In Which The Easter Bunny Discovers That Eggs Are Not Always The Bringer Of New Life.

A friend and I have a tradition of making little stories for Easter each year... this year we decided to step it up a notch both in writing and illustration, and so we created a multi-part noir graphic novel. Here's page one.

Baby's First Book Illustrations

I wrote a picture book for my nephew as a birthday present/thoughtful keepsake/bribe for 'favourite uncle'/keep myself from getting into hard drugs project. I ended up working entirely digitally, it turned out pretty well.

The Alchemist

I guess this counts as a book illustration. I recently read The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo, and that's vaguely what I was thinking of when I did this. Really, I was just too lazy to do a proper illustration and just wanted to throw some (virtual) paint around for a few minutes...

But I quite like the colors and although fuziness is a cop out to avoid actually trying, I do like some of the results. This is sort of a bunch of desert people coming out of the hot haze. Gotta love haze.

A Pale View of Hills

This book is by a Japanese author and I wanted to at least slightly reflect an Asian feel in the illustration (hopefully). The tree is really a cop out on my part, as I just didn't manage to achieve the look I wanted and would have liked a tree with much more detail and one that curled around in a beautiful shape... but it wasn't to be I guess.

The Road

Back to the book illustrations finally. Here's one for The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Not sure if I would recommend the book! It is all about the atmosphere really, so I wanted to do something very moody and tried to capture the bleak emptiness of everything.

Also, that's easier than doing anything definite that can be critiqued!

NOTE : this one looks a lot better in the bigger view.

Brave New World

I thought I might do some illustrations inspired by books that I am reading... makes it easy to think of an idea!

Not necessarily of a particular scene or theme, i'm using it VERY liberally, it's really just a starting point for me to think of something, anything.

Here's Brave New World.