FACEPOCALYPSE

A psychopomp guides newly deceased souls to the afterlife, and is the subject of my first (and largest) contribution to the Mythology exhibition.

I’ve decided to give oil painting a crack, and just spent the night painting with Richard Healy, who’s provided some useful input on the process of oil painting. He’s pretty great with the oils.

Anyway, here’s what I’ve been working on today. It’s something big like 48″x48″, and still a work-in-progress, but thus far I’m quite proud of my second ever oil painting! My first was a 6″x8″ picture of an apple. I think I was 9 years old at the time.

The other night I got my portfolio submission into The Art Department, a new practical course offering the top tier of arts education in the digital realm.

There’s a new page up if you’d like to see what I submitted. It’s mostly things on my portfolio website, plus a bunch of drawings.

Anyway… If accepted I’ll be out of here come June. I’m a little daunted by living costs in San Fran though. My budget thus far contains scary numbers. ha :S

Global Game Jam is an annual event where game developers of all walks (hobbyists, professionals, students etc) meet and form teams to make a game over one weekend. There’s a theme which is revealed via the interwebs on Friday evening, this year it was ‘Deception’.

Last year I ground my hands to a pulp producing ~30hrs worth of art, which equated to not much sleep! This year I cut my participation back to about 16hrs (and went to the Big Day Out).

My main focus this year was a game we titled Bored Room. You can download the game install here and play it yourself! It has some very amusing dialogue.

I only had Saturday to make all the art, so kept it simple; but charming! Here are the characters:

And a room! Complete with a hulking security guy.

Jack mentioned my Florence Welch portrait reminded him of the infamous All Your Base image, so I thought I’d do a tribute sketch. For great justice.

In other news, I got back from Melbourne on Monday. Read the rest of this entry →

I noticed Nick’s done a retrospective. I thought I would, too, for the sake of having some sort of compiled record.

Career – Concept artist to freelance graphic designer/artist:

I quit Interzone Games in March, after over 2 years there as a concept artist (with graphic design side duties), having worked on Interzone Futebol since its infancy. The only person left from the original ~14 working there when I was hired was Jack. At its peak Interzone was employing 100+ people over 4 locations. Perth was the main development studio. I don’t know if I’ll ever find a working environment that rivals the atmosphere of Interzone at its prime. It was such a great place to work.

Group photo from Fully Formal Friday. Read the rest of this entry →

The Summer exhibition opening is tomorrow (Tuesday)!!

I’m ready! Today I printed, guillotined, or otherwise sliced the artwork tags and signage bits and pieces for tomorrow.

Tomorrow that arrow will point to the exhibition info-card, so come along and receive your free info-card because as the text suggests; it was made specifically for you.

Not that guy, just you. That other guy’s got his mits all over the shop. You, on the other hand… Well, I quite like you.

I did an interview with the Forks Open Doors duo for Xpress this week, you can view it online here. I’m not very eloquent in this interview, possibly due to post-lunch-eating-drowsiness. It’s a pretty great writeup, though – Emma’s writing skills are good. And stuff. How’s that for eloquent?

Anyway, the Summer exhibition draws near! It opens this Tuesday!! Get down to Little Creatures with your art-evaluation beret for a mildly festive drink or two.

I’m just about to head to the Guerilla Laneway exhibition and put up my artworks.

If you’re reading this in the future, having seen my work and bludgeoned ‘facepocalypse.com’ into your keyboard, then welcome to my blog!

This is where I draw, paint, post about my upcoming exhibitions, show some freelance work and talk about various unrelated things like the angry bobtail in my backyard.  A link to my actual portfolio can be found in the sidebar. Or, you know, where I typed ‘actual portfolio’.

Plus if you feel so inclined you can show me love and +1 facebook fan that action.

There were some minor trials with the ‘t’ for this logo so I ended up redoing it with an unmistakable ‘t’.

Here’s the final version:

And the heavily debated version (across 3 posts):

Now… Read on for an insight into development. Beware: lengthy post.

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12″ x 18″ prints of my artwork on metallic photostock + laminate are available in time for Xmas. All are hand-signed.

The full promo including available prints is here (as one big image!). Yea, a bit clunky I know – you’ll need to order via email – but proceeds will go to me making more art! That’s what I do. I don’t yet have someone to organise the monetary/business side of things so bear with me.

What I do value is quality, and these prints are of awesome quality and durability. What a perfect gift!

Also, I can make any of my Facepocalypse sketches into prints should anyone so desire. Same dealio as the Apple Cider Tea Party series.

I’ll put the bulk of orders through on Monday 14th. If you miss the Monday deadline still shoot me an email and I’ll see if it’s feasible to get extras done by Xmas.