Sydney Oz Comic Con 2015

I don't post often, but when I do it's because I'm announcing a weekend trip.

Once again it's convention time will be at the artist alley drawing and having a jolly good time, if you're in Brisbane and heading to Oz Comic Con drop in an say hi.

August catch up...

Well it has been a while since I posted anything here, this year has for the most part been busy and it's been job after job. I guess busy is as busy does:
So as a personal challenge and a studio job had popped up I decided to do an exercise in drawing something other than caricatures and give digital painting

Vicki Curlz the Hipster Girl

The Lighning Wyrm, a concept piece I came up with based loosely on a pet axolotl I have.

Aladdin fan art... R.I.P Robin Williams 

Stylised realistic tiger, I ran out of time so I threw the "cut out" filter over the top and called it a day. 

Supanova Gold Coast 2015

The next convention for 2015 is here will be drawing live this weekend at Supanova Gold Coast. Should be pretty sweet.

The Convention Circuit Tour 2015

Yep the time has come once again to do the conventions will be heading to Melbourne for the first Supanova of the year.

Pokemon-th - A fan art retrospective by Ed Dyer -

Like many who grew up in the 80's and 90's we had pretty much an open buffet of pop culture to enjoy, for us it was a time when the internet was only just becoming available as the first dial up modems we're making their way into our homes, mobile phones (if any of us had them) could at best, play a grainy Gameboy display version of "snake".

 So television was king, not just for TV shows (which I'll get to down the track) but video games. In particular Pokemon burst onto the scene into the cultural zeitgeist and has been with us ever since.

So without further ado here's Pokemon-th counting backwards from #151 from the first version of Pokemon I played as a kid here's Mew and Mewtwo!

#151

Wearing pink is so 2005...

My brother was more into the game than I was, but I do remember Mew. Mysterious, bizarre and, like the majority of the smaller characters, pushing on the kawaii scale (a word I learnt when I attended the 2013 ISCA convention) 

Mew seemed to get top billing as the ultimate, but I still think Mewtwo is cooler.

#150

Mewtwo to me at least, felt like a cross between Frieza from DBZ and...

Hippety Hop from Looney Tunes.

Well that's it for today's Pokemon-th, tune in tomorrow for #149 and beyond...   

Void Berg

I got to playing Hearthstone late last year, and it's a fun little game which combines the competitive card game dynamics of 'Magic the Gathering' with the inevitable grind and frustration of the multiplayer losing streak. All without having to go out to the store and getting the physical cards.

When I first heard the Voidwalker's voice I was instantly reminded of Dr. Zoidberg from the show Futurama, which not only lives on in the form of internet memes, but strangely keeps getting better with age. 

Why? We may never know...

I can totally drive now

My key has a Loki key chain...

The Anime Director, a character design.

Stylistically I've always found anime fascinating so I thought it fitting to create a character based on the kind of artistic decisions that go into producing the weird and wonderful artform. 

Happy 500th Post!!! DUB SMASH

From me to you :D

Technically this is post 489 but as I have to get around to publishing them let's just enjoy it for what we think it is.

Steve from Mine Craft Caricature, First Fan Art of 2015

Welcome to 2015!! If you're new to my blog or have accidentally clicked on a link and found yourself back here, well hello there, we meet again.

I'm a freelance Illustrator by trade specialising in caricatures, cartoons and graphic illustrations. I also paint, sculpt and work both traditionally and digitally. Along with a whole bunch of commission artwork, I also dabble in fan art.  

I got into Minecraft last year, kind of a "let's see what all the fuss is about" type deal, I'm kind of at that age where I'm old enough to know I'm kind of not into so many things that are in the zeitgeist.

Essentially it was this episode of South Park that got me into it.

And I still don't get the appeal of the game :P

Meet Steve, initially I was confused by the character design and it prompted a few questions, for example:

Stand back from your screen and allow your eyes to unfocus for a few seconds...

• Why is he crosseyed? 
• Is that a five o'clock shadow or is his face dirty?
• Where is his nose?
• Does he have eyebrows?
• Are those supposed to be lips?
• Is he making a duck face?
• Is that a goatee or is he smiling?
• Also his shirt, is it tattered or untucked?

Now granted, I understand that when everything in retro look sandbox game is supposed to look like a pixel in the witness protection program (you can only do so much with everything being essentially a Rubik's cube with an 8 bit palette). 

 There's most definitely a wiki page devoted entirely to these nagging FAQ's

But honestly as I grew up with the original NES and Atari consoles (never owned a console but had friends and family who had them) and that I  pretty much study faces for a living I thought about it some more and after playing the game for a little while this is what I interpreted the face to look like.

This is what I see when I look at this character... And when you stare long enough into the abyss, sometimes it stares back at you... and wants a kiss apparently.

Happy New Year to all my friends and Family on the other side of the world ^___^