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.

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. 

Let it grow, Poison Ivy/Frozen fan art piece

It's probably not all that hard to see where the inspiration came from for this one, that's right, Batman!

I've been drawing a lot lately, it's weird when you get into a rhythm and ideas just keep coming, this one is kind of the organic process pretty much how I work. It's also one of the reasons I'm grateful to have a phone that I can put notes in, it's like being bombarded all the time from within.

Since everyone and their dog has had a shot at the classic Frozen song  'Let it go' (aka this generation's Hakuna Matata) I figured why not, in my typically fashionably late fashion do my own version. As I'm not much for singing I felt drawing something would probably be more appropriate.

Avengers comic a fan art piece

This was sitting in my sketch collection for just over a year so I decided to ink and colour it- WIP 

FRANK tribute fan art comic

Kind of in the vein of political satire and meta humour which I like to occasionally dip my toe in, reading the comic book FRANK is more of an immersive experience than anything else I've read in a long time. Like a silent surrealist film in comic form the lush and decorative wood cut styles of Jim Woodring's art make each panel vibrate with a life of it's own, the barely audible hmmm resonating from white noise. I just wanted to make it self aware with my own tribute version, using current events.

Dragon Ball Z in 5 seconds

A brief disclaimer to manga fans and anime purists: I am not a hardcore fan in any respect with regards to this genre. I understand a lot is lost in translation from Japanese to English and much is left out during the editing process. I am comfortable not delving into the source material any further than it has been consumed in its current form. I do not read manga as the reading format makes me sea sick. Thank you. ^_^

ON THE NEXT EXCITING EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL ZEEE!!!

I got into Dragon Ball Z when it appeared on Cartoon Network sometime in the late 90's mid 2000's and I was hooked pretty quick the stories were fun albeit predictable the homage to western pop culture references abounded and the simple three act of a hero being beat down, finding new power and beating the bad guy was fun to watch, insofar as some of the simplest tasks in the show took up to 5 episodes to complete.  

The story centres around Goku a Saiyan, an orphan refugee from the planet Vegeta, which suffered a similar fate to the planet Krypton where he crashes to earth in a pod subsequently found by a farmer who raises him as his son- cut a long story short theres an Earth that's in a near constant state of threat of annihilation and Goku is the only saviour.

Would transform into a giant baboon by the light of the moon...

Ya know what I'm Saiyan?

The episodes began getting repetitive when this guy came along. Cell, at this point my interest in the show was beginning wane as mundane plot threads kept cropping up and the needless cliffhanging made the pace of the show tedious and a chore at times to watch and at a total of 458 episodes for all series concerned that is not so much a dedication but an obsessive compulsive disorder. 

Complete with goofy hat and painted nails, like the Pope if he was an emo at the Mardi Gras dressed like a giant
beetle.

And after watching about as many "next exciting episodes" which ironically would begin like a serial with a recap of the previous episode and intercut with this:

EEEEAAAARRRGGGHHHH NEED... MORE... FIBRE... IN... MY... DIET!!!

were scenes of support cast members, and other minor characters making cameos standing around exclaiming "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!"

Pika Low

Wonder when my subscription will arrive?

Don't mind me, just Krillin Time

This show still holds a special place in my heart as an awesome example Japanese animated fun and of pure marketing prowess behind the mantra " Find out what people like, give them a lot of it! ". It's the one reason you can never "Catch'em all" in Pokemon, sure you may accept the challenge but it's not as though the reward is worth it if you do :P

Do you really need this many characters and episodes to tell such a simple story??

AHEM... >_O

...Maybe it's Maybelline 

Maybe he's born with it

Also the show had kind of a weird subliminal undertone...

Maybe I'm just reading too much into it...

Gibblet first look teaser

I came up with Gibblet a little while ago during a college exercise, it's the ongoing story of a free range turkey (who's range isn't that free) and is trying to get into the hen house.