While watching the latest Pirates of the Caribbean, drawing and reading a book at the same time by
Rob Mcleay called Pirate Arrrt! I was deep in pirate territory.

I came across a great page on expressions and gave it a shot, before I knew it I had filled the A3 sheet of paper and started on another before the movie had reached half way.

Fun was had with every one.

Click the image below for a larger view.

From imagination to roughs to finished art.
It is possible to illustrate anyone or anything.

Here we have a pirate with an entire pirate ship as a hat and his bomberdier mate who can fire cannon balls from his head, genius!

Children’s books and Magazine editorials glow with big, bright illustrations, usually the stranger the better.

Ah Waiter? theres a foot in my soup!
These character designs are pushing the conventional shape of the body and where facial features are placed. Just look where the mouth is on the waiter and where the eyes sit on the man sitting down, there half way off his head!
They push the character outside the box which creates fun, rememberable, emotional and interesting illustrations.

Using 2-d and elements of 3-d adds dimension to the character.

These illustrations have not only a basic flat colour stage but secondary shadowing and highlights using flat colour and limited gradients.
Its a wonderful style and works great in print and online.

Grok Magazine Cover Illustrations – Treasures from the past

Here is another cover that I think was pretty cool.
The digital version on the left and the final printed magazine on the right.

And another that came out just as clear and bright as the digital version.
The theme was Trailer Trash if you were wondering.

And two more. I really enjoyed doing the 3D version even though with the glasses on it didn’t work

Wow looking through old hard-drives you can find some treasures. But I’ll just post a few more.

Here are two illustrations that were done for Curtain University’s Grok Magazine. (Before the logo and titles were added)

With a very faint brief, anything goes for this student magazine.
Both illustrations were drawn in pencil and then completed in Adobe Illustrator.

Arrr it be a Pirate Ship!

This digital illustration/painting was done for practice a while back with a Wacom Tablet.
I found the picture while diving deep into the murky waters of and old hard drive.

My favourite part about this illustration is the colour scheme and that it was created from a reference photo which I took while traveling in Western Australia.

Happy new year! Far out its nearly February already!

Were happy to start the year off with our fresh new site!

Plenty of areas for us to dive in to and update, a new blog, a great new homepage, massive portfolio and plenty of information for those who want to know more about our illustration process.

Oh and our site is compatible on everything from a 90″ widescreen to an ipad2, to an iphone4.

Its going to be a big year we just know it if last year is anything to go by.
Super excited about what new illustrations will be created and will come to life.

“Illustrators sharpen your pencils!”

Paul