Mickey T-shirt

I've got another T-shirt design up for voting Folks.
Vote me a "5" if you want to se my design printed.
Here's the link- http://beta.threadless.com/mickey/shirtless-mickey-2/
Thanks,

Rejected

I entered a T-Shirt competition last week. Threadless were having a competition where you had to design a t-shirt featuring a Disney Villain. I didn't find out about it until there was only a few days left. Nonetheless I knocked out the design below. Rather than run with the standard fare, I thought I'd have a bit of fun and show that the Queen of Hearts from "Alice In Wonderland" wasn't just a baddie, but was also a bit naughty and present her as a pin-up. Unfortunately the folk at threadless declined my contribution because I'd altered her costume.
I had fun creating her tho'
Next time I'll pay better attention to the rules

Donald Family Pic

This one's been on the to-do list for a few months, but I've been a bit busy with fulltime work, freelance and parenthood. My son's kinder teacher and her husband are big Disney fans and asked me a few months ago upon learning that I used to work for the House of Mouse if I could draw them a picture of Donald Duck and his family.
During my time at Disney I never actually drew Donald, the only classic character I touched was Mickey, but hey, I'm up for a challenge. It helps that I've got a nice collection of model packs from my time there and Donald and Daisy were amongst them. What I was surprised to learn was there's very little in the way of model sheets for the nephews.
Anyway, I've finished this pic just in time, as it's my son's last day of kinder for the year tomorrow. This should make a nice Chrissy present.
Here's the rough below for those who're interested. Initially roughed in pencil, then assembled in photoshop and a second pass done, before redrawing in pencil for the final piece. I did a little adjust on Daisy and Donald's heads in the final version above.

Stitch for Ash

A girl I work with is apparently a big fan of Stitch from "Lilo and Stitch" and a few days ago after learning I worked on the sequel dashed over to ask for a pic. Despite it being seven years since I worked on the film I'm surprised how well I remember how to draw him. He's a lot of fun too.
This one will become a tattoo...

Here's the couple of roughs I did exploring some ideas and working up to the final image.

Disney Marvel merger

I couldn't help myself.... my comment on the recent buy-out of Marvel by Disney

Disney Princess Mural

Finally, it's finished, the Disney Princess mural that I've been working on for my daughter for the past 2-3 months. It's been an interesting process- I've wondered at times what I'd gotten myself into, bending around in funny angles trying to paint sections; but I'm more than happy with the result and so is my daughter.

Here's the process outlined below. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Rather than do a more traditional wall wrap-around mural like these two here and here than further inspired me to get moving, I opted instead to paint it on my daughter's sliding wardrobe doors. I figured that they would never be obscured, so it would be a great "canvas" for a mural.

Here the doors have been painted with the base coat-

Now the artwork was enlarged to size (the two large pieces are A0 size) and positioned with the linework to be carbon transferred onto the doors-

Me starting with some of the colours. Unlike the previous mentioned murals I didn't think that placing the mural on the bottom half of the doors would result in me cramping myself onto the floor in order to paint the low sections-

More colours done-

The bulk of the colours are now painted-

The whites are now painted-

Filling in the eyes, and now ready for the black-

In order to make life easy on myself I decided to paint the linework with the surface flat-

What a task this proved to be. "OO" paintbrush and thin lines = lots of hours and a sore back-

Nearly there-

First door in place-

Second door in place-

Ta Dah!!! All finished!-

Close on right-hand door-

Close on Tinkerbell at the top of the right-hand door (there's fairy dust coming off her wand also, which unfortunately isn't too visible in the photo)-

Close on Left-hand door-

A very happy little girl with her Princesses-

The aftermath, lots of paint sample pots and a few exhausted brushes-

S is for Snow White

Here's the last of the official Disney Princesses, Snow White for my daughters mural.
Stay tuned, the mural will be finished shortly...

J is for Jasmine

Here's the princess all the boys seem to like, Jasmine

B is for Belle

Another Princess for the mural. It's nearing completion, probably only a couple of weeks to go.

Some inspiration to share

Here's a collection of Disney animation drawings from the classic golden years of the studio that were assembled for some of us while I was working at the Sydney studio. Fantastic inspiration to just look at constantly. In fact, I have these images with a textured paper backdrop as my wallpaper on my computer at work.

A is also for Aurora

I'm a little surprised how few people actually know the name of the title character from "Sleeping Beauty", then again she does have two names.
I love the character design of this film

A is for Ariel

C is for Cinderella

Here's the next one in the collection, and the only one I actually drew as part of a production. It's a pity my daughter wasn't a couple of years older as she is mad on Cinderella, and it would've been a great kick to be working on her with my Daughter aware of it all.