South African Alphabet

I just realised I hadn’t posted my South African Alphabet on my blog. So here it is – I’m still selling prints at just bigger than A1. If you’d like one, send me an email.

Ice creams for everyone

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.

Tiltshift

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.

Save Our Seas

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.)

Ninja wants cake

Inside Visi

The new Visi is out, which means that ‘my’ issue is off the shelves. It’s the life cycle of a magazine I suppose, but I thought in memory I’d post some photos of the inside spreads which I realised I hadn’t done yet. I stole these photos from Artpropelled where Robyn had a lot of kind words to say about my work.

The Lonely Cash Register

The Food Chain Alphabet

I’ve had the idea to draw a food chain alphabet for a while – so i thought i’d draw it as quickly as possible. Well, not quite as quickly as possible, but pretty darn quickly. I like the result. It gets a bit mad as it goes along.

Ninja chop

Spaceship

I’m doing some more test illustrations for a children’s book – I’ll post more about it soon. In the mean time here’s an astronaut stopping to check the map.