Hey, you should consume some new content!
I've been updating the site a bit lately, so there are some new things to look at! If you've been following my blog, or been to my show, you've seen my mechanical typography project, and I've given them their own page, which you can get to via the Projects page in the site banner. The other things I've added are my Mechanical Dancers, which I created for the show, and they now have their own section in the Different Worlds section. Have a look at the pages, let me know what y
Robot-Breakdancing into the future!
Yeah, I didn't really have any good breakdancing jokes after 'Electric Boogaloo'. I did a few different sketches of this dancer, as the pose and angle would have gotten a bit distorted quite easily. I really liked the stripe on the t-shirt, so I thought it was a good element to keep. The hair is great too (and a reminder of when I, too, had it), so it made sense to incorporate that into it as well. I had to do a few colour variations to properly get him to work. I liked the b
Robotic B-Boy 3...Wait, don't I know you?
This dancer should look familiar to you, and if he doesn't, I've put a helpful reminder below. Yep, he's the poster boy for my upcoming solo exhibition, Multi-Dimensional Urban Spaces (click here to get your free tickets)! The show is going to be a bit of a retrospective, but the Dancers are new material that will be getting displayed for the first time at the show. In case you haven't already seen, the opening night will be Wednesday 4th September, 6.00pm till 8.00pm, at The
My Exhibition is in What's On In Sydney
Another thing I find kind of cool, my solo exhibition is previewed on the City of Sydney's What's On site! Pretty cool for me! If you haven't got your tickets for Multi-Dimensional Urban Spaces...do it! It's free, and you'll get to see some art I'm really proud of! It's on Wednesday 4th of September at 6pm, at The Alley đường hẻm in Enmore. See you there! #mechanicals
Robotic B-boys
I thought I'd try combining a few interests I've already used in my art in a few different ways. This isn't the first time I've put my images with my photos, as you can see in my Portals series, but I thought I'd incorporate the Mechanical style I've used in the Mechanicals series and my typography project, and add a bit of hip-hop culture too. A well-timed photo of a b-boy dancing can be an amazing image. I found one which I thought was a really expressive pose, and appropri
Flashback - The Gentleman
Hey, I just found out The Gentleman's name! This is Robert Cornelius, the first person to take an image (a daguerrotype, not a photograph) of himself. So there you go, a little history lesson for us all. The Gentleman was another piece that really started out as an experiment. Summer and L'ermitage had been based on art nouveau paintings, but I wanted to see if I could take an image from the same period as those two, and turn it into an image in a similar style. Cornelius' d
Flashback - L'ermitage
I think this was the last picture I made before I left London for Sydney. L'ete had made me feel that my Art Nouveau / robot idea was a good one, but I didn't think I'd completely nailed it. When I found this Paul Emile Berthon image, I knew it would be a better image to appropriate, as all of the framing and decoration had great potential for being updated. Also, it's just a fantastic image. This was, as you can imagine, a very long pencilling stage. I really wanted to appro
Some more typography and Photoshop skills
As promised, here are some more examples of how I used my vowels as a pattern. The first one was more complex than it perhaps looks - I had to erase this guy's t-shirt, and do two versions of the pattern, one with black lines, and one with a white outline. It was worth it though, as I'm really proud of how this one came out. This other one is more conventional, but involved trying out a different pattern. #mechanicals #lettering #letters #typography #finishedart #photography
Flashback - L'été (Summer)
You know what? I realised that, since I launched this site, there hasn't been any of the process stages for my older work. I thought I'd give that a go, and also use the opportunity for a bit of a self-critique, so here's the first of my Mechanicals pieces, Summer, or L'été, to give it it the title of the poster it's based on. Here is that original poster, Les Saisons: l’été, by Alphonse Mucha from 1896. It's a pretty beautiful image, especially the expression on the model's
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