Merry Lamb

I'm posting a few things I created for Uni assignment work completed in my final semester at the end of this year. This assignment was based on an identity for a baby and toddler wear brand (fictional). I created a retro style lamb logo, associated website homepage, swing tag, tshirt illustrations and even screen printed a couple of t-shirts as samples. It was a really enjoyable project to work on and it was particularly eye opening to find out just how much work is involved in screen printing your own tshirts!



The Merry Lamb logo uses a full colour illustration with hand rendered text below.



This little retro cowboy illustration was created as a possible tshirt design.



These are the two tshirts I printed at Megalo. The illustration is based on a painting I completed a few years ago.

Elizabeth Rohm Illustration

It's been waaaaaaaay too long since I last made a post and that's mainly because I've been busy doing uni assignments. Now that assignments are done and dusted, I can post up a few projects I've been working on. These illustrations are to accompany an article on Elizabeth Rohm (Angel, Law & Order) in the next issue of Lip magazine (http://lipmag.com/) I kept them in a comic book style as I think it suits the shows she appears in. I look forward to seeing how the magazine comes together with a collaboration of various different illustration styles and techniques.

GRAPHIC 2011 - Sydney Opera House, sketchnotes




Sketchnotes sample from 'Oz comics show and tell' panel

 



Sketchnotes sample from 'Oz comics show and tell' panel and my lunch break!

 
I had a fantastic weekend at GRAPHIC held at the Sydney Opera House. I found the weekend very inspiring and learnt heaps of tips and tricks for comic making. The panel was great this year, very engaging and added a voice to comics from their creators. I also joined Mandy Ords table for the 'Comic Making workshop' which eventually dwindled down to two participants since no-one was aware it was a 4 hour workshop and most folks had booked into another event at the same time. It was like a one on one tutorial (with two - ummmm) I got loads out of it including creating two A5 pages of a comic in half an hour which got the adreniline pumping! Mandy has those pages and might print them up into a mini comic and post a copy. If she has time! I imagine she'd be pretty busy with more serious comic making projects :-D The Gotye concert with accompanying animation was just brilliant! The new album has a very cruisy, layed back feel so think I'll be grabbing me a copy. I finished off the event with a Jim Woodring http://www.jimwoodring.com/ pen and ink workshop where we completed a few drills and got the basics on using nibs plus plenty of advice on the best nibs, paper, ink and reference materials to use. When I get a spare moment (!) I'll give it another shot. Can't wait for GRAPHIC to roll around again next year!

Illustration Friday - Obsession and Perennial



Obsession



Perennial

 I didn't quite get last weeks illustration finished in time so here it is with this weeks. A Perennial Hibiscus flower is worn in the hair of my retro style tattoo lady. 'Obsession' captures unrequited love. She'll continue picking the petals from daisies until she receives the answer she wants!

Illustration Friday - Gesture

During Restoration England, women often used a fan to perform gestures.

Fist Full of Comics - Part Two

For those who went out and bought Fist Full of Comics issue 9 with part one of my 'India Ink' comic (thanks for your encouragement by the way!), issue 10 is out now with the second part of the comic. Go grab one!

Fist Full of Comics cover - issue 10

India Ink, part two - sneak peak

Illustration Friday - Stay and Remedy

Stay



Remedy



I didn't finish 'Remedy' in time to go up last Friday so I'm posting it with this weeks submission. It's based on those 1940's adverts for amazing cures for everything you can imagine with long, complicated names. I have a collection of magazines from the 1900's through to the 60's and got some inspiration from those for both of these illustrations. 'Stay' is an illustration of a very well travelled lady from the 1920's who's just arrived at another destination.