Design/Illustration/Art

More shape shifting

2010-07-08T03:06:00.000-07:00

Robotika

2010-07-07T03:03:00.000-07:00

Some really shabby robot thing Im toying with making. What happened to us having our own personal robots, wasnt that meant to have happened by now. I have resorted to making my own.

Careless shape shifter

2010-07-06T04:23:00.000-07:00

Some doodles while my computer was down and out. The other side of the envelope.

Home for mice

2010-07-05T04:09:00.000-07:00

Been offline for a few days, my computer has been having a bit of melt down lately. Apparently it is still trying to decide if it wants to live or die, after water leaked into it about a month ago. Anyway here is my sketch book from the past six months which has also been serving as my mouse pad. Really need to invest in one of those gel mouse pads, this ones not so nice on the old wrist.

Skethy Book

2010-07-04T20:49:00.000-07:00

Rubbish I dunno

2010-07-03T20:44:00.000-07:00

Scarecrow

2010-07-02T20:42:00.000-07:00

Hmm

2010-07-01T10:35:00.000-07:00

..some cutesy crap. Quick detour from something else I plan on doing with these heads.

Cubic dreams

2010-06-30T10:35:00.000-07:00

My wife, been a good recycler told me I had to use this envelope for something. So naturally, I got to doing a quick doodling.

more keep em seperated

2010-06-29T11:47:00.000-07:00

More of this work in progress, made both twins unique instead of just a mirrored image.

Gotta keep em seperated

2010-06-28T09:38:00.000-07:00

Hoodie design, work in progress. Conjoined twins go under the knife. Your the surgeon. woo.

Badly drawn girl

2010-06-27T11:01:00.000-07:00

Tribal surf

2010-06-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Irreversible

2010-06-25T10:02:00.000-07:00

Not sure what I was thinking here.

OK!

2010-06-24T19:54:00.000-07:00

Ah, cant remember a time before formatting at the moment. Here is another cheat, one I prepared earlier. It says thikcha, Nepali for ok, alrite that sorta thing.

Nothing new

2010-06-23T20:02:00.000-07:00

busy busy at the moment, here is one I prepared earlier.

No Jack Sparrow

2010-06-21T18:30:00.000-07:00

Had little time today for creating. This was a quick angry pirate scribble out of frustration.

More of this

2010-06-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

Finally got around to finishing this off..I think.

Bubble O' Bill

2010-06-19T09:45:00.000-07:00

Bubble O' Bills are a ice cream I grew up eating in Australia. Lately they seem to be gaining popularity again or maybe they never lost their popularity. There are a few tshirt designs out there that have recognised their resurgence, here is another one with a different spin. Its Bubble O'Bills better half Bubble O' Jill (haha not lame at all).

Smiley

2010-06-18T04:55:00.000-07:00

I have had a smiley face pic sitting on my desktop for quite some time and I finally deleted it the other day, kinda missed it though. I decided to make my own smiley face. Instead it turned into this half smiley, half i'm gonna eat you bear.

This Shirt is bananas cont.

2010-06-17T19:38:00.000-07:00

Still trying to get this design submitted to threadless, the other one was too crazy to print apparently, which I can kinda understand when I actuallly take time to consider the print process. I redid it as a one colour belt print on a yellow shirt. Still may not be possible to go all over and make it as it looks though I think. Will see what threadless say. Im perservering with it, because from the feedback so far people liked the originality. Wish me luck.

Young Famous Gone tee

2010-06-16T20:12:00.000-07:00

Im a bit obsessed with threadless at the moment. Here is another tee that is a work in progress.

This Shirt is bananas

2010-06-15T09:41:00.000-07:00

more threadless tee fun.

Dim and Sim

2010-06-14T20:32:00.000-07:00

Made some changes to tee im working on, here is what happened. Conjoined twins dim and sim were best known for getting around on the villages only skateboard. When they unsuccessfully landed a back flip and died, the village decided to have them carved in wood to honor their progressive awesomeness. This will hopefully be up for voting soon at threadless.

Conjoined

2010-06-13T08:53:00.000-07:00

This a tee design I have up at threadless (threadless is an on going tshirt competition, check out some of the amazing shirts there) at the moment for critiquing. Im not sure if it needs something else, before putting it up for voting. What do you think?

bread

2010-06-12T08:20:00.000-07:00

Working on a project booklet for my wifes organisation. This is a rough concept for the feature pages, inside of what will mainly be a information booklet.

lil somethin

2010-06-10T23:11:00.000-07:00

todays snap, something im trying to work on, illustrating reproductive health.

Get your eagle on

2010-06-09T20:06:00.000-07:00

In my lifetime I have searched for a few fonts before. The usual place to go to for free fonts for me is usually dafont, which sometimes does the trick. However today I was in need of quite a specific font and came across eagle fonts I would say it has a lot more fonts from what I could tell. They trawl the internet for all the places that have free fonts available and put them all in one place. Having found the eagle I decided to honor the occasion with a bit of a illustration.

Red Bull

2010-06-08T05:45:00.000-07:00

This is a quickie illustration to remind myself more than anything to take opportunities head on, and not let them pass by.

Portrait Pics

2010-06-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

I am no photographer, but then again it seems most people with DSLR's seem to think they are so I might as well join in. Anyway here is some photos I played with for mooks art space. They try to find up coming wannabes/amatuers like me by running a art space with a different theme to submit artwork to each month. This months is portrait photography.

Sole creator

2010-06-06T09:57:00.000-07:00

I really wanna get me some custom shoes made some day. There are a couple of sites out there that make it easy, Sole creator is one of them. They have a simple program to help you customise them, and then you can have them shipped off to you in around two weeks. Here is one I prepared earlier.

Visuals of the world

2010-06-05T08:30:00.000-07:00

Want some visual inspiration? check out visuals of the world it has gone to great lengths to bring inspiration from around the world (430m of length approxiametely). You can upload your own visual inspiration. Here is my addition.

Moustache face

2010-06-04T07:21:00.000-07:00

My moustache face font, finished. Not heaps practical, but had the idea so had to make it.

Fontsruct

2010-06-03T08:06:00.000-07:00

Ever wanted to make your own font? This is the beginning of one I am working on currently. You can make your own also using Fontstruct its a website which which allows you to make fonts using their online program which is free. The only limitation is that their is only certain shapes that can be used within a grid to make up your letters. However the sky is still the limit from the looks of some of the other fonts made on the site so far. The best part however is you can download your font at any time as a ttf. file and install it and start using. You can also make use of other peoples blood and sweat by downloading the fonts they make available.

My font is a smiley faces with mustaches inspired font, with the mustaches representing the actual letter. What your looking at is the ABCD of the font.

Correlate this

2010-06-02T22:58:00.000-07:00

So the power was out last nite here from 7pm until whenever. So I strapped on a head lamp, and this is what I mustered up.

Scratch

2010-06-01T11:38:00.000-07:00

After been inspired by this random site generator and the days happenings, I made this.

More Ned

2010-05-31T20:14:00.000-07:00

Young famous gone.

2010-05-30T10:37:00.000-07:00

Did some more for this idea. Feels complete for now.

Ned

2010-05-29T23:52:00.000-07:00

This is a unfinished drawing im working on. Im thinking Ned Kelly vs. random.

Arniko Bday!

2010-05-28T05:10:00.000-07:00

The Arniko Skateboard store that I work at, turns 1 year old today. So to get a bit of a gathering together I did this little flyer up. Check out the boards and clothing on the website by clicking the link above. Its all a lot better made than this dodgey flyer.

Clean and green

2010-05-27T04:59:00.000-07:00

Nepal has the old style chewing gum which comes in flat sticks instead of the capsules. They also come individually wrapped in these cool wrappers. I thought I would stick a few together and have a doodle on the back. Here's the result.

more..young famous gone

2010-05-26T07:18:00.000-07:00

this is where I have gone with this so far.

young famous gone

2010-05-25T09:24:00.000-07:00

Some famous people who died young. Hoping to push this illustration further. To be cont..

How to be sheepish

2010-05-24T09:34:00.000-07:00

decided a sheep worked better as a follow..on twitter, button.

Elvis

2010-05-23T08:37:00.000-07:00

Mooks art space inspires me to do more. Their theme this month is Famous people. Hence this wee doodle.

Button Up

2010-05-22T10:51:00.000-07:00

Some new buttons I drew for my blog.

Awkward Blue

2010-05-21T03:11:00.000-07:00

This comes from a photo I took while I was trekking to Everest Basecamp recently. I went a bit nuts on it in photoshop, after been inspired by a photoshop tutorial I found at photoshopsupport.com
click image to see detail

Glitch

2010-05-20T02:58:00.000-07:00

Just another

2010-05-19T05:44:00.000-07:00

Like its nineteen ninety six

2010-05-18T05:28:00.000-07:00

You would think that wearing a tshirt with Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera on it would be pretty shameful for anyone really, in any country. However in Nepal guys rock them like its 1996 or whenever there hey day was. Riding to work this morning inspired this scribble. You dont have to go far over here to see some guy wearing one.

Concrete jungle

2010-05-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

My awesome wife purchased this wickedly good sketch book called WALLS Notebook last year. Its got 160 pages of urban walls which you can use as a blank slate. They provide inspiration as well as an interesting backdrop for notes, drawings, or scribbles. You'll be one step closer to being the graffiti artist you've always wanted to be...minus the (doodle in the bum) jail time. If you would like your own you can pick it up at Borders for about 20 bucks. This is only my second drawing in mine so far I am scared of wrecking it. Ps. sorry the image is a real head turner, it was just to small the other way for the detail.

Scribble project

2010-05-16T07:17:00.000-07:00

The scribble project was created by illustrator Lisa Currie as a sort of doodled interview. It's fun to see how every person attacks the same sheet in a new way. She then posts them up on the website. Here is mine. Check all the others out as well. Or have a go yourself ya lazy mug.

Flying Goggles

2010-05-15T10:08:00.000-07:00

In Nepal we have regular power outtages. They run on a schedule for different areas in the country, and the amount of hours of load shedding goes up and down depending on the season. So this one is a bit of a scribble by candle light.

Royal Babu

2010-05-14T06:19:00.000-07:00

Our house was once inhabited by other people that all followed a similar path as us. They worked for the same organisation as my wife and experienced a lot of the good times and the bad times that we have also experienced over here. I learn't this while back home in Aus last time when I ran into some previous tenants, it was sweet to compare notes. Since the three previous rounds of tenants the place has never been cleared out of everyones crap. Hence I use a lot of the crap for random things.

This photo I found and decided to recycle by doing a quickie drawing on it. Its actually a photo taken at Pokhara over looking Phewa lake. We were also lucky enough to make a trip there last year, it is one of the main tourist destinations here. This little drawing was inspired also by a recent trek to Everest base camp. A funny man friend on the trek discovered while he was over here that 'royal babu' meant crying baby(boy) in Nepali and used it sarcastically in broken Nepali conversation. it made our Nepali guide laugh a lot. Anyway guess you had to be there. The back of this photo has the word royal printed on it so it just reminded me of the goodtimes while we were not trekking. I hate walking especially for 13 days straight for 5ish hours or more a day, why the Jeffrey Higgons would I put my self through that. Never again.

Feels so free

2010-05-13T06:08:00.000-07:00

Todays drawing is bought to you by Jean Michel Basquiat, well actually me but inspired by him (I kinda wish to be him in another life). If your not sure who he is, he is a famous artist from the 80's who used to run around with Andy Warhol. Said to be the first artist of African American descent to become famous. Any way the reason I did this guy is because mooks artspace have a monthly art comp which I like to work on stuff for, each month and this month their theme is famous people. The other thing I figured out when drawing this is that I love this style of drawing. I used to do it quite a bit, but have been trying to straighten out some drawings a bit. What I realised however is that drawing like this feels so right, feels so free.

Hard knock life Continued

2010-05-12T08:08:00.000-07:00

Found a photo of another old nepali lady which I thought I would have a crack at drawing. She is blind in one eye it seems so no need for the other half of her broken glasses.

The lone boxer is king

2010-05-11T08:21:00.000-07:00

Hard knock life

2010-05-10T05:20:00.000-07:00

Made this guy this arvo. Well actually its a illustration I did from a photo of a really weathered looking little old Nepali lady. But my drawing skills/lazyness some how made her look a bit like a man. My bad. The back ground I used is actually from this site lostandtaken they have quite a few free high res texture backgrounds that you can utilise in designs or to customise a blog or something.

No threat

2010-05-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

I like to sometimes just start making something and see where it goes. This is one of those occasions (as you can see). The process of making and creating is more important sometimes I think than the outcome.

Also I picked up a whole bunch of these security checked stickers recently while at a domestic Nepali airport. I love the contradiction of it. Gives you an example of the capability of law enforcement and security over here.

$ave me

2010-05-08T06:15:00.000-07:00

Nepals money is a bit like monopoly money so I got the idea of writing on it to get messages around the joint (hopefully this is not to incriminating). This is mainly what I have been putting on them so far. Tigers and Rhinos are national animals to Nepal, and lots of people come here to see them in the wild, yet they are still being poached over here even in the National Parks.

Striked out

2010-05-07T09:18:00.000-07:00

Nepal has alot of political instability. One of the things that happens here alot is a Bandh (strike/protest) which if done by the right people or enough people, can literally shut down the whole nation due to intimidation through people in numbers on the street. This happened for six days straight this week. so my friend had a barbecue and I decided to capture a few of the happenings there.

Box cover up

2010-05-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

Put a paper bag on it continued

2010-05-05T05:15:00.000-07:00

Scare crow

2010-05-04T20:38:00.000-07:00

Photo Restoration

2010-05-04T07:33:00.000-07:00

Put a paper bag on it

2010-05-03T02:01:00.000-07:00

Got Shins

2010-05-02T01:40:00.000-07:00

Urban Katman

2010-05-01T04:36:00.000-07:00

Scrawny ass, confused cat

2010-04-29T19:26:00.000-07:00

Grow some

2010-04-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

This Guy - Biro Drawing

2010-04-27T23:59:00.000-07:00

Scare crow

2010-04-04T20:34:00.000-07:00