Roller Derby - the Big One!

Ahoy-hoy! One last roller derby poster. Ummm... yeah! Take that you dumb skull!

Civil Offence!

Second roller derby poster re-posted cos the venue changed!
First one was choice fun so I can only assume this one will be too. Girls were violent to each other while I drank beer!

It's the Avengers!

I drew these heroic louts on my DS using Colors, I hope you can recognise 'em.

DeadlySleds.com

It's up! It's alive! It's working! At least it was the last time I looked.
99 Deadly Sleds, 99 Deadlier Sleds and 99 Deadliest Sleds - that's a lot of sleds! Except of course they're not sleds, they're little doodles of hot rods and stuff. It's really quite deceptive.
You could even get a poster!
www.deadlysleds.com

It's the Justice League!

The Justice League drawn on my Nintendo DS using Colors.
I did 'em all in a bunch last night except for Green Lantern who I just did about 10 minutes ago.
How does Superman smell without a nose? Probably terrible.

Ghost in the Shell pt 2

Here's the finished picture. Some scum-bag blur and other shortcuts in there, I don't like that stuff but it does speed things up a lot.

Ghost in the Shell

Here's a little bit of work-in-progress fan art stuff. It's from a sequence in the Ghost in the Shell manga that's a bit different in the anime. Remember that bit in the film where Togusa and Batou are tracking that garbage-truck guy who's had his brain haxored? Course you do! In the comic they got a fuchikoma backing 'em up that I thought was pretty cool. Everyone likes fuchikomas, right?
I painted in an environment behind these guys that I'll post here soon.

I Like ASIMO

ASIMO is rad. There's a bunch of humanoid robots around now and although they're all choice I still think he's my favourite. You seen those vids where he falls down the stairs? Boy that stuff makes me wince! I really feel for the lil' dude. The way he waits at the bottom of the steps building up his courage before his ill-fated ascent I find quite endearing. It's cool how he eyeballs the crowd as he's ambling up there too.
What is it that makes ASIMO so appealing, to me at least? He has none of the elements that film-makers and designers slap on anything that needs to emote. There's no giant pupil puppy-dog eyes or over-animated eyebrows or colossal head, just that cold-ass glossy black visor. But he steals hearts like crazy!
I reckon, and this sounds pretty weird, is that the secret is in the hips. That nervous side-to-side weight shifting and the cautious little steps, organic cues that we see every day in lower forms of bipedal locomotion, i.e. us, tricks us into reading life in that bevel-edged body. What a bizarre ramble this turned out to be.
I did these sketches in about 20 mins while looking at this cool little ASIMO poseable figure I bought off the internets. Cheers world wide web!

Skate of Emergency!

Here's a poster I just finished for an upcoming roller derby series. The brief was post-apocalyptic Wellington with tough chicks on rollerskates. I was gonna draw that anyway!
I did it originally in black and white and tried to do it real Akira-style. I quickly realised I was no Otomo-san and reverted to my olde wobbly hand technique. I still snuck Kaneda's bike in there amongst the rubble though. I got lil' CJ from District 9 in there too but you probably can't see him at this resolution.
Once it was finished I got word that they wanted it in colour so I did this quick hack-job. Should be a fun show, chicks in skirts roughing each other up while dudes holler and drink beer? I'll see you there!

Richard Scarry - Part Two!

Well that took a bit longer to get to than I thought!
I'd nearly finished it when I says to myself I says "that Dingo looks like a drive-it-like-you-stole-it kind of guy". I scuffed up all the shiny paint and added paint chips and cracked glass.
I assume Mr Scarry was inspired by the E-type Jaguar in the design of this car so I brought in a few details from that too, not because I think it improves it but just because I like drawing that stuff.
So! I really don't know why I did this one. It was fun and I guess I just wanted to pay a little respec' to one of my earliest inspirations. That's a plenty good reason I guess!

Richard Scarry - Part One!

I think it's safe to say Richard Scarry's books have had a very long term affect on me. Man I used to read the hell out of 'em! The detail and manic energy of of his illustrations have stuck with me all these years and still have an influence on my work/scribbles. All those cars with their tiny wheels that never seem to touch the ground, crashing into everything and always involved in chases and hijinx... great stuff!
I couldn't find that much info about the guy, strangely rotten.com has the best stuff I came across. It's an interesting read!
The car I liked best of all was Dingo Dog's red roadster with it's hungry looking grille. Today I did this little doodle of it that I'm about to paint up real quick-like, I'll put the finished version up tomorrow if I get a chance to do it tonight.

A Pair of Two Couple of Both Robots

Just doodlin' in meetings.

BirdRat

Resembles a Robot

Here's one. I did this lil' scribble on my DS using Colors that vaguely resembled a robot. I opened it in photoshop and coloured it as quick as I could in one sitting - no toilet break, Simpsons, videogames, competitive gymnastics, l33t haxoring, nothing! Surely that counts for something? "Nah dick, do a good drawing next time". What!

99 (even) Deadlier Sleds - The Motion Picture!

Eey-oop, here's some from the new bunch growing right before your four-eyes. Assuming you wear glasses of course. Now, I had to rush this out so it would avoid going head-to-head with AVATAR at the box office and in doing so I lazily snuck one in from the old bunch. For shame Pearcey, for shame!
Check out Broadmore's paintings also happening. I like to watch them and drag a pencil around on my screen. Totally ruins the monitor but it's worth it to pretend I was the one drawing 'em.

...did them with Colors yada yada 99DS.net blah blargh....

99 (even) Deadlier Sleds!

Whew! I got my next 99 hot rods/muscle cars/street-tards all done. Did 'em the same way as the last bunch, on my DS using Colors. I don't think there'll be an exhibition for these fullas but I will be doing another limited edition book of them. I'll hafta get my man Holloway to put these up on the 99DS site soon.
I'm about halfway through the next 99 too, you'll never guess what it's gonna be called - 99 DEADLIEST SL.... what? You did guess? Jeez, way to steal my thunder...

What?! Even More Demonz?!!

That's the last of 'em, I swear! Well to be honest there is more of them but they are too rubbish, even for this blog. "What? Even worse than these?!" you say? Bite your tongue smart guy! I have feelings you know.

More Demonz!

More demons! This is like a poor man's exorcism. Out! Out you little bastards and never darken my HD again!

Demonz!

I always keep my DS next to the bed. It's cool waking up the next day to find drawings I don't really remember doing. Recently I discovered I'd done all these crude demon scrawls, I guess it's cos I've been watching a lot of horror movies before hitting the hay lately. What's up with demons anyway? What are they doing when they're not jumping out of old books or terrorizing space-hulks? Do they hang out being evil to each other or do they have jobs?
I took the lines I had drawn and painted 'em up in photoshop real rough-like.

They Will Not Do What We Tell Them!

Sorry to your eyeballs, that's pretty hard to look at.

Deadly Sleds Animations

99DS is happening RIGHT NOW!

You shouldah been there man! Dudes was going ape-crap! Flipping out! "Where's the booze?" "Why is there no booze?" "Please give me some booze" - just loving the art drawings!
Thanks heaps to every human that turned up, and massive pre-thanks to the thousands who are just about to. You still got ten days if you wanna get your oggle on - behind the Wellington City Library under that levitating fernball.
These aren't drawings but are actually photographs taken by my friend and foe Steve Unwin, the Man of Many Cameras.

You can look at all the drawings Greg and I did for this exhibition here - 99DS.net

The Tower of the Last Baron

Here's a cover I drew for the Tower of the Last Baron. Thanks Paizo!

Oh my goodness, it's 99DS!

Me and my ol' pal Greg Broadmore are having an exhibition here in Wellington starting 1st February. I drew 99 hotrods (scroll down to see a couple of 'em) and Greg drew 99 nudey girls falling on banana peels. In other words - something for everyone!
99DS - Dodgy Slips and Deadly Sleds has been a long time coming. I guess I gotta credit GB for coming up with the idea of drawing one thing ninety-nine times on a Nintendo DS. We used the awesome homebrew app Colors to churn 'em out.
The whole 99DS thing was just this goofy little project until we were lucky enough to have Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger take an interest and make it into something much bigger and pretty cool. We're even getting posters made!
If you're in our windy-ass capital during February, stop by Civic Square and check it out. We'd appreciate it!
99DS.net is up and at them! Our mate Brian made that site, I think he did a great job.
Thanks B!

Perilous Parkour!

I've been doing these crappy, crappy animations of le parkour going wrong. How crappy? This crappy:


Instead of cluttering up this blog with 'em I started a whole new one! How wasteful!
PERILOUS PARKOUR!

Scraps!

Two things that should probably have ended up in the bin. Superman punching a ghost and a lil ye olde robot. Look at him go! He never stops!

The Red Shift

Ahoy-hoy!
This is a drawing. It is of a truck and I did it for the Red Shift, New Zealand's meke-ist tv show about muscle cars, hotrods and everything in between. Check 'em out here. What?! This drawing aint there you say? You think I'm pretending they wanted it? Why, I'd have to be totally crazy to pretend that! A real nut-job!
UPDATE - oh, it is actually there. It's on the show even!

RocketRod

It's a rocket-powered hotrod. It's also on a skateboard! I was totally obsessed with skateboarding for about 10 or 15 years so it's cool to actually have a drawing on one. I always sucked but I was crazy about it! I still roll around now and then but I'm even worse now than I ever was, and that's really saying something. I watched Santa Cruz's "Streets on Fire" again last night, man, what a choice movie! So much great music and Natas' sections in there still rule.
My ol' pal Wojciech has this one and a bunch of other kick-arse boards here. You can even buy this one here if you were so inclined.

Ghidoraagh!!

Here is a drawing of a three-headed dragon driving a hotrod. It's for my old band. I know, I know... let it go man! It wasn't that good to start with!

Check it here

Blackspot

Here's a poster I did for my friend's film, and a blimmin' gem it is too. The film I mean, not the poster.
Check it out at www.blackspot.co.nz

Stool Pigeon and a Crash

This is what happens when you rat out the Mafia! And also what happens when someone puts a telephone pole in front of your jump ramp. More goofing with that Animanatee app.

Wellington Apocalyptified!

You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! And then you put it on a t-shirt!

I did this drawing a few weeks ago and had a plan to do a bunch of 'em, a series if you will. I was gonna do apocalyptic cityscapes of progressively more obscure New Zealand towns, culminating in a horrifically hammered Horotiu!

If you wanted to you could buy a shirt with this on it at the Weta Workshop-shop. It's kiwi made!

Animanatee!

The Nintendo DS currently my fourth favourite thing in this universe. Homebrew apps like Colors, Protein DScratch and this one I just found called Animanatee utilize the system to a greater degree than any first party title I can think of.

Here is my first attempt at creating an animation with it, pretty stink I know. Bit of the old squash and stretch so frowned on by high society.

Download this killah app here:

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14116 

What is that Robot doing?!

When I first scribbled this guy he was being arrested by a bunch of cops. But then I thought "why draw a bunch of things when you could just draw one thing?" So that was it for the po-po!

But what's he doing now? Shooting a free-throw? Basking in the sun? Praising Lord Jebus? A one man Mexican Wave? Only time will tell!

Because no-one asked for it! A tutorial!

Here is a run-through of how this drawing happened.

Stage one is the pencil. Rough as guts and done in about 5 minutes. I love drawing stuff but it's rare that I spend much time on the pencils anymore. I'm always thinking about how much quicker and easier it will be to fix it in Photoshop than actually do the hard stuff in the real world. That's terrible advice! Spend more time drawing!

Stage two is after scanning it and opening photoshop. I keep my files pretty small so I can work quickly on 'em, usually the size they were drawn and at 300 dpi. A multiply layer over the top and very loose general colours and maybe first thoughts of how I want to light it.

Stage three is a new normal layer where I start trying to neaten it up. I work with opaque brushes from here, and dead simple ones they are too. I know people who do amazing things with custom brushes but I'm too dumb/lazy/old for much of that carry on. My main brush, and the only one I used for this piece, is a simple round soft brush with pressure controlling size and opacity.

Stage four I chucked a bit of text on there and bent it up with the warp tool. Put some shadows on there with another multiply layer and then a bit of dodge to finish, my secret shame...

There you go, what not to wear.

Drawings for that Narnia film

Here's a couple of drawings I did for the first Narnia film. I guess these are about six years old now! Crazy! The Weta website has them up so I'm assuming it's okay to show 'em.

Mongol of the Moon

That's a wonky looking spacesuit right there...

HOTRODS!

Here's some hot rods I've been drawing for an exhibiton I'm planning on doing this year. It's gonna be ninety-nine hotrods drawn on my Nintendo DS using a fantastic piece of software that turns a DS into a mini-sketchbook. It's free software and it rules! Check it out here- http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/
My ol' pal Greg came up with the 99 pics DS exhibition idea and he has his drawings all done and ready to go. I guess that makes me even more of a dead-beat.

BoozeBat

Batman is having a pint.

A Car is Crashing!

A pencil drawing I inked in Photoshop. An unfortunate piece of parking. This one was for an exhibition my friend Wojciech produced by laserifying line art onto skateboards