Magazine illustrations

Here are a couple of illustrations for the Coast Kids Magazine.

one for an article on "Men in Childcare" and the other for "Mums in Business".

Peter Pan

this was created for the Children's illustrators club on Deviant Art.

the monthly theme for November was Peter Pan.

I used pencil and paper to sketch then a brush pen to ink followed by digital colors.

I had a Birthday on the weekend and my 12 year old son Talin made me a special birthday card.

I just had to share what a great job he did on the card and how lucky a Dad I am that he would go to so much effort.

I had a great day and received many nice cards and gifts, it was nice to be spoilt for the day.

Rats

I've been busy with some other illustrations and now have some spare time for goofing around just for fun.

Dragon sketch

here is an unused Dragon sketch from a few months ago it was for a book pitch I unfortunately didn't get. was a fun idea and would have been nice to do but thems the breaks. you can't get everything you want.

just playing around

I was just playing around with background textures in photoshop just having a bit of goofing around time. and this is the result.

some recent childrens book samples- Meg

The elusive Illustrator

Proving to be as elusive as Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. Rarely seen outside his natural habitat.
Finally, proof that the illustrator Craig Phillips does exist.


Marcelo Baez, Craig Phillips and I got together in a local Wollongong Vietnamese restaurant for lunch and a chat about comics, illustration and one of life's great mysteries the shortcut keys in photoshop.
It was good to catch up with the guys face to face again and hopefully it wont be as far between untill the next meet up.

Marcelo and Craig, very casual.

Craig and I

Spot illustrations

Here are a few spot illustrations that were published in the May /June issue of Coast Kids Magazine.

Ghost boy

this illustration was created for the Deviant art illustrators club site which this months challenge topic was Ghosts.

I really wanted to try and get away from the usual guy in a sheet, spooky ghost yelling boo and inject some sort of feeling or emotion into the image.

not sure if I succeeded but I did try.