Comic Book

I've been privileged to work on a comic book project with a team of talented artists.

It's been a long term project which has lasted almost a year (and still going!), but it's exciting to face the challenges of storytelling, and keeping the consistency throughout the series. I guess having to alter my style for the different demographic makes it even more challenging.

Here are a couple of samples of my work.

Dan's been helping me out with the colours and I've been finishing off the pages with the lettering. It's been a fun project and I'm glad I got to try it out.

Stripes

Dan was working on his new drawing for Illustration Friday.

The new word is "Stripes", so I decided to join in. This is just a quick drawing in ink on paper.

Halloween Monster Window

It's almost Halloween! I've finished a few more chapters of the comic book (which I've been working on since the beginning of 2011), so I decided it was time for me to have some fun too. It is totally not because Dan has been working on several Halloween illustrations.

Time for some sexy WIP:

Quick sketch

Pencil drawing

Finalised in pen

Scanned in Photoshop for some colourful times!

It's a little (?) different from what I usually do. But isn't that what Halloween is all about? - To go nuts? No? Why not?

Because this illustration was such a contrast from "the norm", it took a bit of convincing from my husband. He's a comic geek. It only makes sense that he likes this. Right? Yes? Yes.

Three Wise Monkeys

I have been feeling a bit burned out from work, so I decided to work on a personal project.
We have recently been watching Bill Bailey's documentary on baboons. So I thought I'd have a go at drawing those furry creatures - Baboons that is. Not Bill Bailey.
Baboons always seem so emotional, so I thought I'd incorporate their nature into doing "Three Wise Monkeys"

Hear No Evil - They are loud, so when they scream, I imagine they can't hear shit.
See No Evil - They tend to flash their buttoms to initiate friendship
Speak No Evil - They are only quiet when they have their mouths packed with anything edible.

Here's a rough sketch I did to figure out what I wanted it to look like.

And then finalised it in pen before imitating the woodcut look in Photoshop.

I wish I could've done the real printmaking but alas, I do not have all the equipment with me.

Fiona and Ross' Wedding Invite

My good friend Fiona is finally getting married after dating Ross for 8 years. So of course I offered to do their invite for her. They are a couple of really fun and interesting people so I wanted it to show in the design.
She really liked the end result, and because that means I don't have to get her a wedding gift, so am I. (Just kidding!)
Congratulations again to Ross and Fiona. I can't wait till the wedding.

Portrait Marathon

Dan and I have been doing quick celebrity portrait sketches in our spare time.

It's been pretty fun to compare how we've drawn each portrait, although I haven't always got it right with some of them - strangely all females)

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Great actors:

Comedians:

 

Mythbusters crew:

 

Back To The Future!

Inspiring Stories Film Festival Poster

Inspiring Stories Trust is a new organisation that trains young kiwis to become better film makers.
They have asked me to design a poster for their end of year film festival.

I wanted to keep the essence of "inspiration" in the design, but still fun enough to get the young viewers' interest.
After so many different ideas and concept drawings, I finally came up with the design I liked.

And the final pencil sketch

ReignDrops Music Video

While I was frantically packing up to move to another city whilst getting things prepared for my wedding I was fortunate enough to pick up a project to work on a music video for ScholarMan.

Here are some of the designs that were used in the video.

This project was completed in about a month. The employer was always so enthusiastic about my ideas and patient during the times of silence (the fun editing times, which resulted in many computer crashes).

I could not have had more fun working on it. Once it was finished, I had a calm sense of "THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO EVERYDAY!"