Saturday, 8 December 2012
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Won't be much new for a while as I'm travelling with no adobe (dear god I hear you cry) but there are bits n bobs on here. If you're interested in owt just shout and I can lower the royalty and discount it for you:-)
You are cordially invited to peruse this box of Psychedelic Junkaloids.
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AwesomeHex/250835491594583?sk=wall&filter=2
STORE: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/awesomehex
You are cordially invited to peruse this box of Psychedelic Junkaloids.
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AwesomeHex/250835491594583?sk=wall&filter=2
STORE: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/awesomehex
Molly's Vote now on Amazon
Okay so this is already up on lulu.com, but who cares about that when it's now on Amazon! It's all colourful and fun and full of my piccies (which is the primary reason for purchasing and then shamefully promoting to randomers via your kindle/computer machine) so get it! Adults are allowed to buy picture books....it's healthy. Fanx x
http://www.amazon.com/Mollys-Vote-ebook/dp/B006SW0C8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325773148&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Mollys-Vote-ebook/dp/B006SW0C8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325773148&sr=8-1
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Molly's Vote
This shall soon be appearing on Amazon but for now you can catch it on Lulu.com. It is a children's book collaboration between me and Annex Achieng. A nice project which got me drawing for kiddywinks again. I have had to work from a dinky Acer laptop on the road whilst over here in Oz so been more than a little STRESSED...............but got there in the end, spending many a late night at Perth library, setting up office on various west coast beaches and occasionally working from the seat of an easyrider bus. Fun times. This had most definitely been an interesting experience. No more projects up my sleeve at the moment, and kind of relieved. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't be tempted by something:) Doing my best to chill the hell out right now, I have christmas on the beach planned up here in Coral Bay so not doing too badly on the chillin' front:) You can download the e-book here:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lannex
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Friday, 3 September 2010
Tasty little Swallow
(original sketch, + then cut out in photoshop)
This is a sketch I did in the garden a couple of weeks ago in the glorious sun. I found a story online a while ago and it was flapping around in my head. It was called 'Little Swallow'; it is set in China and the main character is called Little Swallow. She is fond of all birds-having been named after a bird herself. One day, Chairman Mao announces that the Sparrows in China must be obliterated as they are a nuisance, fattening themselves on rice from the fields that is to feed the people. And so a sparrow killing spree commences..... Because the Sparrow population decreases the people are then plagued with an influx of mosquitoes and grasshoppers-the insects having not been eaten themselves by the sparrows, and rice crops get ravaged anyhow. I like the story but after reading the first page my personal feeling was that it would make sense to eat some of the sparrows-kill two birds with one stone (excuse the pun),thus keeping the population under control as well as providing a protein-based snack. Well anyway-that's where this image came from.
Vectorised in illustrator (so I play with it lots)
I also liked the idea of the girl 'Little Sparrow' being eaten by mistake or something......or transforming into a bird herself and then getting eaten by her own father, yes I like that idea. It is just an ink sketch at the moment, I quite like the sinister look she has acquired due to me making her eyeless with way too much hair. I have cut it out in photoshop and then I vectorised it in illustrator to give me more freedom but that's about it so far. I have collected some feather images and patterns which I'd like to collage beneath the outline in some way.
This is a sketch I did in the garden a couple of weeks ago in the glorious sun. I found a story online a while ago and it was flapping around in my head. It was called 'Little Swallow'; it is set in China and the main character is called Little Swallow. She is fond of all birds-having been named after a bird herself. One day, Chairman Mao announces that the Sparrows in China must be obliterated as they are a nuisance, fattening themselves on rice from the fields that is to feed the people. And so a sparrow killing spree commences..... Because the Sparrow population decreases the people are then plagued with an influx of mosquitoes and grasshoppers-the insects having not been eaten themselves by the sparrows, and rice crops get ravaged anyhow. I like the story but after reading the first page my personal feeling was that it would make sense to eat some of the sparrows-kill two birds with one stone (excuse the pun),thus keeping the population under control as well as providing a protein-based snack. Well anyway-that's where this image came from.
Vectorised in illustrator (so I play with it lots)
I also liked the idea of the girl 'Little Sparrow' being eaten by mistake or something......or transforming into a bird herself and then getting eaten by her own father, yes I like that idea. It is just an ink sketch at the moment, I quite like the sinister look she has acquired due to me making her eyeless with way too much hair. I have cut it out in photoshop and then I vectorised it in illustrator to give me more freedom but that's about it so far. I have collected some feather images and patterns which I'd like to collage beneath the outline in some way.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
New DoodleKaz products
some additions to my products available on RedBubble
Fishbowl Conversation (open)
This is the card design, I may include it in my 'Animal Gothic'. Originally the concept was based on a story I read; a young girl goes fishing to help her mother and a large fish jumps out from the river. The fish warns the girl that if she eats it she too shall be turned into a fish. Predictably the girl catches the fish and cooks it up, and as she swallows her first mouthful lo and behold a cold shiver runs through her and she is transformed. It then goes off on some ridiculous tangent involving a giant, a princess and a missing crown but it's the first few paragraphs I like. I haven't written it yet, but in my version of the story, the fish is in a bowl not a river, and the girl doesn't find a princess or get changed back again.
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The illustration is a collage made up of an awesome wall texture I found, a sketch I did of a fish, a photo of myself manipulated in photoshop to make me look even more gross than I do naturally, and other bits and pieces I drew over the top. What I wanted to do but didn't really achieve was to construct a dress made up of the fish image, in a scale-like fashion, so I may come back to this idea. I started with the photo, I often do that and remove the photo altogether once the piece is finished-the photo acts as more of a starting guide than anything-but I liked the effect of it in this illustration so I kept it.
This is the tshirt version, I really like the black and white image on a plain white tee, this combination seems to be my direction at the moment-very Aubrey Beardsley but with a load of colour splatted on top.
+tshirt-01.jpg)
Harlequin Valentine (inverted)
This is a developed illustration from one I did a while ago called Jest. Both are odes to Neil Gaiman. He did a Graphic novel called 'Harlequin Valentine' In it the main character is the old clown of the italian commedia del'arte and he is in love with 'Missy' The Harlequin gives her a valentine gift by pulling out his heart and nailing it to her door....she is oblivious to his pursuit. My ode is 'inverted' because the female is the harlequin. The story is beautiful and grotesque and I will be using it as inspiration for an animal gothic illustration most definitely. The guy who illustrated this is amazing, he does what I suppose you could describe as Goth Sci fi. John Bolton
Again, the tee design is a developed version of the card, and looks best on white in my opinion.
Fishbowl Conversation (open)
This is the card design, I may include it in my 'Animal Gothic'. Originally the concept was based on a story I read; a young girl goes fishing to help her mother and a large fish jumps out from the river. The fish warns the girl that if she eats it she too shall be turned into a fish. Predictably the girl catches the fish and cooks it up, and as she swallows her first mouthful lo and behold a cold shiver runs through her and she is transformed. It then goes off on some ridiculous tangent involving a giant, a princess and a missing crown but it's the first few paragraphs I like. I haven't written it yet, but in my version of the story, the fish is in a bowl not a river, and the girl doesn't find a princess or get changed back again.
-02.jpg)
The illustration is a collage made up of an awesome wall texture I found, a sketch I did of a fish, a photo of myself manipulated in photoshop to make me look even more gross than I do naturally, and other bits and pieces I drew over the top. What I wanted to do but didn't really achieve was to construct a dress made up of the fish image, in a scale-like fashion, so I may come back to this idea. I started with the photo, I often do that and remove the photo altogether once the piece is finished-the photo acts as more of a starting guide than anything-but I liked the effect of it in this illustration so I kept it.
This is the tshirt version, I really like the black and white image on a plain white tee, this combination seems to be my direction at the moment-very Aubrey Beardsley but with a load of colour splatted on top.
+tshirt-01.jpg)
Harlequin Valentine (inverted)
This is a developed illustration from one I did a while ago called Jest. Both are odes to Neil Gaiman. He did a Graphic novel called 'Harlequin Valentine' In it the main character is the old clown of the italian commedia del'arte and he is in love with 'Missy' The Harlequin gives her a valentine gift by pulling out his heart and nailing it to her door....she is oblivious to his pursuit. My ode is 'inverted' because the female is the harlequin. The story is beautiful and grotesque and I will be using it as inspiration for an animal gothic illustration most definitely. The guy who illustrated this is amazing, he does what I suppose you could describe as Goth Sci fi. John Bolton
Again, the tee design is a developed version of the card, and looks best on white in my opinion.
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