Mr Leafy Final

Here's final image done up in p/shop. Next step will be to put it on a canvas. Verse from the Good Book (Bible).

JC

Mr Leafy concept idea

This is an idea for a canvas digital print that I'm working towards. I've already done monkey-man as a digital print which is cool. It's nice to have something that is tangible to see and touch. 
I'm also gonna add a little message with Mr Leafy.
Will post up when he's ready to go digital canvas.

whole lotta monkey business

These are some images that I've been noodling away at over the last month. The coloured versions are images I did last year and came across them only recently and thought I'd post them as well.
I've felt a bit guilty about not posting more images so I'll post a few more soon.
Peace 


JC..:)

Bear deck: Skateboard design

Started off by doing the little bear character. Inked up in illustrator. Tried to focus on giving the line some variation. 

Felt like I needed to put the character into some type of context so hence the skateboard design.

Really enjoyed doing this.

JC

Fonts used - biliz blur & Detective Inc

Used illustrator for inking bear, font placement and skateboard design; P/shop for colouring

Thank you card for some friends

Just a fun little project lately for some friends at church. Both my wife and myself created a card each.

Fun thing I learn't was creating the shooting stars, thanks to a cool tutorial online. Check out here Shooting Star.

Have a good one

JC

Background and colour up

Used illustrator to do the background and get perspective. Also blocked in colours and hoping to create a bit more atmosphere with some more depth especially in the background.

I've so enjoyed trying to incorporate more texture through patterns into this piece.

Total time taken....on going in between life and work.

Hope to finish this soon.

Bless...JC:)

Concept ink drawing

Just had to get something up on me blog. Will develop the background next...any ideas?? Finding backgrounds a challenge.
Used micron-pens .5 and 1.0 for outside.
Bless...JC   :)

Going banana's

I have a thing for monkey's.... I know, kinda weird aye.  So I've been kinda going a little banana's lately and started to draw around this concept - one thing lead to another and voila' you have the above image.
Everyone is going banana's and yes I've been watching a little too much tv lately, especially the news which makes you go banana's.
I do like banana's though, especially on toast with butter....yum.

JC...:)

comic with friend

A good friend of mine has giving me a comic draft. So I'm slowly putting together concepts for it.
It's aimed at a young audience...with the characters been somewhat a group of misfits that fit together to make up super hero's.
Going to be a great challenge. It'll be a 12 pg mini comic at this stage. Would love to get it in print too.

Sorry for the late blogging as of late - Time....arrgghhhh!!!!!

Hope all is well to everyone out in cyberspace...:) Bless JC

Wedding Caricature

A wedding caricature I did just recently. Did to A4 size printed out on nice paper and framed up.

This is the first drawing I've done in the last few weeks....hard making the time. I swore to myself that I wouldn't mentioned how starved I'd be for time on a blog but it's challenging balancing life/work. 

Take care and as alway's thanks for visiting.

...JC :)

BJ Builder logo

A logo design I did last year for my father in law who is a builder. I initially did the blue-line sketch to try and capture the essentials of his character. I felt that it was still a little busy so I re-did the image completely. I went with this one as I felt it more bought out his happy persona' in a exaggerated way.
Did colouring and inking up in Photoshop.

First Post: Welcome!!

Hello and welcome to my first post.

Who am I about and what do I want? Well -

I'm a freelance illustrator hoping to better myself everyday in my craft.

My hope is that this blog will become a place to grow and connect with others whom are passionate for character illustrations.

The above image is a submission I did for a t/shirt competition recently.

Though I wasn't successful, I really loved coming up with the idea.