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Finely Feathered (#117)

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The Panic started as an opportunity for me to stretch my illustrative muscles (or lack thereof) and escape the bounds of day-to-day design work. This means I’ll try to experiment with many styles over the course of the 365 illustrations I’ll be doing. As the past few Panic’s have been rather simple ones I thought I’d get a bit more involved! 🙂

Once again, drawn, lettered and coloured in Illustrator CS4 and then textured in Photoshop.

Project Yourself (#116)

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Ok, this really is a stream of consciousness illustration… in which the concept can be explained conveniently in dot point form for those of us with busy lives.

  1. Simone, my business partner and I have been involved in the Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival and part of that involvement is the Illumination of the South Projection Art Installation where motion graphics and other imagery get projected on to the side of buildings in Penola.
  2. On the way home from the weekend’s festivities, my wife and I were discussing how Lady Gaga’s recent song has a very similar sound to Express Yourself by another “considered-shocking-back-then” artist from the eighties. I’ve since been singing Express Yourself in my head and it’s starting to drive me crazy.
  3. Also for the Festival, Simone and I were judges in the Design Prize Competition where designers submit posters and the winner’s piece being used in all promotional material for the coming years festival and landing $1000 prize money! One of the pieces that was awarded a highly commended was a very awesome piece of lino-cut.
  4. I have watched some interesting documentaries of late about some of the most dangerous and brilliant artists of the past 50 years like Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson who are all similar in that they were only ever just themselves. No projection of anything else but who they were.

So with none of that in mind before I started drawing, when I came to the end of the illustration the above is what I attribute the Panic to.

Whoa. Deep. Not really… 🙂

When good fruit goes ZOMBIE bad (#114)

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Strawberry Zombie... wasnt that a Prince song?

I love fruit and I love zombies and when I combine the two, the “When Good Fruit Goes Bad” series get’s another illustration added to its ranks!

Below are the other two in the series.

Cash Grab (#112)

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It’s not often I get political as there are always two sides to every story but today’s Panic is a little dig at the South Australian government. It has recently been approved by the government that the forests rotations in the state’s south east (my region) will be forward sold and there is a real risk of nasty economic consequences for our cities and towns. The selling of the forests is a fairly blatant cash grab on behalf of the government and add to this the approval of the building of a new football oval in the centre of Adelaide, it really makes us regional folk feel like we have got the short end of the stick.

If you would like to know more, check out the campaign that was run to stop the forward selling here.

Now the illustration is about as subtle as a sledgehammer and really not that witty which all good political cartoons should be, but hey, I only set aside a small amount of time each day to knock these Panic’s out! 🙂