Homage to one's self

Once was a self (portrait)
Originally uploaded by sighclone

Self portrait in marker pens and shredded paper for illustration friday's topic homage

PS: some of the strips are deliberately inverted and reversed... its a dyslexic thing!

IF you are late for your wedding?

For IllustratonFriday's theme weddings

I was thinking about the angry penguins, a group of radical writers in the 40s,in an otherwise very conservative Australia, not weddings or marriage and this cartoon just popped out.

IF through the looking glass... sort of stuff

for illustration friday's topic alphabets, loosely inspired by alice in wonderland meets vegetable soup, and the I ate this trend on mobile phone cameras and flickr

....it is also my first artwork, since i had my broken wrist strapped in a splint!

IF - Visitors

for illustration friday's topic visitors

BTW its a twitter joke

IF dogs were poets?

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch." ... Ogden Nash

Although it late friday here, the new topic isn't posted on illustration friday yet... so I thought i should go for it... always wanted to be last on the list

As all cartoonist will tell you there is something deeply satisfying in just sliding in under that deadline.

IF [Disc-cover-Y]

for illustration friday topic discovery

This was done as a direct scan of the objects, placed flat on my scanner glass... is this a collage or more like photograph?

IF its cool to be geeky?

For Illustration Friday's topic geeky

I am still searching for a new computer generated style in my cartoons... hand drawing and computer colouring, does speed things up... but it is still not WEB 3.0 enough... or is there a better way?

twisted torso

This is a sketch for illustration friday's twisted topic sorry its a bit late!

I had read about anamorphosis some time ago, but an email conversation got me doing some left hand writing and thinking about left handed painting, then painting in a different dimension, so I researched this art form a bit on the net and found this wonderful place Art of Anamorphosis, and their is a gem of a little program inside that can be downloaded for free, called anamorph me, created by Phillip Kent, it let me create a perfectly twisted torso that you can "unfold"...actually you must fold it... and see the "true" torso sketch.



To make the image I fist took a photo of my friend from flickr and trimmed it a bit and ran it through the anamorph me program using first the convert to a greyscale (I only have access to an old black and white laser printer today) and then used the inside a cone anamorph function... printed the result... then cut it out and folded it into a cone...(note have a small tab on one side of the segment makes it easier to stick the cone together)... nothing special yet? I them copied this flat image as a pastel sketch and that is what you see above, print it cut it out and fold it for yourself... it contains a lovely surprise



OK turn the cone over and look inside!

just a bit of fun

"That's quite interesting camouflage"

For Illustration friday's topic camouflage

sketching in paradise

for illustration friday's topic your paradise

if i was a spy in the house of love

I'm a spy in the house of love

for illustraion friday: spy

IF I were a super-hero

I am not really the super hero type, perhaps as a peter pan is more my style... anyway I though about it and I kind of have become a super hero to the real size and just shy ladies, that want to be thought of as more glamorous... many love my illustration... I never really had that planned as a priority, it is just that I do see that they ARE glamous, it's just they don't realize it (or fear it)... so threes cheers for the "real" glamorous ladies!



For illustration friday, topic super hero

IF :: the ashes are safely home

for Illustration Friday's topic "pheonix"

This drawing/painting/cartoon is an attempt to restart my artistic endeavours... ofter an busy and distraction period... i'm determined to get back to the 50 paintings, one drawn it day discipline

The illustration friday topic seems like a perfect way to start

But most this illustration is mostly about cricket,... one of the distractions... and the great battle (much closer than the score line might suggest) for a largely symbolic urn containing some ashes... I don't like like cricket? oh no, I love it...

saggy boobs

saggy boobs
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

a joke doing the rounds in OZ -

"what did one saggy boob say to the other?"

"We need support before they say we are NUTS!"

... couldn't help illustrating it


Revisting this for illustration friday's topic "gravity"