I’ve updated Mutants at The Mall to include the new style and a couple of new features, like interviews with the various characters, a diagram showing how they relate to each other, and a few other little things.
See what you think – I would be interested to hear whether you prefer the new style or the old hyperreal version.
My client needed some whiteboard-friendly designs. So, from the rough samples supplied, I made these as .png and .ai (Illustrator) versions. They resemble our previous stick-figure images, with a dash of style! Specifically, the Chinese style combines with the Tinted Strokes style. Also, the colour washes add some extra pizzazz. Click on the title to see more examples from this project.
Caricatures tend to pop up frequently in my work, especially in the last few years. I like to include bits and pieces from the person’s work and hobbies. This is a caricature of Ferdi Keller, a guest house owner in Seapoint, who happens also to be a retired German football star.
The Little Wingsters is a TV series in the making, being shopped around to agents and producers in Canada and LA. The series honours the tiny members of the angelic realm who deliver information, joy and comfort to the human race.
They may occasionally borrow items to wake people up to the beauty of lost things. But if asked nicely, they help in the recovery of such items. This is especially so, once the ‘victim’ has also found other lost things. These things they often needed even more…
Pictures of the Winged Ones and their loot will soon adorn clothing, bed-linen, mugs, badges and a colouring book. All of these are moving from ether to brain to production at a steady pace. So far, the calendar will have to be a quarterly one. That’s because the monthly version must wait till 12 staff members have been hatched, then paused long enough for a mug-shot. They move quite a bit faster than bantam chickens.
Here’s a pic of my booth at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September 2017. You can see who my favourites are! (Shhh)
Below is the pic from the festival for 2018. Little Wingsters are still taking up more real estate! But actually, there is a bit of planning here. This banner will be part of our display wherever we sell merchandise. One has to think ahead.)
So – more news on that here, and soon. An online shop is in progress too, of course.
Meanwhile, I’m adapting the first book from the pilot episode of the series, which stars Coco, the little healer whose gifts are love and joy. After that is done, there will be three other books, each with a story starring one of the angels. And seeing I’m getting back in gear here with updates, you will see it here first.
Do visit our Facebook page as well, and join us there if you like – would love to see you. See more on the Little Wingsters on this website by clicking on the first image. Too lazy? Oh alright – click here, then.
This illustration was for an opera singer residing in Germany. He is going to use it as a promotional device throughout the year, adding different elements for each occasion or theme. I think it’s a brilliant idea and imagine his clients will enjoy receiving these postcards.
Working from different photos and my imagination, we constructed a more smiley expression and ended up with a good likeness. The main thing of course with a portrait is always that the client likes it and this portrait was a success as far as that was concerned.
Although portraits are something I’ve done since boarding school, it’s always scarey until the final moment. Another very on-the-edge thing I’ve done was a three-hour-long stint as a pencil caricaturist at a launch for Fair Lady some years ago. That went off rather well too… in a sense I miss the excitement of that.
Mmmm. Blog turns into meditation turns into insight and – Action.
Have pencils, will advertise. Meanwhile, if you need a portrait of yourself or a loved one, or even a caricature, do contact me.
There was a new job involving the supervision of schools from my client for a certain African country north of here; but the budget was smaller than usual. So she came up with the novel idea of doing stick figures and because she was laughing, I thought she was joking.
It worked quite well and her clients were very happy because even stick-people can convey a concept, emotions, frustrating situations… Some of the frustrating situations appear in the first three pics – the disruption of a schoolday by lots of cars full of officials arriving, with everyone rushing to ‘make nice’; the intrusion into schooltime by socialising with the officials while the children do no learning; the distraction during classes by the Visitors.
Other images show the various types of schools found there, and though some are humbler than others, all can be well-run.
Hope you enjoy the show!