Totoro Surprise

I was looking for inspiration tonight so I put on Spirited Away from studio Gibli. Obviously I didn't end up drawing a character from that movie but Gibli is always inspiring so I drew another of his characters and a surprise guest.

IF Immovable

There's nothing more immovable than a kid who is addicted to World of Warcraft!! I don't usually post my really loose sketchy style pictures but this just came to me and I rushed it out. Hope you like it.

Stuff

So here's some more random stuff from years past. You can see the cow in one of the few remaining one cell comic strips I did with his little companion the sheep. Next another one of hundreds of sketches from my piles of sketch books and a Spiderboy picture.

Group shot

Really pullin out the old stuff now. I drew this around 2002/03 I think when I was at Tafe, it was going to be for a comic cover. I think I had only just really learnt to start using photoshop properly at this point. I was and still am quite happy with the detailing of the characters in this image however the character design forthe most part is quite weak. My unfortunate drawback is I can draw things/characters that are already designed but I'm crap at designing my own.

EDIM

Another oldie I came across. It's pretty obvious how old this one is. The was for a class I took in electronic design a few years ago. There's a few friends of mine from this picture.

My good friend James Hart (black t-shirt with red dot) continued on his merry way to become a pro illustrator and you can see his stuff here: www.jameshart.com.au

And my other friend Jason Minos is doing awesome things with 3D/CG modellling and animation: www.jasonminos.com

The Cow!!

New post but quite an old picture. I used to do a weekly comic stip for some of my coworkers with this character. He didn't usually have a bong in his hands but I made this image of my character for a friend's birthday and put it on a t-shirt for her. She liked it so that's all that matters.

Lead Guitar

This one started out as a design for a t-shirt but it took about 5 months just for me to scan the original pencilled image. When I updated to windows 7 my old scanner didn't want to update with me so it took me a while to buy a new one. Aas you can see the guitar wasn't even part of the original image. I created that totally in photoshop which there is no inked only version of it.

Presented here hopefully for your viewing pleasure is a few stages that I go through to get a final image. I have made another version of the final rendering that has a more manga-ish colour design which I might upload later.

Class Portrait

On my recent teaching rounds I made a class portrait for the kids that I taught for my time in the school. I think it turned out rather well. I'm not usually very good at likenesses but I think on I did a pretty damn good job on this one.

Guest Colorist...

Anyone who know my drawing style can tell straight away I didn't draw this picture. It was done by my good firend James Hart (check out my links - Jims Blog) illustrator extrordinaire!! I asked if I could use his piture to practice coloring because at the moment my scanner is being useless and I cant scan my own drawings. This is the first instance of me coloring James' art or anyone elses for that matter and i'm quite pleased with the result.

Thanks for letting me borrow your sketch James.

IF Detective

This is my first post for a long time. This one seemed to fit the detective theme and its the first time I've ever drawn the Batman too. Hope you like it.