Wow, it certainly has been a while since the last post! Things have been crazy busy with work so illustration got shoved ever so gently on the back burner but I’m getting pumped for some drawing sessions again so stay tuned!
Category: Art
Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival Design Prize!
Hey all… I’ve been busy drawing and painting things but nothing to show you all just yet! In the meantime, if you fancy yourself as a designer of most excellent and rad skillz, check this out! It’s a great comp with a nice little cash prize!
All you dudes and dudettes should get going and design up a storm.. word is, a certain illustrator is one of the judges too… um, me! 🙂
Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival Design Prize
The 2012 Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival Design Prize is back again this year and we’re once again seeking your creative talents to create the 2013 design concept for South Australia’s leading regional arts festival.
The chosen design will be used for all promotional material including a full colour 44 page programme, A3 poster, flyers, website, television commercial and more. This is a great opportunity to have your work viewed by mass audiences!
The invitation is extended to design an A3 poster for the 2012 Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival Design Prize.
The Prize
The winner will receive a $1000 cheque kindly donated by the Arts Festival Committee (wouldn’t that be great to put towards your next laptop or software?!) and the designers of two highly commended entries will each receive one dozen bottles of wine from Raidis Estate.
Submission Deadline
Poster concepts must be received by Friday, May 11. That’s only 9 days away!
Download the Design Prize info and submission form!
Further information about the festival can be found at: http://www.artsfestival.com.au with the 2012 programme being available for download in a week’s time.
For those interested, this year’s festival is running for a massive 12 days from May 17 – 27. Don’t forget to check the programme out for workshops, exhibitions and our headline acts.
Seek
Been a while… how have you guys been? 🙂
I think I am ready to get off now
Philosopher King
Another fleshing out piece for something I’ll paint one day.
Think big
A Saturday afternoon doodle, too f**king hot outside for anything else.
Knowledge #2
A new illustration for y’all and a new layout for The Creative Panic blog… su-weeeeeeeet.
The illustration is a very loose, stream of consciousness piece which I enjoyed experimenting with. Essentially, just draw and put down colour and lines and see where it goes.
Interestingly enough (I use the word interesting loosely), when I just put own marks, with no real concept in mind, I always seem to end up drawing faces that are almost self-portraiture in nature in that they are male, thinnish and with short hair and big ears and noses. The piece did end up becoming more coherent to me quite quickly and as I became aware of the theme I did consciously expand on it, but far be it from me to explain the piece so I’ll let you, the viewer find some meaning within it, or not! 😀
Hope you are all having an awesome week and no doubt you will be hearing from me soon.
Cheers
Ben
On my way down
So, the “One illustration a day for one year” project has come and gone and in what has become a habit, I am still drawing silly pictures daily. How wonderful. Here is Owl man… or On my way down… or, Untitled #1. You can name it whatever you like. I’m planning on expanding on this one and put it down with Oils which will be awesome fun hopefully…. hopefully.
The End (#365/365)
Well, there you go… 365 illustrations in 365 days. It’s been a pretty crazy year and I am pretty happy to be finished! The project has definitely done what I wanted it to do, in that I have improved my illustrative technique. I wouldn’t say I’ve got heaps better but I definitely have become a lot quicker and more efficient in getting my ideas down.
As of today the site has had 173,700 views and 1,261 followers which is just awesome. I didn’t expect to have my work seen by that many people and I’d like to thank everyone who commented or just popped by to have a look! I’ve also done some pretty crazy series in the past year with Skeleton Headwear being the most prevalent but I’d say my favourite would be the Alien’s are Real series and the Versus series. My favourite all-time illustration would probably be Ferdinand the Bull although I have a tonne more that I really love.
As with everything creative, I also drew some pretty crap illustrations over the past year but I wont mention them here 🙂
What’s next for the Creative Panic you ask? Well, I am going to continue to draw and this blog will become the showcase for some much more detailed and polished illustrations as well as promoting my skills to land some sweet illustration jobs!
Once again, thanks to everyone who visited and commented on the blog and make sure you pop over to The Developed, my new project for 2012.
Cheers
Ben Hood
Angry Red Johnson’s Hot Sauce (#364/365)
The second to last Panic. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow… It’s been a very fun project and I’ll talk some more on what it has done for me on the last ever illustration 🙂
The Creative Panic 