projections of the way life used to be part 4

mood ring concept

boy oh boy it's been a busy couple of days
around here..but anyways
heres a poster i did for sam feilder
i have done a poster for him before
for the new prophet..i think the deal
is he is going for funding and is looking
for posters to put as part of the package..
anyways the brief was biker girls and trippy-ness
i believe this fits the bill

very early ernest ellis concept

so this is my first gig with dew process
which i am super excited about..they are the
label who gives us sarah blasko, the panics and
whitley ...anyways my concept is for this hunted
warhorse to be bleeding ink spots that have imposed
on the images of foggy locales full of hunters..
i hope it will be one long massive artwork..
the concept is a mixture of me and the lead singer
and dew's marketing team..the album is called the hunted
so they are eagre to have someone hunted..

projections of the way life used to be part 3

this is the first concept i came up with
although back then i had it more 9/11 but
i thought i would settle the fuck down and
make it more like moths to the flame than
my little end of the world visions



i've been wanting to pop this candle hat on something
for a while..maybe next time i will construct a chandelier
hat..

frenchmex

Every once in a while i come up with a
concept i get really really excited about
this frenchmex-ing was one of them..for me
its like the beautiful child of two great
loves..french excess and the mexican day
of the dead...so the story is that the EP
for
boy and bear which has the lighthouses is
shelved until next year to be used on their
yet to be finished EP ..this however is for
their single..mexican mavis...

boy i do hope they share the joy

projections of the way life used to be part 2 round 1 ...fight!!!

oh the utter joy of drawing a
mismatched cock fight

projections of the way life used to be part 2

steeped in stoop part 2

as the band has decided on a digipack
cd packaging then further art artworks
where needed for the inlay,under tray and
cd itself..

projections of the way life used to be

this archer and ice cream truck is an idea i've
for ages..mainly i daydreamed it when i was thinking
about what kind of dlc video i would make if i
had a budget..and this image is how it would open..



this was one of the first images i thumbnailed
and even though it went through a few different
versions i kept coming back to this image of a
priest with a gun..i wanted a camera man there
too but the town folk would not have that kind
of technology..better to mae it more conquistador
type



this is the first image for the background
projections to be played at dead letter
chorus epic august magnificent show..it will
be a huge night with strings and choirs..

i like it a little rough

this is a rough concept sketch for an idea
i had for FRENCH MEX ..which is a crossing of
marie antoinette style french excess and mexican
day of the dead...it came about after boy and bear
manager asked if i could do a cover for their ,just
about to be released single Mexican mavis.

so i thought a hybrid of frida and telouis would be fun
anyway this is a rough sketch i drew on the bus of what it
might look like

you gotta keep em renovated

this idea came from me unable to doodle
something else..which was an arm coming out
of a leg..i was on the way to dims when i
had a rush of ideas ..four or five..i love
these moments..and when taz said this was
a farewell show the bird flying the coop
seemed to fight like a glove

steeped in stoop

second draft
these are the revisions after serge and the boys
had a look and made a few slight suggestions..







the back cover first draft

FIRST DRAFT
so with most things..this started simple..me being
a bit too into xrays of animals..suddenly as i kept
going it seemed to make sense to add a victorian age
town and have jellyfish smoke...will sending this
off post haste to serge to see what he thinks..
this will be used for both an EP art work and gig
poster if given the thumbs up

now in wonderful 3d

so in a week which saw me watch all three
back to the futures and coraline in 3d im
pretty into the whole 3d thing..more so
the old school 3d glasses..anyway this idea
started as just a man in a powdered wig with a
ship in his hair and some glasses then evolved
into this larger than life nod to old 3d picture
books..anyways i hope they like it..cause , fuck it,
i do!!
space has been left for the dates to come in a month
or so's time

a circus of chorus'

as with most things this poster started out as
something completely different and that idea
evolved into something else and then that became
this and it looks nothing like the original idea
which i might post along with this...

tell me what you see...series one

lately i have been really into making these
ink blot tests of of animal bones , so when i
was asked by the booking agent at oxford arts
to do a poster for a night called natural selection
well, the two seemed the perfect marriage
also is signage..

hi bill..hi fred...just another days work in space

It seems i have a bit of a thing about
antiquating space these days..anyways i was
thinking about this looney tunes cartoon where the
rivals clock in and out at the end of each day of
tit et tating..then when doodling i thought about the
space race..anyways heres the result and serge from stoop
seems happy enough with it for me to do his EP..yay

back from the dead

so the clip is going viral supposedly ...
its been up on my site for a few days and has
gotten some really nice reaction



so i was asked this morning by sony to re-edit the old kate
miller heidke clip for mama into her latest chart topping
song last day on earth..if this works this could be a giant
boost for me..its already ear marked for video hits this
weekend

ps.jack carty concept

this is an early concept for the cd art
as a pps i sent the concepts through to
him and he flipped so i hope these ideas
are close to being the actual art


also there is this colour concept..i like this for it dynamic
splashes of colour but maybe i prefer the sepia toned one because
it looks like a weird silent film

jack carty concepts

so as i was on the interweb the other day
i decided to check my myspace..something i
don't do as often as i once did..there i
found a week old message from jack carty
asking me if i might wanna do album art for
him ..he had seen my emma davis and leroy lee
stuff and liked it ...so i emailed back and
waiting nervously to see if the offer was
still there..in the meantime i worked up
these concepts that had struck me while
buying a chicken ceaser wrap for lunch
anyways..fingers crossed he likes them

front cover

back cover

the boy and bear ep continued

after the band requested something
more old world and wearing an animal mask
the astronaut was replaced by this native indian
wolf character..fingers crossed that it passes muster

groupie magazine

http://www.pagesonline.it/groupie033/holder.html

above is a link to the online edition of groupie
magazine where my audreys entry is displayed as a
finalist...yay

the boy and bear ep

UPDATE
on a whole the band liked it but has asked for the
astronaut to be replaced with something more from
the old world..which is not a problem for me

first draft
ok so this is the most nerve racking time
when you sent it off to the band and you
have no idea what their response will be..
fingers crossed





disc art
i wanted to keep this fairly simple and
have the lighthouses kinda make a clock
face


stages 4
the astronaut had to be like an old 70's
style astronaut ..mainly cause i liked the
orange jumpsuit..the issue with this has been
my war between wanting it to be detailed but
not having it a mess when shrunk down..the
removal of the canvas texture helped with this..
as a side note i really wanted him to look like
ernest hemingway or atleast how pappa would have
seen him self as the old man



stage 3-lighthouse island
finding the right way to do the island was tricky
at first i wanted a manhattan island sized island
full of lighthouses..an idea i might keep to one side
for further boy and bear material ..in the end a rottness
island sized island was the best option..it seemed to hold
more of a mysterious island quality to it



the lighthouse
the lighthouse took a while to create..to have
one lighthouse that can look like a town full
of lighthouses with out it looking like i just
cut and paste was a hard balance to find


stage 2- background texture
as done before in their poster i wanted
the weathered and textured backgrounds of
my boy and bear stuff to be a link from
project to project..my aim is to have it
look like an old movie being projected onto
old tattered wallpaper


stage one-the concept
the idea of a an island filled with nothing
but lighthouses has been in my head for a
while..it wasnt executed earlier because i
had it on hold for a childrens book but after
reworking that i decided to attach it to this
project mainly due to the fact i wanted something
bold an unseen before to be placed behind the
lost at sea astronaut .

going to the chapel.....

heres the logo for the name cards
at my mums wedding and a mock up