Action illustration

I felt like doing a action illustration, so I did this illustration based on a photograph I found of two football players.

IA display at Northern Exposure Festival

During the last weekend I worked with other members of the IA committee to create a display window for the upcoming Northern Exposure Festival. Below is an email that IA is circulating to its members, if you can make it you should come on down and check it out!

ILLUSTRATORS AUSTRALIA @ NORTHERN EXPOSURE 08

As part of the annual Northern Exposure Arts Festival taking place in
High Street, Northcote on June 20 - 22, IA have taken over a shop front
at 241 High Street. Take a stroll around the galleries and wander past
our fabulous installation (on display for that weekend only).

Official opening Friday 7pm June 20 at the Northcote Uniting Church -
hope to see you there!

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Daniel Atkinson
Matt Clare
Lisa Coutts
Beth Croce
Andrea Innocent
Sonia Kretschmar
Jeremy Ley
Jody Pratt

For more details visit http://www.northernexposure.org.au

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!