Character Style Sheet

Hello all,
I finished a character style sheet last night for a medieval foot solider character. I thought I would share it with the world. I completed the line work by hand in pen and ink and then coloured the piece in Corel Painter. Enjoy!

Steal-Life

I was invited to display a slide show of my illustrations on the web-site Steal-Life.com
This is a great website that contains a huge collection slide shows from some very talented photographer and artists. It's well worth checking out. Of course while you are there you can check out some of my work on the following link. http://www.steal-life.com//showitoff_slideshow.php?ssdir=6b70710d6efc87bf36cf842acc87672d
Hope you enjoy it.

Good Folk Exhibition

My apologies for the huge amount of time that has passed since I last placed a blog.
It's been several months and quite a bit has happened since I last placed a blogged. It is these events that have kept me so distracted that I have struggled to find the time to keep regular entries on this blog.
First of all I have been involved in a group exhibition that ended earlier this month on the 4th of May. It ran only for a week, but it was great fun to display some work get some very positive feed back from the public. I would like to send a big thanks to the other very talented illustrators whom I shared the exhibition with, they included Helena Babic, Sam Quan and Neil Sanders. Many thanks guys!

Story board art

I have been approached by a company called drawasyousnore.
They expressed an interest in promoting me on their website as a story board artist how they could outsource work to. These are some of the story board images they will be using to promote me on their site.

IA conference

Well it may have quite some time ago now, but I do feel its worth discussing the Illustrator Australia inaugural Illustration festival. The festival included the launch of the 10th edition of the Illustrators Australia book. This occurred on the October the 26th an was held in conjunction with the 9x5 exhibition held by IA members.
The opening night was a raging success with about 31 of the 64 paintings on offer selling!
The opening night was followed by a weekend of lecture. The subjects included legal issues regarding ownership or art work. Financial entitlements illustrators and authors of material that is used by schools and libraries regularly are entitled to.
Various established and up and coming illustrators also discussed the approach they have taken to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator.
Other speaker included accounts and agency representatives.
The two days of speeches were finished of by a discussion panel of industry representative hosted by Ned Culic.
This kind of event had never been attempted before in IA, and was a brilliant organised by the IA committee.
Well done I say!

9 by 5 Exhibition

Illustrators Australia are launching their latest exhibition titled 9 by 5. Each member of the IA was given a small plank of wood 12.5 cm by 22.5 cm high, and asked to create and illustration based on the theme connected. Being a member of IA I was given the oppurtunity to submit a piece and it seems to have made the cut.
All of art works will be auctioned off on the 25th of October at the Gallery Space 39. The event kicks off at 6pm. So if you are in Melbourne this Thursday come on down to level 2, building number 39 on Little Collins Street and check out some art.
The auction is part of the launch party for first annual Illustrators Australia festival. The night will also see the launch of the newly upgrade IA website and the launch of the 10th edition of the Illustrators Australia Book.
So a fun time should be had by all. I have uploaded my image for the exhibition. If you would like to check out some of the other works that will be on display on the night check out the link to the IA website! http://www.illustratorsaustralia.com/cpg/

Picturesque launch

Last Friday night was the launch of the Picturesque Exhibition.
It was held at the North Melbourne town hall, and it looked great!
The exhibition is a collection of works produced by past and current North Melbourne Institute of TAFE students. As I mentioned in my last post all works relate to the theme of identity.The exhibition has a real circus / carnival feel, which really suited the complimentary performances, held on the night.

The exhibition is layout out with 16 large panels (80 cm by 200cm) all standing side by side in a slight arch. This ark of panels encircles two display cases that look like miniature circus tents. These display units have a colourful collection of dioramas and painted dolls.

The show is open till the 12th of October, so check it out!