Sketch Jam: (Stream Labs Test) He-Mandalorian, Barbie and other Stuff

Timelapse Toons

Seems fitting to really start making more short films based off my drawings, this is how a digital caricature commission takes shape, the music is the classic "Tarantella" song which has, for better or worse become the stereotype soundtrack of Naples Italy.

Thirsty Work: My triumphant return to animation

 It's been roughly 9 years since I've done anything in the world of animation on anything beyond a hobbyist level scale, while I briefly returned to the world of being an animation student back in 2012 but to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: "Life... gets in the way" 

So my career in animation partially stalled, but now... appears to be slowly reviving

Almost as if it just got a new lease on life 

Rain bombs and Long walks on the Beach

 It hasn't rained like this in ages, one of those once in a 100 years events I guess. Anyway since I've decided to dedicate Sundays to Social medias I figured it'd be good to post some new stuff.

Down by the Beach: Lord of the Rings in Cronulla

 

Mostly people from Sydney would get this reference...

The work train is full steam ahead and that small window of uncertainty that was 2020 is now a fading memory, commissions are officially closed for March.

First Convention of 2021: Back to the old Drawing Board

It was a decent hiatus, but it's even better to be back. My bookings are all ready to go and I'm going to be drawing live again for events at upcoming dates and locations around the country.

 

Space Jam: Resurrecting Way-Back-Wednesday

 One of my all time favourite sports movies is Space Jam. The Looney Tunes were everywhere back during the 90's, some weird and some downright bizarre, yet valiant efforts, were made to make these characters cool. 

Michael Jordan was coming to the end of his career as a baseball player (a sport which though he was passionate about did not excel), and subsequently signed up to play the real life "straight man" alongside Bugs Bunny to herald his triumphant return to professional basketball...

the 90's era sports movie to end all 90's era sports movies...

I was still in high school when this came out, and while I never liked basketball... I did like this

These guys went through something of a Renaissance during the 1990's

...and some not so memorable experimentations...

...to wind up back to basics (with some caveats to appease modern audiences)

Get your Ox off

 I prefer to base my New Year's Resolution around the Chinese Lunar Calendar, the Gregorian New Year is really no time to be making grandiose announcements regarding dramatic and/or inconsequential lifestyle changes... besides everyone is recovering from hangovers and the holidays are in full swing.

Since it's the Year of the Ox and me fortunate enough to live in Australia (yes it really is the actual lucky country) I figured it'd be perfect timing for me to post a new year's selfie.

  

Spotify Live 2020

 

Getting a corporate commission is nothing new for me, but getting a corporate commission from an app I use to stream play music and the occasional podcast from the U.S. itself was a completely new experience, rewarding, fun, a little daunting at times when it came to figuring out the tax code, but I got there in the end and I'm super happy with how it turned out.

Subliminally yours: The COVID "Cute" Factor

"Friends aren't food"

-Bruce the Great White Shark, Finding Nemo.

Domino's Best: A Fan Art

 Domino from X-Men, I still am not entirely sure what her powers are, but her costume is pretty cool, drew this one back in 2019 before the lock-down.

Venom and Gwen, Dumb and Dumber: A Winter Tribute Fanart

Dumb and Dumber was, and is (despite the heartbreaking midlife crisis Jim Carrey happens to be currently going through) my favourite 90's era road trip movie. If you haven't seen it, think 'Of Mice and Men' if both protagonists are Lenny, and one of the films that cemented star, James Eugene Carrey in the hearts and minds of the movie going public as the funniest man alive. 

(Spoiler Alert: This miracle run of awesome luck wouldn't last long)

  

Of Ayn Rand and Audio Books

 

Been reading more during the lockdown since COVID 19 hit, and by "reading" I mean audio books because I still gotta work and, let's face it, I'm still working every day and just as easily distracted by everyday life to sit down and enjoy quietly reading a novel... 1st world problems, are still problems. 

May the Fourth, or September the First

 

Greeting cards, Books and Merchandise

 

Some Amazing Live Wedding Caricatures: My First Live Gig since the March 2020 Lockdown

The Day the World Stood Still: China, Australia, New Zealand, COVID19 and the Global Sick Day

 

As the herd immunity increases and the hysteria fades, for most healthy individuals the worst part will be the "Great Toilet Paper Shortage of March" and the worst will be practically having your brain skewered through your nose like it was the obligatory probing in every alien abduction story.

Being in a relatively low risk area my experience was the former...

New Zealand however wasn't so lucky, still luckier than most, but first female Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a woman who bears more than a passing resemblance to a young Shelley Duvall (the actress who played the mother from the 1981 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Stephen King novel "The Shining") was riding high on her flawless, over achieving babysitter style of of governing, and, up until last week (I would've posted this sooner but the nature of my business can come in intermittent waves) was about to announce her reelection campaign.

Then "IT" struck...

Suddenly a small, unexplained, family cluster of the virus was discovered, the panic buying kicked in, the entire country went into "standby" mode (this included the South Island, but to a far lesser extent but even they were forced into the bunker)  

Miss Ardern, her co-prime minister and the rest of her team have since shelved the plans for now and, despite experiencing nowhere near the level of craziness that is happening across the pond...  

How to Trump your Dragon: The 2020 U.S. Election

 

In 2016 the phenomenon that is the Donald Trump presidential campaign came into existence, bright amazing reality, berated in the mainstream media (to this day) but something unique, something amazing and something truly historical... is happening again...

Stay tuned

Dr. Eve, Mutant Laboratories: A Fallout DLC Concept Art Piece

 Fallout

Playing around with some concept art and pin up ideas the inspiration for this one came from the patches included with Fallout 4. Being a fan of the original Fallout game (the top down isometric platform game with turn based movement and combat based on virtual dice rolls) the whole idea of mutations, birth defects caused by radiation exposure and genetic splicing to create a race of super soldiers was essentially the main story line of the game. So I figured I'd take it one step further, the basic premise being much like the Wasteland Workshop DLC's this would focus on creating monsters, capturing test subjects, fighting them in arenas or using them in raids (or even helping out around the settlement) as I no longer have the spare time to devote to the lifestyle of anything beyond the casual gamer, I figured this idea (while cool) wasn't something I could pursue for now.   

Back from Beyond... 2020

 Yes it really has been that long since I last posted anything here, turns out life really does get in the way and, as one Mr. Ferris Bueller once pointed out, moves pretty fast.

What's been going on during the long blogger hiatus? 

I've left Luna Park, grown a sweet beard, began teaching myself piano (and at some point the violin) started devouring audio-books and currently am looking forward to the second half of 2020 being truly awesome...

Because it is indeed an election year.

Now living in Australia, a country which up until communist sympathizer and all around wolf in sheep's clothing Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews dropped the corona virus ball, was relatively COVID-19 free watching the events unfolding and leading up to the greatest U.S election in my lifetime has been one of guarded joy and celebration on the slow cooker. 

Anything can happen.

But I am remaining eternally positive, which is why, ironically, I'm reopening the old Blog and getting pack into posting here...

Well that and I recently Googled myself and my work, I need to step up my social media game!