Self Portrait

Here’s a self-portrait of me wearing my favourite orange t-shirt while eating my favourite ice cream flavour, Neapolitan.

It's Monday and it's a dancing pineapple

Happy Monday everyone and here's a dancing pineapple to cheer you up.

On some other news this pineapple character along with some more fruity characters is part of an up coming project. More details to follow soon...

One Apple Two Apples

Growing up some of my favourite books were from Dr. Seuss, the characters and rhymes he came up with always made me laugh. This is my tribute to the legendary author.

This image is available on Society6 as a print, t-shirt or as a pillow: http://society6.com/r/QoAf

Spaceships

Spaceships in space no less.

New book: Consonant Digraphs Join Parade

Just finished illustrating another Word Plays children's book for Benchmark Education.  This one is called Consonant Digraphs Join Parade. Basically a bunch of letters are late for the balloon parade and they have to think of new balloons to make before they can join the parade. Below are a couple of my favourite illustrations.

New book: At the Comma Store

A couple of weeks ago I just finished illustrating another Word Plays children's book for Benchmark Education. The main characters family go to their local comma store and they learn all about commas. There's also the awesome band the Comma-Dores playing. Get it :)



The following is one of my favourite pages with the band Comma-Dores in full action.

Water Buddies Slap Watch

A little while ago I created a bunch of cute characters for a range of low sugar flavoured water drinks called Water Buddies. Just today I received a package that included a slap on watch. These slap on bracelets were all the rage when I was a kid.

Ready 1 2 3...

Slap on!



I just spent 15 minutes slapping on and off the watch. It's the simple things in life.

Factories

Quick illustration of an industrial estate filled with factories and pollution.

Collection of Wood

Just a study of different types of wood. It's nice collection of wood.

My Collection of Wood

When I was younger I always collected lots of things, like bottles, flags, key rings, Lego, coins and anything else that seemed interesting. To celebrate that here is a series of drawings showing off different types of collections.

You can purchase a print of this image from Society6 right here.

Babich and Stoli

Here is Babich and his loyal but ever suffering sidekick Stoli. They are the two main characters of a 30 page illustrated short story about a guy with a trash can as a helmet who wants to be the greatest warrior in the land.

Wedding Magazine Cover

Magazine cover for Ponsonby News for a special issue featuring articles about weddings and civil unions.

Traditional or Vector?

What do you think; traditional or vector?

Short Story Character Design

Here is the head of the main character for a short story project that I'm working on at the moment. It's a little different than my normal vector work so stay tuned for more!

Sky's New Home

Some recent work for a children’s book for a US publisher about a little girl, her grandfather and a flash new home.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a safe holiday and a Happy New Year.
It’s been a busy year illustrating and designing characters. I’ve been very lucky to work with a great bunch of people and clients. Some of my highlights have been illustrating two children’s books and working on a number packaging projects.
Plans for next year would include creating more personal work and projects. I also plan on creating more animated minishows and also resurrecting my plush toy line.

Kidsline website live

Last month I work with Richard from Fusion Communications to design some new characters for the revamp of the Kidsline website. So we went along with 5 New Zealand native bird characters, which was well received by the kids. The website is now live and it was a big change on the older version.
Kidsline is New Zealand’s original telephone counselling service for all kids up to 14, so it was opportunity to help this worth while organisation: www.kidsline.co.nz

Sea Monster

Just a quick illustration of a giant sea monster about to sink a ship. Illustrated for a publishing client that produces a boating magazine.

Illuniverse Project

Just a couple of planets created for  the Illuniverse project. From top left: Earth & Moon, Moon & Owl, Farting Planet, and Eating Planet.

That's Life magazine illustration

Completed this illustration for That’s Life magazine’s Fast Fiction section. Deadlines are always tight for these types of jobs but it always helps when the client provides a clear and concise brief. End result; the illustration complete ahead of schedule and the client happy. Now looking forward to seeing it in print.