The good folk at Tank asked me to do up a few tanks for the launch of their new web skins. So I did a whole bunch of non-violent tanky drawings. Here’s one.
In case you don’t know what Tank is – it’s a free online website builder. It’s really simple to use and it’s customizable, but without being confusing. I built my website using it.
I have an idea for my second children’s book already – though I do need to mull it over for a while and then forget about it completely and then read it again and see if it’s still any good (that’s the usual process). Here’s a potential character nonetheless.
I finished my first children’s book a little while ago and have been fortunate enough to aquire the services of an agent. Hopefully you’ll be seeing The Boy Who Cried Ninja on bookshelves soon. Below is a DPS from the book.
This is the winning photo from The Western Nostril’s Osteus Look-alike Competition. We think it’s terrific. Visit The Western Nostril to see more entries and to read up a little about the winner.
Here’s a black Jesus I did for a church poster – it’s advertising an evening seminar about race in South Africa today.
Sometimes you draw a dog and it turns out just right.
I just realised I hadn’t posted my South African Alphabet on my blog. So here it is – I’m still selling limited edition (50) art prints at just bigger than A1. If you’d like one, send me an email.
It’s a bright 22 degrees on the South Peninsula of Cape Town today. The low winter sun skimming the peaks of the mountain across from me is actually so bright in my office that I’m wearing sun block on my right arm.
Ice creams for everyone before the next cold front hits.
My brother Patrick and I went up to the Boomslang Caves above Kalk Bay last weekend. The caves are awesome – about 100m of twisty, bat-lined darknness with an exit that you have to bellycrawl out of. On the way down we saw this view of Kalk Bay harbour and thought we’d try some tiltshift photography – which is simply a Photoshop technique to make things look like miniatures. (Unfortunately we only had a dodgy old digital camera with us so the quality wasn’t great, but you get the idea.) For a step by step guide on how to do your own click here.
A friend in advertising called me and asked whether I’d be keen to do a bit of work on a very cool campaign for Save Our Seas. Basically I was assigned to write a letter in the voice of a squid named Sarah. I tried to keep it quite inky and also a bit distressed – it turned out well I think. This letter, and a few others like it, were stuffed into bottles and left on Muizenberg beach (in a totally non-littering kind of way). Then unsuspecting passers-by picked up the bottles and could read a message from a sea creature in need of help.
So here’s my letter. (It was very flattering to be commissioned to do this along with some very talented illustrators – take a look over here to see all 5 letters as well as to find out how to save our seas.)
