Monkey Up

Earlier this year I teamed up with the PRA to design their first Mobile platform game for 2Play Mobile. It was a really quick after hours gig, but was loads of fun. Hope you enjoy!

The final scrolling background, and the original concept I deliverd.

The Character concept.

Some Exploration sketches.

Million Faces.

Hi there blog, This is a part of a really quick, really fun job I did for a client a couple of weeks ago. I was commissioned to pitch a character design template that could be used to populate a game.The first drawing was the template I pitched, and the following drawings are examples of the way the template could be used.

The design wasn't chosen in the end, but it was a nice way to spend a Sunday.

I have a couple of fun things I want to share over the next week or two, so drop by again soon :)

Sketchening

A few months ago I made the decision not to show my sketchbook to anybody. Not even if they asked really nicely. I did this mainly because when it comes to drawing, I have an ego. Its embarrassing to admit but its true. I like to think that I'm ok at drawing, and I like to think that my peers think the so too. If I'm sketching in my sketch book and there's a chance that other people will see all my ridiculous ideas and shitty sketches I tend to get afraid, and draw something I already know how to draw. Thats not what I want from sketching. I know that to get a good idea I have to work through 9 really bad ones. I cant skip the bad ones. They are part of the good one. So I stopped letting people look through my sketchbook. Now I love drawing more than I ever have.

Because you are my friends I want to share a few pages of my sketchbook. Im not saying these are the good ideas I've mentioned. Just ideas I thought were funny or kind of got into. None of them well drawn or executed, but they were fun. Hopefully the well drawn good ideas will surface over the next few months/years.

An idea for a poster I was asked to make.

I love "There Will Be Blood" the "Fuck" is a study from A Type of Show exhibit

I caught a plane the other day

Theres an amazing pie shop near my place in Newtown called Pie Tin. Its good for drawing.

While I was at Dr D I got a lot of drawing time as I waited for shots to come through.

My good buddy Simon Westlake.

In other life news. I finished working on Happy Feet 2 a few weeks ago. Im now working with the super great folks at Mighty Nice. I should be able to release some really fun work I've been doing with them v soon. Stay tuned! Oh and I'm also studying with iAnimate. Which has taken up a lot of my time, it has been a pretty big factor in not posting anything lately.
Hope you're all well
Alex.

Strutten Show. Lino Cut Prints

I mentioned recently that I'd been invited to take part in Strutten Launch Party exhibition.
Now that the show is all wrapped up I thought I'd share the work I sent them, as well as some thoughts on the process. These are Lino Cut prints, hand pressed on German etching paper.

This was my first gallery show (excluding that Smirnoff thing I did in sydney last year, because that was more of a Marketing/commission thing). I've written a long winded explanation, and then deleted it because I think I can summarise my feelings on it all by saying that - it was a mixture of failure and success.

Im not totally stoked on the final designs, the wolf one is the only one that really converted from my concept. The second two lost a lot during the making of them, and even then the concepts weren't that strong. It was fun to get away from the computer though, and get some ink and blood on my hands. It was also pretty fun seeing if I could make Lino Cutting look fresh and get away from that usual aesthetic.

Congrats to the crew at strutten, who managed to pack 300 kids into the gallery. Keep an eye on them! They are super good at what they do.

Oh Ye Denver Birds Posters

Hi guys,
I've been working with some new clients a bit lately. They go by the name -"Golden District". A tidy little artist management company comprised of Maggie Collins and Alex Iveson. I will be posting a bunch of branding, illustration and design stuff Ive been doing with them over the next month or two, but in the mean time these are a few posters I've made for one of their bands- Oh Ye Denver Birds.

Poster inspired by a photo I took in paris last year. The headless saint Dennis over looks the entrance to the Notre Dame.
A Text based poster for a halloween party they are throwing.
This was another quick concept I did while I waited for feedback.

And some nekid ladies from life drawing. The first row are 5 minute ink gestures, the second row are 15-20 minute poses.

Hope you're all well,
Love
A.

Maybe Later Mum

Rocket boots would be the shit!

vanity.!.

Heya blog,
so ive known you for a while, and it occurred to me that Ive never shown you my face. i think its time to take it to the next level...Just a stupid pic for another site.


Annnnnd something with crazily cliche' subject matter, but hopefully not too boring. Havent really done serious cell shading for a while. i like the limitations. *(slightly updated image based on some ideas offered over at SatelliteSoda.com)
Love Alex