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.

Work n Stuff

I thought rather than actually getting around to scanning and sorting out my latest sketches and stuff I'd make tonight's post about some of my recent professional work.

At the end of last year I was working with the PRA to animate some Promotional Trailers for Blue Tongue/THQ. It was a really fun project to work on, would love if you checked them out-


I think these are the 4th and 5th spots I've done with Deblob 2, but they are the only ones we are allowed to share online. You'll have to buy the game to check out more :)
I also got the chance to team up with Mighty Nice again to help them animate a spot for Artline. It was really great to work on designs done by two of my favourite Australian Illustration entities- Monaux (Karl Kwasny) and We Buy Your Kids. Fun little job.


On a funny little side note, I did an interview with The Design Federation a little while ago. If you're interested you can read it -here-

Mmmm I guess thats it as far as work I'm allowed to share. Hopefully some of the things I have going at the moment wont be too far off sharing. I wont hold my breath though.

Oh, I'll throw this in the mix too :) Part of a present I made for a friend. It ended up having some type on there too. Mr Darcy-
Hope youre well,
love
Alex