Tag: illustration

Key to my Heart (#68)

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For Elle, Neave and Baby Hood #2

Today’s Panic is a personal one. My lovely and heavily pregnant wife pointed out to me last night I hadn’t dedicated an illustration to her so to rectify that here is today’s… You will notice the top of the key has the letters E, N and a ? for Ellen, Neave and Baby Hood #2 which is due in three weeks!

 

You girls (and whatever Baby Hood turns out to be…) have the key to my heart. Don’t lose it, they are expensive to replace 😉

 

 

The illustration today has a bit of a Mambo vibe, inspired by a few illustrative heroes of mine, namely Reg Mombassa and Jeff Ragless.

The Octopus Illustration (#67)

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O for Octopus!

OK, I took the easy option today and went with another animal… this time an octopus which seems to be the go to animal for predicting future events like the NSW Elections (mind you a blind sloth with a rotten apple for a brain could have predicted that outcome).

 

So, I hope you enjoy The Octopus Illustration!

Boris the Cossack Unicorn (#66)

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Boris gets down!

 

I haven’t done a character type Panic for a while so I thought today would be the day. I asked Neave what kind of thing I should draw today and she asked for a Unicorn. I didn’t have the Cossack theme in mind when I started but it took me a while to get the legs looking anywhere near correct and I just kinda gave up and decided the unicorn would be dancing and the way the legs were looking would have to do! 🙂

Neave has given a critique on the illustration by saying it sucks because unicorns don’t dance nor should have it been a boy.

 

Don’t Run! (#64)

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Don't Run!

My little girl Neave was wanting to do some craft this afternoon after childcare and she asked for some scissors. Once Elle had given them to her, Neave held them the proper way and moving at a glacial pace started walking towards her little table. It was very cute to see how slow she was going because she knew… you don’t run with scissors 🙂

 

Fear and Loathing (#61)

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Football season is over...

I’m a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan. His style and the mythos surrounding the man himself has always amazed me. He influenced a new genre of journalism dubbed gonzo and had the knack of not only putting himself into the story, but could pull in the reader in with him, wide-eyed and scared shitless.

I was watching a documentary on Hunter yesterday and became to appreciate the man even more so today’s One a Day is a tribute to the main himself.

Ralph Steadman, Hunter’s go to Illustrator with his hectic, insane ink-stained illustrations, is also a hero of mine. I didn’t want to copy Ralph’s style, but the text within Hunter’s glasses is a tip of the hat the Steadman’s typography.

I’m off to Sydney today for work so the next two One a Day’s will be done from there!

Backyard Rocketship (#60)

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Backyard Rocketship

I was watching the trailer for the new JJ. Abrams/Spielberg Produced movie Super 8. The tone of the film is very much like E.T., Close Encounters etc… capturing that eighties kid feel of anything being possible while riding your bike all day and never getting tired. I was thinking of all the crazy stuff we did as kids, like underground forts with elaborate tunnel systems, searching for caves and designing rockets to head into space!

The Lizard Illustration (#59)

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I love lazy weekends at home because it gives me a chance to spend a little more time on the daily Panic. I’m continuing the animal theme with a Frill-Neck Lizard, the coolest Australian Animal!

Drawing done in Illustrator with the Wacom board.