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.



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.


























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.