Archive for October, 2008
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Gusferatu Photo Mutation
Digital photo mutation.
Original photo.
This photo was taken of a friend by a friend. The photographer also did a nice conversion to black and white for me, after which I attempted to make the subject even uglier than he is. That’s two horror-themed photo mutations I’ve done so far and I’m not even a horror fan!
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Click Tac Toe ‘Phone Game
In stages from late 2007 to the first few months of 2008, I worked on some art for a Bluetooth ‘phone game called “Click Tac Toe”, a clever cross between Tic Tac Toe and Battleship. You can actually try the game for free; in fact, I believe it’s totally free for a limited time. I’ve […]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Bright Side Cartoons
These two cartoons were commissioned to show different ways of encouraging kids with learning difficulties, no matter how stressed the situation might get! I learned a simple and valuable lesson about composition from the top one which I may add later. Both drawings were pen on paper, traced from pencil roughs with the aid of […]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Safe Landing 2-Page Comic
“Safe Landing” was put together as an entry for the International Christian Comics Competition 2. It was made digitally in Photoshop (mostly Photoshop Elements) with a Wacom Graphire 3 tablet and pen. I got third place in the professional section, which was pretty cool! Another Aussie got second. “Safe Landing” got printed in colour in […]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Coloured Pencil Wedding Portrait
The photo I referred to was old and nearly black and white, so I beefed up the colour a bit and hoped for the best! I’m happy with the results. I did this one on A3 paper.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Cartoony Portrait
This pencil portrait was a new style for me and I’m happy with how it turned out. I kept the proportions roughly realistic, only getting cartoony with the rendering.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Band Photo Mutation
Edited photo
Original band photo
Another crazy photo edit in Photoshop. It took a while but it was just plain fun! I basically only use the clone/rubber stamp tool and the plain brush tool to do this sort of this thing, so any reasonable free paint software would be good enough. I probably did this with Adobe […]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Horrorble Photo Mutation
Horrorble photo mutation
Detail
Original photo
I do like uglifying people. This edit was done in Photoshop.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I Love My Cat - One Page Comic
This little comic was made for an Australian Christian comics anthology called Pulp Crucifiction. I also entered it in the International Christian Comics Competition 2. It didn’t win but it got printed in the competition book (in black and white). The art was first drawn in pencil, then later I decided to add some digital […]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
When cartoons and numbers breed
Back in 2003 I was given a list of 110 numbers with a word or phrase attached to each number. I was to draw a cartoon illustration for each word/phrase with the appropriate number merged into the drawing. This was challenging, but also one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve worked on! It was a […]