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

More Hell Dorado

It has been a while since I have posted anything here and it's mostly because my free time has all but eaten up by day-to-day life and also working on Laurence Amoitte's Hell Dorado for Strange Aeons Magazine.    

This latest instalment is the second to last of the story and is gearing up to a huge confrontation between the mysterious gunslinger, Shaine, and General Arakiel with his demons straight from Satan's army.      

This instalment will be featured in Strange Aeons #9 and will be available to order at their website.

Broken Machine - Logan Art Gallery

Last night was the opening for my solo show, Broken Machine, at Logan Art Gallery.

Broken Machine is a series of surreal and humorous prints and paintings based on one of my comic ideas about a character called Kiko and her journey as she withdraws from reality into her own fantasy world.

Kiko's Walk

Reflection

The show runs until 18 Feb 2012.

Recent Work & Website Update

 Here are a couple of new ones that I will be using for a new project. I'll post more details and pics along the way along with updates from the Hell Dorado comic for Strange Aeons Magazine.

Together these projects are going to keep me very busy over the next few months.

Peace in Exile

My website, www.robcorlessart.com, now has a bit of a new look. Go see for yourself.

Kiko's Machine

 My latest submission to Danger Daze is a four page comic titled Kiko's Machine. It is an abbreviated version of a story I have been playing around with and hope to expand sometime into a full length comic.

I won't give too much away just yet, but to get an idea you should grab a copy of Danger Daze issue 8.

If you don't live in Brisbane you can contact me and I can organize you a copy.

Danger Daze Issue 8

Issue 8 of Danger Daze will feature yet another cover collaboration. This time the contributors are myself and Kazumi Daido. 

This is my portion of the cover. It could look completely different after Kazumi has finished her design.

Hell Dorado Part 2

Panels from the second installment of Hell Dorado for Strange Aeons Magazine.

Strange Aeons & Awakener Review

Mike at Lovecraft eZine have posted a review for my Awakener comic which featured in Strange Aeons #1.

The review also mentions Bruce Brown's Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom and Lee Davis' New Sister (also from Strange Aeons).

While we're talking about comics, I'm currently hard at work on Laurence Amoitte's Hell Dorado for Strange Aeons. A post-apocalyptic western full of vengeful gunslingers and demon outlaws. Keep a look out!

New Jimmy & E.C.

 A new Jimmy and E.C. story is up at their blog.

Hell Dorado

The upcoming issue of Strange Aeons will feature my new comic which is a prologue to a screenplay named Hell Dorado, written by Laurence Amoitte.

 

The scene is set in this post-apocalyptic western with a young boy disturbing a nest of zombies.

Enter the mysterious gunslinger to take care of the plague of undead.

Installments of Amoitte's Hell Dorado with be featured in future issues.

Visit here to get your hands on a copy of Strange Aeons.