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The Mysterious Case of the Hairy Shapes (#22)

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Hairy Shapes... Mysterious critters!

I love children’s books, the quirkier the better I say. My daughter Neave has a book called “The Fidgety Itch” by Lucy Davey & Katz Cowley. It’s well illustrated and written and completely bug-nuts crazy! Just how I like it. I also like how the titles of many children’s books have a rhyming quality to them. Not in the traditional sense most of the time, but how the words roll of the tongue is fun and well, child-like.

So, on to today’s One a Day. A faux children’s book cover for the The Mysterious Case of the Hairy Shapes. I would buy a book like this for my kids, but I’m not sure too many others would… but I do like ’em weird! I’m obviously obsessed with hair at the moment with yesterday’s illustration being my hair and beard (or I’m lazy because hair is easy to draw!). The thought process behind this was really just draw something quirky, fun and fast… and this is what came out of my brain! Lettered with the bezier pen tool.

Self Portrait Two (#21)

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My hair and beard... wow. exciting stuff. 😐

Forgive me but it’s a bit of a slow day on the old ‘Panic with another self-portrait. Seems I’ve gone all “designer” on this one.

I was going to illustrate a female mullet (or Femmullet for the initiated) as per the request of Ms Bianca Gillin but I didn’t do it the justice it deserved and time was ticking, so I took the easy option and drew my hair (and beard). Truth be told, I got myself a flash new haircut yesterday! Mad props to Giannis!

I have been however, having mucho fun trying out new palettes and blend modes in Illustrator looking for that sweet high-key look that you see around in lots of photography these days… I think I nailed the tone with this one and I’m digging the gradient striations which normally I’d be fighting against in my paid print design work.

P.S. The Femmullet will make an appearance I promise!

The Modern Multi-linguist (#20)

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Rodney is a busy man.

The worldly gentleman in this day and age is a busy, hectic creäture. Gone are the days when one could relax in the study, sipping a cheeky Pinot and ponder the questions of existence. Likewise, the time taken to learn a second, third or fourth language is simply too much. This is why those who must keep up appearances enlist the help of the fine people at Google translate. The world becomes a veritable orgasm of multi-linguistics without the need for extended study be it French, Latin or German just to name a few.

Today’s illustration has taken me back to the “let’s get this stuff out the door quickly!” as opposed to the last few efforts which have taken me a little while longer to do. Nice bold lines, simple colouring and hand drawn lettering done VERY quickly! All done approx. 25 minutes for this one. Mad props to Mrs Simone Kain for the “I’m fluent in English and Google translate” phrase!

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Much too sweet! (#19)

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Look Neave... this is what happens!

No, I don’t have a tooth-ache today, but yesterday morning I was explaining to my sweet-toothed daughter how chocolate, ice cream and lollies can rot your teeth if you eat too much of them… she looked at me with a puzzling look, promptly dismissing the idea with a ‘don’t be silly daddy!” and proceeded to her tuck into her second Kinder snack bar in a row…. kids!?

So, I thought I’d demonstrate the effects of too much good stuff through some cute character design and pretty colours, that’ll each her! *ahem* yes, well.. at least I got out today’s illustration…

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