The flood
As well as working 2 days out-of-the-house and 3 days in-the-house, I’ve been putting together a few pieces for a group exhibition. As many a first novel is a thinly veiled distillation of the author’s...
View ArticleDrowning houses
Here are two pieces constructed using a mixture of relief printing techniques and linedrawing. So hopefully now the architecture ghost is well and truly exorcised…
View ArticleA machine for pairing socks
Here is a machine for pairing socks. We are very behind on housework here. Does anyone want to organise a patent and make one? Initial sketch: My 5-year-old’s sketch (with antlers for sorting):
View ArticleInky madness
“So, YOU’RE the messy one…” says the friendly, burly bloke stood behind me at the Last Peek Live Life-Drawing event for Melbourne’s Northern Exposure Festival. My role is to be one of several ‘artists’...
View ArticleUnfortunate children – final
It’s hard to draw when you can’t breathe through your nose, but I’ve given it my best shot. Here are the completed “unfortunate kids” (a folio piece, perhaps) from my sketchbook. Click to enlarge..
View ArticleWork in progress – small monsters
Moving house, new jobs, and my attempting to get some kind of illustration folio together have delayed this blog a little – but here’s a few working spreads from a book-in-progress. I’ve decided to put...
View ArticleElephants are hard.
I’ve been trying to get together a few standard animal pix for my portfolio. It seems animals are required for children’s illustrators. The thing is – I can’t help but illustrate them (the elephants)...
View ArticleBilly goats – the graphic novel
Here are a three (of six) pages from The True Story of the Billy Goats Gruff, which is not so different from the popular story, but with smarter goats… Page 1: Page 2: Page 5:
View ArticleBoy in a tiger suit
I’ve been trying to develop this character for a while. He’s an angry little boy who wants a Band Aid really badly, despite his lack of visible injury. It seemed to me he belonged in a tiger suit, but...
View ArticleZombies and wizards
Never one to miss the opportunity to draw dozens of ogres, I started these spreads to send to a competition. Coughs and splutters got in the way of the deadline, but I learned a bit in the process of...
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