Semi Permanent book 2010 (2nd edition) is in my happy hands! Super, super stoked that my ‘Monster Tour’ illustration was selected to be in there Was very exciting to be flicking through the beautiful (hard back!) book  and seeing it looking out in all it’s grumpy monster glory.

As always the semi-permanent book is filled to the bindings with superb works from all around the world, a feast for the eyes and mind. Head on over to the Design is Kinky shop to get hold of past issues and look out for the release of the 2010 book 2 above when they do a reprint (they ran out at the semi-perm nz event!)

Stoked to find out the new board graphics I did for Carbon Art boards got featured in the latest Windsurf (UK) magazine! If you missed it I did a post before showing the new 2010 illustrations and designs I created which you can check out here.

If you’re wondering why it says ‘Recycled Carbon Art’ it’s due to the use of a great new fibre in the boards called Innegra – it’s made using a green factory process.

Apparently the new waveboards also got a show off in the latest Boards mag too…just trying to track down a copy here in NZ so I can have a look!

A fun quick illustrated invite for a friend A wonderful client to work for and provided some awesome inspiration with some great little characters. All based on the wonderful concepts of Dylan – as pictured below!

Extremely excited to announce the release of my latest work! The project was the redesign and development of the Carbon Art Wave Board range, looking to create a completely new look to reinvent and reinvigorate the boards aesthetic appeal…

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This weeks favourite photo is a sneak peek at a project I’ve been working on for a while…a new redesign of Carbon Art waveboards! Featuring all new illustrations and graphics that can be customized – letting board buyers choose their colour and choose the image for their board.

Releasing soon so will keep you updated with the full reveal as soon as I can!

I was stoked to be asked to design the Tshirt again this year for the New Zealand Wavesailing windsurf Nationals. This was the final result, featuring a fairly realistic illustration of the kind of conditions we usually get around here for the event. The style follows on from last years design and was of course the main highlight of the event for most competitors…well apart from maybe the winners .

Starting next week I’m pleased to annouce I’ll be taking part in the 12 Week Challenge! Set up, organised, strategized and instigated by Jonathan Woodward who runs the blog Zero 2 Illo, it invites illustrators from all around the world to step up to the challenge of building their illustration practice and business to new and allmighty levels! Or at least start setting the building blocks to a solid foundation of awesomeness

Beginning  April 5th me and nearly 60 other talented and diverse illustrators will be taking part in ‘The zero2illo 12 Week Challenge’. With our combined efforts and a community to assist each other on the way, here’s hoping it will help us all towards achieving our goals and ambitions. I will of course keep you updated on how things are going in the challenge, so be sure to keep checking back .

In the mean time head on over to check out the list of great illustrators taking part

Here’s a few images showing some of the process behind the creation of the Cubes I made for the recent Splore festival 2010 (see previous post). The brief and concept was all about creating something for festival goers to enjoy, interact, have fun and tie in with the theme of Midsummer Nights Dream 2050. An added essential was that it had to be able to survive 3 days with 7,000 people…

The concept I came up with was to build sixteen 40cm squared cubes with letters on several sides, patterns on another and one side that when fitted together correctly, formed a complete image.

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Just had to share the latest interview up over at Grain Edit at the moment. The site itself is one of my regular haunts, it features a lot of really great work from super amazing illustrators & designers around the world with a 50’s-70’s slant.

So this week they have posted up an interview with S. Britt, an illustrator that (may or may not?) resides in Pickleton USA. His work has that classic style,  but he definately stamps his own uniqueness to it all and wields his skills in a masterful manner. Personally I found the interview entertaining, enlightening and above all his responses where a refreshing change to the usual 1+1=2 interviews you normally read…head on over and check it out, make sure you have  few minutes to sit back and enjoy and be sure to stick around for the guaranteed succesfull recipe to  creative process!

Check out the interview here!

More of S.Britt’s work on his website.

And be sure to keep enjoying the ever enjoyable Grain Edit site!

*Ok, well strictly not completely free as you will require paper and pencil and also have to devote the time and effort to doing it yourself!

That’s right, go grab yourself these awesome free PDF books on art, illustration and painting and learn some great stuff! The drawing instructional books by Andrew Loomis (a great American illustrator 1892–1959) are now out of print and available to distribute due to their public domain status.

If you have any interest in the art of drawing, painting, illustrating, even design, then these really are great books to go through, learn and tell others about.

Head on over to these locations to download and spread the awesome resource and skills of Andrew Loomis:

Escape from Illustration Island
Placid Chaos
http://fineart.sk/
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