Laserbird, prototype!

Just a wee obsession at the moment. Laserbird started as an imaginary bird/type of bird, based on a sound. It's been rolling around and getting some shape to it but one incarnation is definitely this crested pigeon-turned laser/cock-eyed crazed and camp thing. TBC, for sure.

Mystic Pizza

Okay, so I am waaay out of whack, time-wise. This was done yonks ago, but ended up as a graphic in something I didn't like the overall look of, so I forgot about it. I discovered it again the other day, and I still really like it. I'm keeping it on it's own!

Old Mate, Copenhagen

My friend Elly is undertaking a massive adventure in Copenhagen and opening a cute little Melbourne style cafe that serves good coffee and simple eats. I was playing around with eyes and really simple type shapes and all of a sudden had a couple of sweet logo ideas and a whole alphabet! I like, a lot, I could do lots more of this.

The wedding invites that didn't make it...

So I designed these wedding invites for friends, and sadly, but not unexpectedly, they went with the one I liked the least... all's not lost: I had a lot of fun doing these and learned a thing or two about illustrating in pshop to boot. Peacocks, watercolours, sunny bright Autumn wedding themes, yum. I know which one I would have picked. Also the typeface treatment is deadly!

I like today:

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Screenprinting fun

Over the last two Sundays I've done a screenprinting intensive course through the CAE - it was great fun, especially after I got the technique right! It depressed me no end to find out how hard it can be to drag some ink across a screen! Anyway, my style came good in the end and by the second weekend I was printing some stuff with pleasing results. The above image was part of the work I prepared for the course, but really it was way too complicated for a beginner, so I resigned myself to some technically easy pieces while I practiced the process. Oh well. One day these pretty Rosellas will fly, but for now they'll have to sit tight.

Christmas sky

The Melbourne skyline - this quick illustration was done for a colleague who wanted a Chistmas invite done for her sports group. They must be a girly bunch because they rejected my first design (first illustration) in favour of the third one. I must have a more dark and dramatic image of Christmas in my head! For me, Melbourne is very much the colour scheme of the first illustration during the summer time - especially when you're out at night. Midnight blue with a bushfire sky. It's bloody hot during Christmas time, and the city is heaving with dry heat before the skies inevitably open and clean us all down before the next heatwave hits. Lovely. This place where they're holding the event is right down beside the river, so it gets a nice cool hit in the evening - hence the lick of water in the illustration.

They all look nice, though. I've been having fun with new photoshop brushes.