2014 Rundown and how to follow Rob in 2015

It is apparent that I no longer have time to keep an up to date blog, so for anyone who is interested in my current comic, illustration or animation projects you can go to the following pages...

my website

www.robcorlessart.com

 

 

my tumblr page

http://robcorless.tumblr.com/

 

 

my facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rob-Corless-Art/250869705982

 

 

By visiting these pages you can get the latest information regarding my comic series, The Resurrection of Anton Fields and Stange Aeons Magazine, my latest animations and other projects.

The Resurrection of Anton Fields, Issue 1

Available now!

A Small  Journey

A short animated film by Rob Corless

Samuel of the Sea

Concept art for a short animated film.

Strange Aeons, Issue 15

Cover by Rob Corless

Mural (unfinished) at Junction Park State School



Nocturne Inferno Illustrations

One of my most recent projects that I have been working on is a series of illustrations for K.L. Young’s Nocturne Inferno. It's a story about an amateur musician who, by chance, obtains the legendary guitar once owned by his hero, the great Erik Zann. Then things start get a little dark and murdery.

I had a lot of fun with creating these images. I could easily picture what I wanted to draw while I was reading these characters and, overall, I'm pretty happy with the end result.

This project gave me the opportunity to explore some changes to the way I usually approach colour in my illustrations. I purposely tried to hold back on the dark tones that I would normally use, which I think gives these images more of a distinct stylistic theme and more of a comic book feel.

I am yet to add some black and white sketches to this collection of illustrations. 

Village Destruction

This Year's Laneway Pics

 I have added some new life into some older pics for my contribution to this year's Laneway Festival in Brisbane. These pics will feature as stickers and posters around the site. I'm also working on some stencils, which I'll post later.

The Resurrection of Anton Fields Part 3

Part 3 of The Resurrection of Anton Fields is now complete.

 In this instalment we get to explore both of the Anton characters, the human and the squincher, and delve a little deeper into their worlds.

Part 3 will be available in Strange Aeons Magazine #14, sometime this year.

Strange Aeons #12

I finally received my copies of Strange Aeons #12 which features part 2 of my comic series, The Resurrection of Anton Fields.

The Resurrection of Anton Fields

Well, it has been a while since I posted here and it's not because I haven't been working on anything. I've just been too busy with my real job, study and my family. Seems like finding time to draw is fairly difficult enough, let alone trying to keep my neglected blog up to date. But the fact that you are reading this means things have slowed down a little for me, which also means.... time to draw more comics.

Anyway, my latest story I'm sporadically struggling with is The Resurrection of Anton Fields for Strange Aeons Magazine in Seattle. 

Anton in an aimless young man who lacks any ambition. His life is going nowhere. He is about to lose his job and his girlfriend, both of which he is lucky to have in the first place. Suddenly things start to look up as his life takes an interesting turn when he dies.

Anton discovers he is a major asset in a bureaucratic nightmare that has been shaping the world for millennia.

Part 1 and 2 are available in Strange Aeons Magazine #11 and #12 and I am currently working on Part 3.

Howard Lovecraft Cover

Which brings me to my latest piece which will be a new cover in Bruce Brown's Howard Lovecraft series.

Seeing as this is one of my more realised pictures of late, I thought it might be nice to show the steps I took to come up with the final image.

The brief was to have the characters posing in a Victorian style portrait. I immediately sketched this... 

...which then became this...

At this point my uni assignments and work began to take over my life so I left the picture for a while, which I guess turned out to be a good thing as it gave me a chance to imagine how it might eventuate.

Along came my holiday break and I get a couple of days to myself...

After finalising the characters in Photoshop I needed the background...

Rob's art at Laneway Festival 2013

If you happen to be at Brisbane's leg of this year's Laneway Festival, Friday 1st February, you might just stumble across some familiar characters decorating the RNA Showgrounds.

Once again I will be displaying some of my characters and comic pages along with a bunch of fantastic Brisbane comic artists.

While you're roaming between the bands make sure you keep a look out for comic pages covering the walls and I think there will be some zines to purchase as well. 

Art With A Heart at WWA

WWA Gallery in Culver City are currently showing work from a whole bunch of awesome artists, including some of my paintings, and what's even better is that all of the work is for sale with proceeds going to charity. 

WWA Gallery and participating artists will jointly donate 10% of all sales from "Art with a Heart" to the American Red Cross for the Hurricane Sandy Relief Effort!

With the goal of helping others in this time of need, the gallery has teamed up with artists to offer artwork at amazing price points from past shows for the duration of the exhibit from December 8 – 22, so this is your chance to help others while helping yourself to original artwork.

Open to the public, the gallery reception is from 7 -10PM Saturday, December 8^th.  All artwork will be available to take home upon purchase during the opening reception and will be on view through December 22nd, 2012.

Click here to go to the preview page and to purchase.

Final Instalment of Hell Dorado

    

 Issue 9 of Strange Aeons Magazine will feature not only a whole lot of cool horror/weird comics, but also the final instalment of Hell Dorado.

Hell Dorado is the story I have been drawing for the past year and a bit for writer Laurence Amoitte.  A post-apocalyptic western full of demons, gunfights, blood, explosions, etc...  you get the idea.

Hell Dorado has been featured in the past issues of Strange Aeons makes this my longest published effort, so if you're keen to see the whole story you can go to Strange-Aeons.com and order yourself some copies.

The Converse Blank Canvas Project & Auction

Thanks to the awesome people at Artisan I have some images of my contribution to the Converse Blank Canvas Project which is currently on display at their gallery.

 There are 20 pairs of converted connies in the show and all are being auctioned for charity (here).
The auction closes on July 26, 2012. All proceeds will be donated to the Cathy Freeman Foundation, supporting indigenous education.

Con-Quest

Special thanks to Vikki & Dan

The Converse Blank Canvas Project

GALLERY ARTISAN PRESENTS THE CONVERSE BLANK CANVAS PROJECT 

The Converse Blank Canvas Project is a collection of classic Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers creatively customised by leading Australian artists and designers. The shoes will be sold by auction during the exhibition period, with all funds going to the Cathy Freeman Foundation, supporting indigenous education. Artists and designers include: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Jason Bird, Dean Brough, Rob Corless, Sebastian Di Mauro, Christian Duell, Simone Eisler, Paul Fairweather, Rafael Gomez, Dai Li, Alexander Lotersztain, Charles Robb, Rebecca Ross, Wade Schaare, David Shaw, Gail Sorronda, Simone Tops, Sam Tupou, Judy Watson, and Benjamin Werner.

EXHIBITION OPENS THURSDAY 21 JUNE 2012 | CONTINUES UNTIL 16 AUGUST 2012 | ADMISSION FREE

Offerings work available at WWA

WWA Gallery in Culver City currently have paintings from my solo show, Offerings, available to purchase from their online store on their website.

Hell Dorado pics