Caricature Me

Where have i been? Taking my sweet time with updates and creating quite a bit of art i'll have you know, in between other more important stuff of course ;)

So I was commissioned to create some cariactures for work of the Principals and now they're all done i can start to share them with you. It was a heck of a project but i've very, very proud of the results.

To start with we have Tax Principal Andrew who used to be an airline pilot and has the TDK hi-fi poster on his wall so i wanted to do a riff on that and am pretty pleased with the result.

And they are all being printed on A2 canvas to boot! First time i've ever been printed to canvas woohoo!

Anyhow hope you enjoy them over the coming weeks :)

Cheers,

Rob

Go the AB's!

Well the Rugby World Cup has finally arrived so i thought i'd do up a kiwi in support of our awesome team.

Go the AB's!

Have a great World Cup everyone!
Rob.

Shihad

My all-time favouritie kiwi band is Shihad. So when i had the chance to use some thick cardboard blocks for some artwork the idea to design a Shihad logo just screamed out to be done.

So here she is, it's done pencil, ink and vivd (sharpie) and i'm really happy with how it turned out.

Let me know who you think i should do next, and we'll see what i can come up with. :)

Cheers,

Rob

Happy Smurf Day!

Just found this over at article on the Smurf film and apparently today is 'Global Smurfs day'!

Lets have a Smurfin' day!

Sisters of Mercy - Mariah

Back in the late 90's Poison drummer Rikki Rockett teamed up with his good friend Mark Williams and created a set of comics through Rob Liefeld's Maximum Press (an imprint of Image Comics).



Soon after this they launched under their own banner of 'No Mercy Comics'. The titles they produced were a fun, interesting and typically Image-styled comic art. Three titles were produced including "Nightshade", "Coven 13" and my favourite "Sisters of Mercy".


"Sisters of Mercy" was a post-apocolyptic tale of two sisters - Malina & Mariah - living on an ark-like island filled with the last remaining animals on the planet. There are other survivers of whatever has happened to the earth and they live on other islands away from the animals.


The title encapsulated horror, fantasty, animal protection, adventure and a bit of cheesecake. All in all a fun read and a pity they never eleased the next series of the title.

Unfortunately Mark Williams died in 1998 (he did special effects work on Aliens, The Abyss & Terminator 2) - read his bio http://www.answers.com/topic/mark-williams-horror-children-s-family

Here's my sketch of Mariah - martial artist/warrior.
Cheers,
Rob.

Brixton Bricks & Coffee Beans

A few weeks ago i was lucky enough to have my guest-strip run on the Actionman Adam website
http://www.actionmanadam.com/2011/03/brixton-bricks-n-coffee-beans/

I wasn’t sure if I needed to explain the importance of the brick a bit more.

Apparently back in the late 70’s and early 80’s (around the time ‘The Clash’ and ‘The Sex Pistols’ were around) “Margret Thatcher’s Britain was the riot capital of the world. Thatcher may have ruled in Parliament but out on the street it was a different matter. From the first eruption of inner-city rioting in St Paul’s Bristol in 1980 through the July rioting across the country in 1981 to Brixton and Broadwater Farm in 1985 someone some- where was lobbing a brick or petrol bomb at Thatcher.” (IAN BONE). As far as I have been informed carrying a brick around in your pocket was a part of Punk culture as well (but I may be wrong about that).

So the Sniffles & Cough characters love punk music (especially 'The Clash') and always have a brick handy incase of interlopers. In this case the manic dude Greg.

Hopefully that's a little clearer than mud. :)
Enjoy!
Rob

Rally Mark, Brownie (the dog) and Racin' Red

Here's a little pic i did a while ago that i found just recently that i thought was pretty cool, so i thought i'd share it. Pretty happy with the anatomy though Rally Mark is looking more than a little scary. :)

Enjoy!

Rob