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

Iron Man!

Quite fitting that the first post I have ever made on a blog is one of Epic Fail. This is a really quick bit o' painting I did for Project Rooftop, a choice and well-worth-a-look site that hosts redesigns of superhero costumes. Not this one though! They have a bunch of cool stuff and I've found heaps of interesting artists from there. Ch-check it out- http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/