Portfolio
Catamarans Vs. Monohulls
This illustration was produced for Brent Herman at The Catamaran Company, to illustrate the advantages of a multihulled catamaran over a single-hull yacht.
Cybersmart Pigs
This is a composite of some characters I’ve done for Cybersmart, an internet service provider who’s mascot is the pig you see here.
Jungle Girl on Bear
This is the result of looking at a bunch of Frank Frazetta stuff. I wanted to do something in a similar vein (buxom ladies and ferocious beasts) but in my own more comic-bookey style.
Portfolio Cover- Devi the Muse
I did this illo to use as a cover page for my printed portfolio. I wanted a striking image that would have some relevance to me and my profession, without doing something obvious like a self portrait. I was hiking up Signal Hill one day and started thinking about muses, and got to wondering what my muse would look like. After a while I thought that this would make an awesome illustration, so I headed home and pulled out the sketchbook, and after some hard graft with pencils and Wacom tablet, the end result is this. I’ve always really liked the imagery used in Hinduism, so I based my muse on Saraswati, the goddess of music and learning (although the pose is from Shiva-Nataraja.) I play guitar, hence the choice of Saraswati and why she’s playing a guitar (specifically a cherryburst Les paul, like the one Jimmy Page played.) She’s holding a sketch book and pencils, because I’m an illustrator, and she’s giving the devil-horns, because that’s totally metal. She’s standing on a sloth holding a Playstation controller, because laziness and video games are my biggest threat to creativity.
So all of that, and also I just felt like drawing a hot blue chick with six arms and a guitar and big boobs. And feet. Apparently I draw women with big feet.
Fun Fair Concepts
These were done for a comic I used to work on for Strika called Carousel, which was about a magical carousel horse. I did these as rough colour concepts for the funfair where the majority of the comic was set. I wanted to try and capture the colours of a sunset and a night at the funfair with lots of lights, to try and steer things away from basic “grass is green, sky is blue and that’s it” colouring.
Lions & Tigers & Bears
I did this to try and break away from the comic book style stuff I’d been doing mostly at Strika. I wanted to try something a bit more graphic-designey, using different techniques to the ones I sued every day drawing comics. I traced the seperate elements of the illustration using brush pens, then scanned these drawings into Photoshop where they were composited and coloured. A lot of people have said that this would make a great t-shirt design, and I hope to make that happen sometime soon!
Strike Zone Cover
This is the cover of an issue of Strike Zone that I illustrated. Strike Zone was a baseball comic that we did at Strika for a Panamanian soft-drink company. They wanted a comic based around Carlos Lee, who is an actual real life baseball player. In this issue, Carlos went to help out at a baseball camp for underprivileged kids, but got trapped there by a big storm. And all this before a big important match! Dun-dun-DUUUUH!
Carrion Bird
This was another experimant to break away from the usual comic book stuff I was doing. It was done using the same techniques as the Lions and Tigers and Bears piece, with the seperate elements drawn from photos with brush pens, then scanned, composited and manipulated in Photoshop. Don’t ask about the subject matter. Sometimes images just pop into my head and I think “That would make a cool illustration.” I could try and provide an explanation of what this thing represents, but honestly I wan’t really thinking any further than “Skeleton bird man with octopus wings! Lots of skulls and bones! Yeah!”