that than a big scary leaf monster..but dont be scared..the captain has a rake..anyways more soon

Thursday, May 8, 2008

make like a tree and leave

its been a crazy couple of days doing battle with toothaches , too many panadols and on top of that getting really sick but despite the downfall of my body and mind i have cut together a trailer for the kate miller video clip i have been working on for months....for me my proudest moment is the snow footage..anyways..enjoy

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

soon the call of the wild will be heard by an entire city

so..to add pressure to an already pressured situation sony has asked me to have a trailer cut together by friday for the kate miller video...sure it was my suggestion but it could not have come at a more pressured time when i have two posters that need doing and the completion of the renee booklet aswell as ruths mums business card...i love it , kinda , being this popular but it is beginning to take its toll on me ( very prophetic seeing i started all this because of a song called the toll )
..im starting to feel like a bit of a prisoner in my room these days and its giving me the jitters ( literally ..my anxiety attacks have come back ) anyways it should all work out and it could be worse......imagine if i had been selected for jury duty

Monday, May 5, 2008



so i have sent the first draft of to renee and her people and they loved it ..phew..so a few fix ups and the front cover should be on itunes within a few days..its a very different style for me...which feels great...keeps my creativity limbre...it will be a 10 page book which is pretty big for an EP but im happy to comply..plus Renee is one of the most supportive people i have worked with...
what else...
oh been doing a little work with darren hanlon to help out with his label..he's
a great person to have in your corner and also as per usual the KMH video clip just keeps getting bigger...the big daddy sequence should be done soon and i will be sure to post that

Friday, May 2, 2008

getting in the swing


i think im starting to get the hang of this after effects contraption
yay...a few more epic shots like this and i'll be happy..this is 0ne third of
a massive opening shot

renee art


its saturday morning..im tired...im wearing yesterdays clothes
im listening to radiohead at a volume level that conflicts with
my headache and i just drew this which is a return to my old style
of drawing.....so yeah..yay..its a brcketed border with a tripped out
star ...motif..fuck i hate using words like that..

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I nailed it


so i have been stressing about this logo...Renee and her team have been so supportive
and have had such faith in me that i was scared idea-less about what to do for them and then this dawned on me on the train home yesterday and within a day its come back with a hearty thumbs up....yay..now my van gough meets smashing pumpkins has to be done and im happy...
also on the kate front its going really well but i sometimes feel that im spending too long in the city ..need to do more cabin stuff

Monday, April 28, 2008

doing your civil duty

so yesterday was a bit of a blow out , i only got a few shots done due to the fact i spent half the day seeing whether i will be picked for jury duty..grrr if i do get picked its gonna make my job twice as hard and i am already suffering a little burn out...sigh..

Friday, April 25, 2008


heres the first roughs for Shoot the player...
been a busy week this week , with the final completion of
guys and dolls ( a nightmare ) ...lots of kate miller ( worked out
how to move in 3d space..very exciting ) and work with tony mott and
renee cassar..
a tad buggered today but the super fine kahn brothers was the elixer i needed last night

Monday, April 21, 2008

a few morsels from the weekend


oh what joy it will bring..piece of metal and a string


so its been crazy couple of days ...lots of animation has been taking place...as has the finishing and re-finishing and the re-re-finishing of the guys and dolls programme ...the good news is that sony isnt stressing about how long i have been taking ..phew..i hope the shots i send them really knock there socks off..
on another tangent darren hanlon seems pretty damn keen for me to do his video clip which will involve a super hero detective in a future retro city ..with a klutch cargo type effect on the mouths ( side note it was a massive compliment that daz got me to help him out putting last night together and had a really cool time kicking back with him afterwards )