Fun educational piece that I was pretty happy with! When the brief starts with "Can you draw an Alien..."YES YES YES!!!

The Public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

-Paul Rand

Ironman Final

Here's the final art, with well ... everybody... even Pepper!


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Ironman in progress

Here's a small part of a larger Iron man piece. I got carried away and had so much fun with the Ironmen suits, I forgot that only 3 of them really appear in the final, which i'll post soon...

Work in progress

Here's the black and white WIP for a wrap around comic cover, I still have to add type and colour. I'll post the colour version soon.

Blink and you'll miss me!!

Here's something that doesn't happen often. I was interviewed by The Deal business magazine on how I use this blog as a business tool, it was right at the back of the feature so I doubt many were able to receive my two cents worth... who thought I'd be giving business advice!!

Marvel W.I.P

Marvel W.I.P
I broke my own blogging rule (I will blog at least once a week!) However I'm swamped with some very cool projects at the moment, which I'll post in the weeks to come...

TO BOLDLY GO...AND PHONE HOME

I'll be unable to blog for a while after this, so I thought I'd show the process for this piece, that was published this month in Tiger Airlines Magazine. I had to make the final work on a dark background as well as a light one as the A.D was still preparing his page design... this job was great fun!





approved rough

Thwip!
That's about all I can say at this point... more soon...

SUPANOVA SYDNEY

Wow, what a blast! I attended this Supanova as a "tourist" for the first time in about 5 years, and I still had a great time meeting people. There was so much great local talent at Artist alley this year that really blew me away, a couple of stand outs I thought were David Follet and Greg Holfeld who had some great work on display.

Chris Sequeira managed to get me to talk on a panel regarding Aussie comics, I'm glad it was a last minute invite. (cause I may have lost sleep over it.)

That dork in the red t-shirt is me, with Jan Scherpenhuizen and Chris.


Also I got to catch up with Colin (Star Wars: Invasion) Wilson, who had some interesting theories on the future of comics regarding iphones and other hand held computers. I just got in to hear a talk by Tim Sale who is one of my fav artist, bummer I missed out on meeting him later..

Here's the talented Cefn Ridout, Me, Colin Wilson and Frank Kennedy (who did get to meet Tim Sale AND get a cool sketch from him...)

Big thanks to Ivan for the cool Wolverine t-shirt!

"The first rule of Fight Club..."

Yeah, this ain't fight club, but it was inspired by the inflight illustrations towards the end of the movie...
This story was for Wish magazine and its about a man that traveled around the world with only one piece of onboard luggage.

This is an older piece for a graphic novel project....that I'll get to do one day...(sigh)

I'm in the middle of a few big (cool) projects at the moment, so here's a few spot illos for Current Health Magazine in the US.
They look like a comic strip, but they were used separately through out the article.

Educational poster for a US client
I normally work at 300dpi but this project needed to be at 600 dpi..no wonder my little mac was smokin'...


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Kinokuniya Supanova Ad

Here's the final ad with my illos supplied by the client...

nanananananana...BATMAN!!

and Naruto too...

Hello all!
A couple of fun characters for a Kinokuniya advertisement... I'll post the ad up soon...

Thanks to all who visited us at the MCA Zine Fair last weekend. What a crowd! Rachael and I were impressed and are looking forward to next year's! Unfortunately we forgot to take any pics, (too busy gas baggin') so if any one has cool pics let us know...

Meanwhile busy in the studio...

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This editorial piece was for The Deal Business magazine.

"After the Challenger" Graphic novel

"After the Challenger" Graphic novel (sort of..)

I received these in the mail from a client a while ago but forgot to brag about'em...
These graphic novels mix text with comic pages, so kids have to read text pages and comic pages to get the whole story, a very good way to get kids reading I think.

Here's one of my interiors

The MCA Zine Fair!!!

SUNDAY 24 MAY
11.00AM – 5.00PM

Hello all,
Its Zine fair time at the MCA. Hope to see you there, Rachael and I will have a stall selling DIABLA goodies!

See link below for more info...
MCA DETAILS

Bad trip!

Here's another editorial piece, this one's for Tiger airlines in Singapore...

It's a busy month, i'll post some new editorial pieces this week including this one...

This one was tough one to crack, the story was about a new mother that could not connect with her new born baby...however she discovers that she adores toddlers...

Free comic book day
We will be attending Free comic book day (I love the sound of that..) at Kinokuniya Bookstore at The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street. We'll be at the Kino Zine Fair selling DIABLA comics, prints and goodies!!

Free Comic Book Day
(plus Kino Zine Fair 11am - 4pm)

Kinokuniya Bookstore Sydney

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 7:00pm
Location:Kinokuniya Bookstore Level 2, The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street (opposite QVB) Sydney

Art print

Here's one of my new prints, which I'm happy to say sold quite well at Brisbane Supanova.

Txt dumped!

This piece is on getting dumped and being abused via text messaging, published in The Weekend Australian Magazine.

SUPANOVA AFTERMATH!
Too much fun for one weekend, definitely the busiest Supanova I've ever been too. Brisbane was magic and I loved the warm (sticky) weather, except my display posters started curling in the humidity...

I really enjoyed chatting and catching up with the local creators and I managed to have a great Saturday night dinner with them too.I got a chance to meet Todd McFarlane ( I totally loved his Spiderman comics soooo much..) and the greatly underrated Colin Wilson..Mr Wilson is doing some beautiful Starwars comics for Dark Horse at the moment. (I'm a big fan)


Tim (Ever talented) McEwan and I at the littlehammer stand...


Here's the friendliest (and shortest) stormtrooper I've ever met...

Glad to say my beautiful wife had fun and may yet attend another Supanova...thank goodness..I couldn't do it with out her...

SUPANOVA THIS WEEKEND!!!
I'm off to Brisbane for a holiday and SUPANOVA! If you're anywhere near Brisbane (ie: Australia) come along and join the fun.
Here's a map of where our table will be...mention this blog at the Littlehammer stand...and you might get a freebie..

Storm watching

More newness!

This is an illustration for the Weekend Australian magazine out this weekend!
The story is about a father and son bonding experience while storm watching...

Hello All!

Another editorial illo published this weekend gone. The lady in the story was a bit of a day dreamer hence the "dreamy" effect..

One of the new DIABLA prints that will be available at SUPAVOVA in Brisbane April 4 and 5.

SUPANOVA Brisbane

BREAKING NEWS
I'll be attending SUPANOVA in Brisbane April 4-5 at the RNA Showground. I haven't been to Brissy in years and I'm really looking forword to it. I'll be at Arist Alley with DIABLA comics and new art prints at the Littlehammer stand! Hope to see you there!!

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Hi all,

It's been a while between posts, the good news is I've been lucky enough to be commissioned for a bunch of editorial illos...
I'll post a few more as they are published in The Weekend Australian Magazine.

Wolverine & Storm

X MEN FEVER
I don't read X-men any more but man, do love my old Paul Smith issues...I'd been doodling between jobs in my sketch book...

BLAST FROM THE PAST!!
I went to my High School reunion this weekend, and a dear old friend found this sketch that I did for him in class...no wonder I bomb modern history...

My fave spot illo for the Weekend Ausmag, the Queen her corgis and some celebrity...

Another illo for The Weekend Australian Magazine, this one on Aussie movies... I'll let you guess the movies...

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Over consumption...

Hey I'm still here!!
The best excuse is that it been really busy! Which is great!
So I will be posting once I get approval for a few jobs.

In the meantime here is one of the spot illustrations that I have produced for The Weekend Australian Magazine...
The last one appears this coming weekend October 4-5 in the Weekend Australian, nationwide!!


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This ones on over consumption...

New Diabla comic!

some guy at the littlehammer stand...

Wow what a supanova! Best one in ages lots of familar faces and newbees..
Thanks to everyone for visiting the littlehammer stand (and for buying comics and prints!), great to see a lot of design and movie people (I love the mix..."with a dash of comics ahhhh!!) BIG THANKS to PJ and Brad...
Kings comics www.kingscomics.com in Sydney will be selling DIABLA: A DRAGONS TALE this week!

Napoleon Baez recommends DIABLA: A DRAGONS TALE!!!

"Smells like the best comic ever..."

SHOCK!
NEW DIABLA DRAGONS TALE!! HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!
Yes its been a long time coming, Lucy Lovelock returns
to comics!! And just in time for SUPANOVA this weekend www.supanova.com.au
You are all invited for Lucy's next exciting adventure...

And the glossy paper is to die for!!

Educational project...
These are from are larger set which I will post later...

Wollongong City Gallery Zine Fair

Sunday April 13, 2008

Hi everyone!! Big DIABLA announcement in a couple of weeks!! In the mean time....

There's a zine fair in Wollongong next month, and you are invited! Please find the details below:
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Welcome to Wollongong: city of coal and steel, long beaches, a university,
and for one Sunday only, a zine fair!
Wollongong City Gallery
(Corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets, Wollongong, NSW)
Sunday April 13, 2008
12 til 4
Free
Come to buy/sell/trade your zines, comics, artist books, art, badges, hand
made toys, clothing, accessories, vintage and recycled wares, baked goods,
CDs and records.
And there's other fun stuff too:
· Workshops! Presented by Vanessa Berry (*I am a Camera*
and *Strawberry
Hills Forever*) and Matt Huynh (*STiCKMAN*)
· Performances! By the Common Cold Poetry Collective
· Tea party and zine launch! With Natalie von Catalie
· End of day forum on zines, comics and graphic novels! With*
*Vanessa Berry, Matt Huynh, Julie Ditrich and Clementina Velasco
To register for a table at the zine fair, email Maddy and Natlalie at
wcgzinef...@gmail.com by April 5
Workshops have a limit of 20 people so get in quick to book a place!

....I'll be there selling DIABLA comics too!!!