I've designed a new t-shirt which is up for voting in the weekly All Tropical design competition.
My T-shirt is titled 'BearCode' ... Clever eh? No? Ok.
So my thinking behind this idea other than sticking some bears on a barcode and calling it bearcode is that I could make the lines resemble trees. The lines end at different points at the bottom giving the impression the bears are walking through a wooded area, maybe in the snow.
This design is now up for voting, if you like it please go to this page http://alturl.com/fqja6 and vote for me. The winning design will be screen printed and available to buy on the websites store.
I did another version of the shirt in different colours which I decided not to use although I'm sure opinions will be split on which is the better design!
So it's been a while since I updated here, A Lot's happened but Inkitout's been pretty quiet. In this time I've had some great times at a festival and been on a fantastic holiday in Greece. Myself and my girlfriend visited the island of Samos and had a nice relaxing time.
Above are two drawings I did taken from some of my favorite photos from the holiday. I had a go at using some textures, I think it's most noticeable on the straw hat. I'd like to try this more on different items of clothing.
The only bad thing about going on holiday is having to come home... and go back to work. I had a shocking first week back, wishing i was back on holiday then a friend of mine sadly passed away.
The next day I got food poisoning...
Things are looking up now though!
I have plans to work on a large scale mural in my good friends new home in the coming weeks so hopefully I'll have some new work to put up here soon.
I was thinking about having these mugs made, I'm not sure how many people would be interested in buying them though. I know of an online shop that said they would sell them for me... for a margin ofcourse, so maybe I will do it...
The Inkitout blog has been a bit quiet recently and I think updates will be pretty scarce for a while! I've got some real life big boy stuff to think about and it's a little hard to concentrate on drawing at the moment.
I do have some projects running in the background however, hopefully I'll be able to get a bit of work done on them and return with updates and good news and other marvelous things.
Until then I'll leave you with links to two friends blogs who recently did updates about ME!
Simon Fisher - Cool Warhammer person man:
A Taste of Musk
Michael Barnes - Twitter friend and Graphic Novelist
Elblondino's Workbench
Here is a commission I did last month for a lovely lady named Sandee a contact made through Twitter. The brief was to use a poem she had written to create a piece of artwork to be presented at a wedding. Sandee would be giving the drawing to her friend as a wedding present in a frame and possibly reading the poem out at the event. I had to incorporate an illustration of the couple looking like Lego men into the drawing, this would be a constant theme at the wedding.
The pink and blue colours represent the coming together of masculine and feminine, the couple are stood together at the beginning of a path ready to take the journey of marriage together.
A fairly large piece of around 10" x 10" which I really enjoyed doing.
I hope everyone had a lovely day and I wish the couple all the best.
My good friend Simon did me a favour recently and apparently i owe him a blog post in return, so here it is! Simon likes warhammer, so i thought I'd draw him as a warhammer soldier thingy, he's like totally mean and stuff.
If your interested, Simon keeps a blog about warhammer and such things which can be found here:
http://simonfisherlol.blogspot.com/2011/05/wrack-and-roll.html
Here is another joke that I have illustrated for comedy writer Bernard Morris, hopefully we will find a publisher for this one too after our previous success!
fingers crossed
Here is a new avatar that I made for myself last week. I wanted to try out a load of new photoshop techniques I'd been trying to learn, this is what I ended up with. I wanted to make myself look cartoony and almost pop art Esq. I also added scratches and a photo frame to age it slightly, just an excuse to use the tools to be honest! I quite like it though, maybe I'll try changing the green to a different colour.
I've been added to the list of contributors as a cartoonist on the comic bible website along with Bernard in anticipation of the September issue we will be in. I used this picture to go along with my bio, although they seem to have sized it strangely.
