Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Down The Rabbit Hole

Down The Rabbit Hole

I've always had a facination with fantastic children's stories, especially when they tend to be based on nonsense or ideas from dreams. This stuff was like rocket fuel for my imagination when I was a kid and, I think, eventually influenced my illustration style.



I was doodling this rabbit pic recently and it kind of turned out to be Alice and the White Rabbit from Alice In Wonderland, which led me to add a background and so on. The only problem is that the rabbit was too happy and manga looking.


My second attempt at the rabbit seemed more appropriate. Usually the White Rabbit is portrayed as being elegant and fussy looking, but I made him a little more derranged and frantic with a myxomatosed eye.

The piece is made up of separate pen drawings which are scanned, manipulated and coloured in Photoshop, as is most of my artwork only I gave extra attention to detail in this one.

Sunrise Photo


My wife, Sharon, took this photo of the sunrise on our recent road trip. Beautiful shot.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Background for Alice

Not quite finished with this one yet, but seeing as I haven't put much up lately I thought I'd post something that I have been working on, even if it isn't finished.

Bit of an Alice In Wonderland theme. I am yet to add Alice and the White Rabbit in the pic as well as a few other bits and pieces.



Thursday, October 05, 2006

Dex Article

Tattoos Down Under Magazine have an article about the Dex exhibition that was held a few months ago. The one with all the skateboard decks...... you remember.