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

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

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

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 .

going to the chapel.....

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

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

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

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

sweet snuffings

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

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

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

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

time to go a little different
time to go futuristic

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

the spruced suess duece

the 2nd poster for the monthly indie
night club

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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...

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..

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

more daz goodness

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

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

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

early days

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...

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

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

silly mexican wave hat

yay head wear based on puns..

this was for nats mexican party

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

speed drawing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

smells like teen spirit

heres the finished (unless changes are asked for)

version of the high school campaign for atyp

heres another stage in the teen beasts

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

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

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

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

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.

urban monster children

a new version for the atyp monster

poster ad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

john columbus demo cd art

this image will also be carried through

to the poster art for the hoey residency in

novemeber

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

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

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

the town of magnificent

The town is really starting to take shape.

which is a good thing seeing this is due early

nextweek

sweded posters

cassettopus series

three options sent to fuzzy

cassettopus

final version of this poster up soon

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

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

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

a sequel in the works

so i have decided to do a sequel poster

for john columbus for their upcoming

hopetoun residency

???????

there's something weird going on and

i think its gonna get weirder......

ooh secrets

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

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

???????????

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

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

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

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

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

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

the rumpus grows

heres the first 3 rows of monster dancers for the
field day poster all lined up and crumping

let the rumpus begin

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

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

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

renee art

completed over many days , locations and

modes of transport this poster is an ode

to the old and the new..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

the superhero hair shoot

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

very rough monkey test

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

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 ..

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

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

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..

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

emotional baggage

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..

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

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

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

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

the last week of kate

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

oh dear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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...

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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 )