Adelaide Fringe 2010

This is my entry for the Adelaide Fringe 2010 poster competition which is celebrating its 50 year anniversary in 2010.

The concept of my design is to tie both contemporary ideas of the festival and contemporary art with that of the decade in which the festival began - 1960s. The monkey astronaut is a symbol of a brave new fronteer in space exploration undertaken during the festival's early years. This, as well as the relvolutionary poster style, are symbols of the festivals cutting edge image and pride.

Started as a sketch, then drawn on the computer.

You can check out the competition details at Adelaide Fringe Website.

Grammophone

I actually started this about 3 years ago but it was then tossed in the 'out of site, out of mind' folder where it remained for ages. Those of you who studied with me might recognise it from class though it has changed conciderably since then.

Its a very time consuming way of drawing which I have long since evolved out of. Sorry to say you won't see much else like this with out me seeing some cash first.

The Taste of Concrete

When I was about 12 and really starting to get into skating, I read this poem in Australian Skateboarding Magazine. I say a poem but it didn't ryhm and it was pretty long. Anyway, it was written by some pro skater who was talking about how he became good. He said that there was no easy way to getting good. You had to get out there and push yourself to your limits everyday and blah blah blah. Now that I'm thinking of it, it all sounds a little cheesy but the last line is what really got me. "So go taste the concrete". Sort of like 'you have to spend money to make money' he reconed you had to spill some blood and really eat sh!t inorder to get good.

Ok, this is a fairly simple concept, but to a 12 year old this is where it all started for me. This is a poster to honour that.

It started off as a hand drawn illustration using my own board as a reference. I then scanned it and verctorised it and added some smaller details.

Pimp my Tuk Tuk

Like you haven't had the exact same idea from the back seat of a tuk-tuk. I had one which was particularly bad in Cambodia. It was held together with hope, seemed to leak more oil then I thought was possible and it never missed a good opertunity to stall - like bridges, dodgy neighbourhoods and at lights.

Buddha Skateboard

I started with a hand drawn illustration. It was then scanned, traced to create an outline before finally adding colour. Using the final coloured digital illustration I created a stencil and transferred it onto a skateboard.

Johnnie Stumbler

Johnnie Stumbler is the drunken alter ego of one of my good friends. I drew this parody graphic up and we printed it to a T-shirt for his birthday. Fun was had by all.

Bell UH-1D

A vector illustration of my favorite helicopter, the Bell UH-1D or 'Huey' as they were affectionately known during the Vietnam War. This is one of the only illustrations I have done in a while that uses gradients to show shadow.

It's based on a photo I took during my time in 'Nam and is going in my travel diary when I have time to finishing it.

Zoe

Zoe use to ask me a lot if she should dye her hair? To which I never had a decent answer... until now. I drew a portrait of her and then changed the hair colour to every colour I could think of. When she got home I showed her and she never asked me again.

Here is the main portrait and an example of some of the colour changes.