Here's Johnny!

OzComics is a group on Facebook with a weekly drawing challenge. I've been a bit reluctant to have a go, being busy with other stuff but decided to submit my first contribution after hearing of the current challenge - "The Shining"

You can also view my submission here

Leia

Finally got 'round to finishing this one off.
Star Wars Pin-up

Wicked Witch

Another Oz inspired pin-up

Dorothy

An Oz inspired pin-up

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,

Happy Valentine's Day!

A quick Cupid-inspired pin-up for Valentine's day

A couple of things

I've missed updating the ol' blog with these latest couple of things. The first is another work caricature...

 The other is this T-shirt design that I've submitted to another Threadless competition. The theme is "east meets west". You can vote for my design here- http://beta.threadless.com/loftwork/western-sunrise/

T-shirt design

I've got a T-shirt design up for voting in Threadless' latest challenge. It's a "Monsters Inc" theme.
I'd appreciate some votes if you follow this link - http://beta.threadless.com/monstersinc/the-scare-door-3/
You'll need to create an account to vote but that's quick and easy.

Cheers

Christmas Cheesecake

Keeping the tradition that I started two years ago, here's this year's Christmas themed pin-up

... and a more "adult" version



Pimping my work

After a recent t-shirt design for a friend proved somewhat popular and the success of a couple of friends in similar ventures, I've decided to try and see if my artwork can generate some interest in the accessories market and therefore have modified some of it to iPhone and iPad case cases for sale on Red Bubble.
Check me out here
I'm planning on adding more and expanding into t-shirts as well in the new year so if you'd like to accessorise with my art or wear my art, you'll make this artist rather chuffed.

Fanboy : Horror

The latest Artboy Fan exhibition opens tonight with the theme being horror. I've only entered the one piece this time, I didn't have time to finish Elvira that I posted for Halloween and so I've done "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" the Kristy Swanson version.

Hope ya like...

Faun

lunchtime doodle

Happy Halloween

I know it's a couple o' days late but here ya go...

...something else I haven't finished

Something old

Here's some concept art I did about three years ago as part of a pitch for a tv series pilot which never went ahead...

 

 

Fanboy: Games

Here are my pieces from the latest Artboy Gallery Fanboy exhibition that was up at the Sydney Games Expo on the weekend just gone. Word back from the gallery was that everyone's submissions were well recieved.
The theme was obviously game-based, so here's my interpretations of Ridge Racer's Reiko Nagase and Tomb Raider's Lara Croft. Both are 15" x 12" prints

I'm told my Lara raised a few eyebrows :)

Mermaid

a slight variation on the pin-up theme...

Drawing Talk

A few weeks ago, I was asked by my daughter's teacher to give a talk to the class on drawing. My daughter had taken in some of my drawings for something and the subject was raised.
What to say, I thought...
Well, apart from the obvious "yes" I worked something out and organised a time to go in.
It's not something I'd done before- I was a little nervous being put on display in front of a group of Grade 2 students.
I gave a little bit of background on myself and explained that I had a job drawing pictures, that when I was growing up my Dad worked in a bank and that I didn't know people could have a job drawing pictures. I said how I'd worked on a bunch of TV series and movies and showed the covers of some of the Disney movies that I'd worked on. There were raises of hands from those who'd seen particular ones. I then explained a little bit about animation, how it takes 24 drawing to make one second of animation and that in a week you might only make seven seconds of animation. I explained how it took lots of people to make an animated movie and that many of us have to draw the same character and that to draw these characters they are all built up from simple shapes and construction.
From there I then launched into some demos and drew Mickey Mouse and some other Disney characters that I could remember drawing. It was great fun watching and listening to their reactions as I stepped through the process.
The class were all then handed drawing boards, sheets of paper and a pencil and joined in, creating their own Mickey Mouse pictures which have ended up proudly hung around the classroom.

The positive reaction from all of the class was great, the eagerness that they watched with, some great questions. It was loads of fun.

FanBoy sneak peeks

Here's some sneak peeks of a couple of pieces I've recently completed for another Fanboy exhibition.

More to be revealed soon...

New coffee cup

Not much of a post, but hey, I made a coffee cup featuring some of my pin-ups.

Quite happy with the result combining colour and pencil sketches.

I have been working on more, will post soon.

A girl and her Cooper

Another caricature for a leaving card...