animals.

this is a series of drawings i've been doing on and off for nearly two years. most of the drawings never make it past the rough sketch stage. sometimes that's because i think the combination of animals is going to look hilarious, until i start to draw it and realise it doesn't.

i tend to have a pretty prolonged drawing method. i'll sketch up what i want to do, if it's complex i'll draw all the individual elements seperately, then combine them, then draw and re-draw it until i'm happy enough with it to produce a final artwork. i'm sure that if my analogue brain would allow it i could complete this much faster on the computer.

these three are the final sketches completed before doing another final drawing for each. of course i didn't think to actually scan any of the final drawings before giving them to the friends/family they were intended for.

when it pains... he draws.

i know you're laughing. seriously- how can you look at this bear and not smile. and if you know the band, and their original art, you can't not think this is hilarious. or maybe it's just me.

this is a preliminary sketch for an upcoming t-shirt for poison city records. maybe. have to show it to the boss first. but really- is he going to say no to this? would you?

cat cut-outs

upcoming t-shirt design for a rather awesome band. it's no accident that the cat looks like indy. it still surprises me that the cat has two fangs. dental symmetry is something that has never really interested me.

bad teapot

just about the funniest juxtaposition i could think of. or not, when you think about it.

ada

this was a rough sketch created from couple of photobooth photos (the ones i keep in my wallet). not a great sketch, but it looks like her.

leaving town

this outline sketch became the poison city tour records tour poster for 2010.

one year long.

it's been more or less a year since my last post. it's been a pretty full year. a long, hard, ultimately rewarding year. i'm in a much better place than i was this time last year. as hard as it was for me, and for every centimetre, every hour of hard work, stress and effort i had to push myself through, i know my partner went through more. i know it's not over. every bright day casts it's shadows. but i know i can make it- i know i'm supported.

my original intentions for this blog have not wavered. but i no longer want to keep a document of the things that have happenned in the past 12 months. it's not that i'm over it, it's that i've gotten through it.

so here we are. posts have been deleted, updated. the history of this year has not been changed, rewritten, or deleted, but i need to move on. i need to stay healthy, i can.

the empty cage.

this is not a metaphor for how i feel at the moment. seriously.

broke-hearted bat.

broke and broken.

world's biggest vegan.

despite the current popular consensus, i am committed to not only being the best example i can for my daughter, but also to providing as many examples of positive lifestyles as i can for her.  

i proudly present the brontosaurus, the world's largest vegan.  now tell my little girl that consuming flesh will help her grow.

weakerthan.

sometimes someone else's poetry says something you can't.

holding

this was just a sketch...

ghostopus

the funniest thing i've ever done. 

when it pains, it roars

There's alot of different takes on this image going around.  i drew this one up for my partner, switching out the raincoat/skirt/mary janes for a t-shirt, jeans and a pair of vans. i also replaced the salt can with my partner's cat.

owl

this was a house-warming present for some close friends.  I'm pretty happy with the finished product.

polaroid over-photography

these were taken on a polaroid spectra system se, using expired 1200 film.  i found the camera in a bin at a real estate office i was once janitorially responsible for.  the film stock had been found inside the wardrobe of a recently vacated house the week before. i had to modify the film cartridge to fit into the camera.

good morning.

i'll be posting some random artwork, illustrations and photographs.  the work will be in a pretty random order.  some of the work will be completed, some will be works in progress, some will have been abandoned.  

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