GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE COVER
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE COVER
I almost forgot to include this one!
I produced it a couple of months ago for the cover of Sony’s The Gramaphone magazine.
I was asked to turn a colour photograph of the modern composer John Williams into a traditional and old fashioned, marble bust and add him alongside two of the musical giants from history.
This provided a challenge, which I usually respond to.
First of all I desaturated the colour photograph and then began cutting, cropping and blending chunks of the image to give me a more straight-on view.
I then sourced various marble busts, took reference photographs and began carefully to capture textures and highlight information from these photographs and use them judiciously to alter the original photograph.
Then all that remained was to create a few bases in Form Z and add names below the set of three composers.
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4 MORE TOLLHOUSE CHARACTERS.
4 MORE TOLLHOUSE CHARACTERS.
After the initial four characters were successfully received, I produced a second set for Sterling Brands, featuring more holiday favourites.
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CHARACTERS FOR TOLLHOUSE COOKIES
CHARACTERS FOR TOLLHOUSE COOKIES
I was recently commissioned to create and illustrate eight holiday characters for the Nestlé Tollhouse cookie range by Sterling Brands in New York. So picking up my trusty pencil, before I even switched on a single pixel, I began to sketch out a few dozen variations of these eight, traditional holiday characters.
These were then scanned and emailed for approval to the 17th floor of the Empire State building – they wouldn’t pay the airfare for personal delivery!
It will be no surprise to learn that Photoshop was employed yet again to illustrate the final art.
They all seemed to be very well received but the Santa remains my favourite. I think I have now illustrated his cheerful face around 6 times or so for products such as electric cookers, pyramidal shaped chocolate bars, greetings cards, carpets and now American cookies! Maybe one day they should all have a roll call together.
These are the first four charcters plus a close up of Santa.
It was suggested that I might have a bit more ‘chat’ on my blog, so was that OK Julie?
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TUMBA GAME BOX
TUMBA GAME BOX
Concept and illustration for Tumba game – match ’em and stack ’em.
This was a commission by Optical Design, and it involved creating the whole game virtually in Form Z and then rendering and taking post production artwork into Photoshop.
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SPLOBS TARGET GAME
SPLOBS TARGET GAME
The amazing Splobs game features six colourfully illustrated targets which you throw large lumps of goo at!
It’s a fun throw-and-splat game and was commissioned by Optical Design.
The artwork features Robots, Frogs, Snotty Aliens, Fish, Bugs and a Crazy Band.
Initial sketches were provided by fellow illustrator Gary Swift (garyswift.com) as I was hampered at the time by having my arm in a sling. (broken collar bone due to a mountain bike crash) I could operate a mouse but couldn’t manage the fluency of pencil work, which must say something about the creativity involved in pencil sketches.
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CO-OPERATIVE BANK CREDIT CARD.
CO-OPERATIVE BANK CREDIT CARD.
A fun set of three posters and press ads commissioned by Dig for Fire to launch a new Co-operative Bank credit card.
These illustrations were completed at high resolution as they were intended to appear on AO posters as well as Co-op in-bank leaflets and press ads.
I had excellent reference of an octopus specially photographed and emailed to me by a friend in Turkey (Hi Baskin).
The toucan is actually montaged and re-illustrated versions of various species of birds I photographed in Australia.
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SIEMENS MOBILE PHONE CAMPAIGN.
SIEMENS MOBILE PHONE CAMPAIGN.
Commissioned for use on their website, adshell campaign and on pack, these delicate translucent poppy petals advertised the new ‘Poppy’ edition of the Siemens CL75 phone marketed at women.
The hearts images tied in as a valentine’s campaign.
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HOTEL LAS VEGAS BOARD GAME
http://www.firebox.com/product/1904?src_t=cat&src;_id=games
HOTEL LAS VEGAS BOARD GAME.
Paste this URL into Google and jump straight to Hotel Las Vegas as sold by Firebox.
http://www.firebox.com/product/1904?src_t=cat&src;_id=games
Complete re-design and all illustration work on the favourite board game Hotel with this brand new Las Vegas edition.
This was commissioned by Optical Design at the end of last year and has still to hit the shelves, probably in time for this christmas.
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Shown here are the game box cover with some close-up details.
Try it when you see a copy, it’s more fun than monopoly!