Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope Santa is good to you! Here Is a Christmas Card Illustration that I have done for Sweets Workshop. It features Sydney's Favorite bird the Ibis aka the Bin Chicken.
Showing posts with label Sweets Workshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweets Workshop. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Happy Honkin' Christmas!
Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope Santa is good to you! Here Is a Christmas Card Illustration that I have done for Sweets Workshop. It features Sydney's Favorite bird the Ibis aka the Bin Chicken.
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Dulwich Hill Village Fair Logo Design
Here is a look at the logo I created for the Dulwich Hill Village Fair through my work at Sweets Workshop. The Fair was such a lovely event showcasing the best the local area has to offer. It was also pretty great to see the logo I designed all over the place.
Monday, February 19, 2018
Bin Chicken Illustration
I recently drew this image of everyone's favorite Australian bird the ibis (Australian Bin Chicken). I have released the illustration as an Art Print and T-shirt through Sweets Workshop.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Face the Music - Exhibition Opening
Here a a few photos from the opening of my exhibition Face the Music. I would love to thank all the friends, family and music fans who dropped by to check it out.
The exhibition runs until the 9th of December 2017 at Sweets Workshop Gallery in Sydney, Australia. Shop 4, 58-60 Carlton Cres, Summer Hill 2130. If you can't physically make it in to check out the exhibition you can view the entire show online here.
Face the Music is an exhibition of paintings of some of the most famous faces in music. I have hand-painted over 30 vibrant portraits that feature some of his favourite iconic musicians from across the decades. These include; Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Nirvana, Radiohead and many, many more.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Illustrated Greeting Cards for Sweets Workshop
Here is a look at a range of greeting cards I illustrated for Sweets Workshop. They cater for every occasion from Bon Voyage, Birthdays, the birth of a new child to just because. You can pick up any of these cards at Sweets Workshop's online store here.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Eye Scream Sundae Halloween Illustration
First up Happy Halloween! YAY! Here is a look at my illustration for this year's Food Fight collaborative exhibition and calendar at Sweets Workshop. Food Fight is an annual exhibition & calendar featuring artwork and recipes by Australian artists & makers. If you like the look of the calendar you can purchase it here.
This year's theme is Seasonal Love, so I decided to illustrate a Halloween piece to be featured in the month of October in the 2016 calendar. For this illustration I wanted to revisit the style and characters I created for my Haunted House Rock exhibition from a few years ago. I began by sketching a scene set inside a 1950's diner.
I wanted the scene to look like it was straight off the set of Happy Days, with Frankie out on a nice romantic Halloween date with his latest squeeze a seductive Vampirette. Also in the background I decided to draw a Teen Werewolf listening to his favorite new hit on the jukebox while howling at a female waitress who looks like she has emerged from the Black Lagoon.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Fast Food Friends Sticker Set
I've been working on these fast food illustrations for a while now and I decided to turn them into a sticker set. I printed these sticker packs with the help of the awesome folk at Rockin' Stickers.
Each pack includes 3 totally rad, super high quality vinyl stickers featuring: the ever cheesy Supreme Pizza Dude, the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Inspired Burger Time and the effervescently gorgeous Soda Pop! You can pick up a set of Fast Food Friends Stickers shipped anywhere in the world from my online shop here or in store at Sweets Workshop.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Boxing Kangaroo - K.O. Editorial Illustration
Here is a look at an editorial illustration commission I have just finished of a boxing kangaroo looking a little worse for wear, after a tough boxing bout. Traditionally the boxing kangaroo is a symbol often displayed prominently by Australian spectators at sporting events. It is an image that is widely considered Australia's sporting flag.
My illustration is to accompany an article discussing the tough time Australia is having in the global financial market at the moment. Hopefully this little guy has a good rest and finds his fighting spirit again really soon.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Genre Bookmarks for my local library
I was lucky enough to illustrate these genre bookmarks for my local library of Ashfield in Sydney through my work at Sweets Workshop. This project was such a fantastic one that I thoroughly enjoyed working on.
It involved librarians choosing a genre and compiling a list of their favourite authors to recommend to their customers. I was then given the task of illustrating the front of each of the bookmarks.
The genres included: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Australian, Cosy Crime, Crime & Thriller, Young Adult Fiction, Junior Fiction and my personal favourite Graphic Novels.
While illustrating the bookmarks I wanted to keep some graphic elements unified e.g. the placement of the open book and the centre circle.
I then used colour, hand drawn silhouettes as well as positive and negative space to create illustrations that represented each genre.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Happy Lunar New Year!
This is a poster I designed and illustrated for Ashfield's 2015 Lunar New Year festivities, through my work at Sweets Workshop. The events celebrate yáng, the eighth sign of the 12-year cycle that is represented by a goat, sheep or ram!
I had a great time illustrating this golden hybrid ram/sheep and used a traditional style and colour palate so it would be instantly recognisable as poster for Chinese New Year!
Monday, December 22, 2014
Secret Santa - A Comic Book Inspired Christmas Card.
Who is this masked merrymaker running through the streets of Christmas Town? This is a Christmas card that I illustrated and designed for Sweets Workshop this year. I wanted Santa and his Elves to become superheroes... So I came up with Secret Santa and his Extraordinary Elves! The typographic and graphic design elements on the card were inspired by silver age comic book covers from the 1960's and 1970's.
This is the original sketch of Secret Santa and the Extraordinary Elves that I came up with.
Here is the final card all printed up on 100% recycled paper, you can pick it up from Sweets Workshop.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Do The Sausage Dance! - Limited Edition Print
I created this illustration for Sweets Workshop's Annual Food Fight Exhibition and Publication. The 2013 theme was The Festive Feast and what's more festive than a group of sausages having a dance! I've actually had a simple sketch of this design sitting in a sketch book for a few years now so it was great to have such a wonderful excuse to turn it into finished art.
The Posters are of a limited edition size of 100 and are all hand numbered by me. You can pick up a copy here.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Christmas Speech Baubles
I recently designed this set of Christmas Speech Bauble decorations for our shop Sweets Workshop. We had them laser cut out of acrylic by our friends over at Online Laser Cutting they turned out great and brighten up any tree!
Anyway I think this post is a good one to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Pack of Heroes - Exhibition Opening Video!
Here is a video I put together from the opening of the Pack of Heroes exhibition. It features a brief chat with the
game's creator Phil Walker-Harding and me. You can still
support the game over at Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1425721404/pack-of-heroes-a-superhero-card-game
Also if you haven't made it into Sweets Workshop to see the exhibition yet it has just been extended until the 25th of June.
Also if you haven't made it into Sweets Workshop to see the exhibition yet it has just been extended until the 25th of June.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Pack of Heroes - In The Press
Pack of Heroes was featured in a great article in the Inner West Courier, on Tuesday the 4th of June 2013. Big thanks to Lauren Murada for writing such a
fantastic article and Simon Cocksedge for taking such a great Photo. If you haven't checked out the exhibition yet its on until the 18th of June at Sweets Workshop.
Photo © Simon Cocksedge
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Opening of Pack of Heroes - The Exhibition
Here are a few photos from the opening of my exhibition, Pack of Heroes at Sweets Workshop! The exhibition featured the artwork that I've created for an up-and-coming card game by Adventureland Games.
If you didn't make it to the opening, the exhibition runs until the 18th of June so you still have heaps of time to check it out. Also if you liked what you saw and wanna get copy of the game as well as bragging rights for helping it get produced it is now up on kickstarter so head on over to www.packofheroes.com and follow the link!
I Would also love to thank my wonderful and super supportive friends and family who came out to the exhibition opening on Saturday. I really appreciate your support and it was fabulous to finally show you what I've spent most of this year working on!
If you didn't make it to the opening, the exhibition runs until the 18th of June so you still have heaps of time to check it out. Also if you liked what you saw and wanna get copy of the game as well as bragging rights for helping it get produced it is now up on kickstarter so head on over to www.packofheroes.com and follow the link!
I Would also love to thank my wonderful and super supportive friends and family who came out to the exhibition opening on Saturday. I really appreciate your support and it was fabulous to finally show you what I've spent most of this year working on!
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| This is me with Pack of Hero's Game Designer Phil Walker-Harding |
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Pack of Heroes - The Exhibition
Yes, you read correctly my Illustration and Graphic Design work for the up-and-coming superhero card game, Pack of Heroes is going to be featured in its own art exhibition.
When: May 18th - June 18th
Official Opening: 2pm Sat May 18th. Come down to meet the creators of
the game and even have a play of the game before its release!
Where: Sweets Workshop, Shop 4, 58-60 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill, NSW Australia 2130
More Information: Pack of Heroes has been developed by local Summer Hill game designer Phil Walker-Harding of Adventureland Games (www.adventurelandgames.com) with characters and artwork by Sweets Workshop's very own John D-C (www.johnd-c.com).
Pack of Heroes is an action packed card game where players control a team of comic book superheroes and battle it out in a quest to gain control of Power City.
The Exhibition will unveil 30 brand new superhero characters that John D-C has illustrated for the game as well as feature a behind the scenes look into the development process of the game.
Pack of Heroes is an action packed card game where players control a team of comic book superheroes and battle it out in a quest to gain control of Power City.
The Exhibition will unveil 30 brand new superhero characters that John D-C has illustrated for the game as well as feature a behind the scenes look into the development process of the game.
Monday, April 8, 2013
The Resonance of Obsolescence-Gocco Prints
I recently dusted off my print Gocco machine again to create a set of four all new 2-colour prints for Sweets Workshop's third annual My Goodness My Gocco Exhibition.
This year I really wanted to create a series and thought it would be fun (and a little different to my usual character based illustration work) if I drew a few of my favourite things which I had lying around the house. As it so happened the four I ended up deciding on had one thing in common they were all things that could be described as being obsolete, so that's what I ran with. The idea of obsolescence then got me to thinking about the noises that these objects once made. Specifically that when an item of technology becomes obsolete or superseded the noises they once made are no longer heard, so I decided to start a bit of a conversation between them.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Attack of the Pizza!
For Dinner or Breakfast, Served Hot or Cold. You never know when it will strike.
So this blog post is a little late but last year I did the above illustration for Sweets Workshop's Annual Food Fight Exhibition which had the theme Snack Attack!
The pizza alien characters carrying ray-guns in the poster are something I've been doodling since I was in about the 3rd grade. I had a pencil sharpener in the shape of a slice of pizza and when I used to stand it up the arrangement of the toppings on it resembled a face.
A hand numbered, limited edition print of this poster is available now over at Sweets Workshop's Online Shop.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Tea Towel
Here is a quick pic of a brand new tea towel I have designed called Dorothy Dish and Edward Spoon's Photo Album, it follows the love story of the Dorothy and Edward after that faithful meeting and is based on a zine I produced a while back. It's available now from Sweets Workshop.
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