neato

oh yeah

girl whose name I forgot who kinda looked like Lily Allen when I was real drunk and was a big fan of my stuff apparently and had emailed me once but I couldn't remember, who had a crappy old boyfriend but had a new boyfriend who visibly wasn't too thrilled about you raving on to me, drop me a line.

Some recent capers

Pretty straight forward, and self explanatory I guess. For a club night at Good Luck, called Bad Luck.

 

A couple of odd in-jokes were the influence for this. I'd never really tried to draw caricatures of anyone I knew before. Figured now was as good a time as any. Turned out pretty well... apparently they were recognisable from a thumbnail, but someone might've just been polite.

 

My design for Camp A Low Hum. Again, somewhat of an in-joke for anyone at last years Camp. A bunch of bongo playing bastards went pretty much 24/7 and were a major pain in the ear to a lot of people. Just in a something-to-grizzle-about way though. Anyway, I thought it'd be funny, and people did seem to appreciate it, so, mission accomplished.

Speaking of Camp, I'm still recovering from this years. I had an amazing time! Basically 4 days of hanging out with great friends, having a lot of laughs, a lot of drinks and a lot of party hard. Some bands played too. But yeah, mostly just had an awesome time with my friends. We may've had one of the most dero campsites in the whole place, but when you're having that much fun who has time to vigilantly bin beer bottles? WHO DAMMIT?!
We tidied it all up at the end anyway. Go team!

El Guincho

 

A slight departure

As you can see (if you're even vaguely familiar with my work anyway) this is pretty different from other recent stuff. This was borne partially out of feeling kinda stale on my usual methods, and partially I just wanted to hoon about in photoshop again. Plus I've realised designing stuff all the time to look like screenprints is kinda dumb if they're never going to be screenprinted so I may as well make the most of my tools. No doubt I'll get over this way of thinking by the time my next poster comes up.

Conceptually I'm really happy with this poster. Make of it what you will, but I think it works in both a glass half-full way, as well as the more pessismistic take.  All depends on your outlook.  Also, it should be noted the poster loosely includes all the old So So Modern costume colours (Red Blue Green Yellow). The other thing was, when I came up with that band-aid peace sign idea, I googled around a bunch trying to find an example of it. It seemed like one of those super obvious ideas that would've been done somewhere. And no doubt it has. but I couldn't find it. No doubt some bastard will go, re-do the idea even better and makes a billionty dollars off it and I will huff futilely on this here blog.

I'll make a process post shortly,  including the initial sketches and scribbles that kicked it off, plus the aborted Flash-drawn version and the evolution of the final piece. Not that any of you even give a shit! Bastards.

Vomit! at My Disco

I'm pretty stoked on this one. Best one I've done in a while I think.

2009 eh?

Happy new year everybody.

NYE

And another newie. I've been doing the posters for these MUM club nights in Auckland, but the first ones I did were going off the template the guys who run the Sydney nights created. I'm looking forward to doing more stuff for these guys though... posters every week, with fairly diverse headliners and the like. Should be a good challenge.

Comeback Kid

This is kinda pretty different for me. Or at least I feel like it is. First time I've tried doing the 'picture of a chick' poster. This was at the promoters request pretty much, and I struggled with it for a while before I found my direction. I didn't agonise over the line work too much either and it worked out pretty well... doesn't look as loose as it is. Or something. Either way, I like this poster a lot. I like it more now than when I finished it a couple of nights ago too. I might rip the text off this and work on it a little more. Turn it into an art print. Could potentially be a good series. Give me an excuse to practice drawing faces anyway. I used photo references pretty heavily, but modified it all enough that hopefully no one sees themselves and gets offended. or stoked. haha. That just gave me an idea....

oh yeah, I own a couple of Brian Ewing's gig posters. His work definitely had an influence on this poster.

oh oh yeah, my camera was out of batteries on exhibition opening night so no photos I'm afraid. I'll take some photos when I go in next though. And anyone out of town who was interested in prints, hit me up. The opening was insane though!  So many people. The free booze didn't last long at all, but people seemed to stick around for a while. It was a weird experience. I'm still processing it somewhat. I'll write more soon, and put up pics.

XmasX

It feels like forever since I did a poster. Been so mad with exhibition planning and the like that actual work has been sidelined a little.

Anyway, here's a poster for a Xmas show. I was a bit stuck on this one conceptually, then after thinking about the name Antagonist, the Grinch seemed perfect.  So that's what I did.

This one's notable for being the first time I've probably intentionally infringed on someones copyright somewhat. By which I mean, done an interpretation of an established character. I've never felt comfortable with my drawing style (for what its worth) enough to attempt it... but, well... I guess I do now. feel comfortable enough to do it I mean. for a finished piece o' work.

I'm very tired. Was up late, then couldn't get to sleep for some stupid reason, and when I DID sleep, it was pretty uneven.  I'm sposed to be called up for a radio interview about my exhib, but they're 20 mins late so far.  How wude! I imagine I'd be fairly low priority though.

Speaking of radio interviews, I'll be live on air at Radioactive on Tues night, and on VBC on Weds night. A regular man about town I am.