Perspective
In trying to improve and get better at all aspects of drawing I’ve been looking at creating whole story like images that push perspective.
The first was Rocket Kid. This was fun and came together relatively quickly and wouldn’t have been was it is without the help of my studio buddy, Rebecca Stewart - check out her amazing portfolio. Her experience in animation and life drawing really pushed me to put together a great dynamic composition.
The second was under the sea. This started out as fun colour but it was confused and lacked clarity so paring it back, pushing the perspective and using light to it’s fullest extent made it work. The text is there for balance as it was envisaged as part of a middle grade fiction book.
The third was a garden scene, and this was so very difficult. From doing this one, there are no shortcuts, if it’s not right, it’s not right so make it right, trying to find work arounds will take longer than doing it correctly in the first place.
There will be more to come, I have a lot to learn about colour, perspective, bodies and how they move and above all else telling stories with pictures.
Cheers!
me me me me me
I’ve been working hard getting portfolios ready for various submissions. Some to do with illustration and others for art, along with the normal day-to-day etc. It’s been both and interesting and worthwhile process, distilling what I want to do as opposed what I can do and allowed me the time to really find my strengths and hopefully the work I get from this will better reflect this.
About me
hand draw, digitally finished, 2019
In not only showing how I draw and what I want to draw I’ve also managed to distill my own self into a kind of self portrait. The cardigans, are very important. As is the coffee.
Cheers!
PS: If you’d like an infographic portrait of yourself or maybe as a gift for a friend, let me know!
Breathe
Breathe, digital with hand drawn elements, 2019
Gorn git!
Fish!
Down in the meadow there's a little, biddy pool...
Icons
I’ve often thought that the images available to me as icons for Instagram, Twitter etc were a bit boring and the same as everyone else! So I finally got around to making my own.
This is the sort of thing illustrators can do for people, why be the same as everyone else? Have something that is made just for you, reflects your personality and helps you stand out of the crowd! And I've updated my about me page!
Cheers,
Happy George
Recently I developed and illustrated a new character, for a disability service. Introducing: Happy George!
This little guy ties in with some other promotional material and is soon to be launched on their website.
Happy George is a friendly frog who like to say hello to everyone!
Happy George is technologically savvy!
Happy George is being used on colouring in sheets and word searches which I also developed. These will be available for people to download from their website .
It was great to translate the linear to the rendered colour and build up a stock of imagery around it all to describe the world in which George lives.
He will also be in explanatory material on printed documents and certificates.
It was a great project. I had lots of fun testing out techniques I've not used for a while. And it was fantastic to see it so well received by the client.
Hopefully the participants of the service like him too, because I'd love to do more of this!
Cheers and chin-chin,
Vote YES!
It's been amazing over the last couple of years to see the parade of unfairness and unkindness on all sides of politics in Australia. Less stealth like, which has been used in the past and more upfront meanness is really the hallmark of the last, I would say, four parliaments.
The downright misogyny directed at Julia Gillard. Her parliaments lack of action on same-sex marriage. Kevin Rudd and his off-shore detention hell holes. Tony Abbott dismantling of the carbon tax and eating onions, raw, with the skin on. And then we come to Malcolm Turnbull, beholden to the right wing conservative to keep his bum on the big chair. These are just a few of the craptacular highlights of the last seven years (yes, seven years - four Prime Ministers in seven - count 'em - seven years. You can see my eyes rolling from space.)
Malcolm has bowed to the pressure of his party room and they've dreamed up a non-binding, non-mandatory, non-plebicite postal survey about same sex marriage. Rather than do their jobs. It is going to cost over $120 million dollars.
As I write this the High Court of Australia are hearing a case against running the postal survey. So it may on may not even happen. But in the event that it does I'm nailing my colours to the mast.
YES : Love is love, let people marry.
So my birds for the weeks leading up to the non-binding, non-mandatory, non-plebicite postal survey (if it even happens) are all showing their support for changing the marriage act to be inclusive of all the people.
...and imagine, what the kindergartens of Australia would do with $120 million dollars instead.
Birdies everywhere!
I've been a bit slack with the blogging, but busy is as busy does and because not everyone has Instagram here's what I've been doing...
As you can see Birdies have exploded from my pencil and have taken a life of their own. Up to all sorts of adventures. Hopefully a wonderful and generous publisher can see the potential and gives me a call. I have so many ideas for what these little darlings can achieve, you just never know what they'll do next!
Cheers and chin-chin!
La, la, la, la, LAAAAA!
La, la, la, la, LAAAAA! Hilary Cresp, 2016