Recent pieces of illustrations

Re-birth

This design was inspired by a tattoo artist "steve byrde". now that the copyright problems are out of the qestion il tell you a little bit about this design, butterflys have always been a big symbol in peoples lives let alone tattoo ideas because of there life cycle from cacoon to butterfly and everything in between. manny of its meanings mean "re-birth" "strength" and the abbility to adappt. My reason for creating this design was because of the bright coulors that drew me to it in the first place but of course its me doing this so ive but my own fling on it :P Anyway let me know what you think about this design either on here or facebook, PEACE!

Meet the twins!

This has been a piece that ive wanted to do for a while but i never knew how i was going to do it. Ive always had an intrest for the way that twins think alike and act alike, and maybe they could be able to mind read each other, so i decided to create this grousome piece of two twins that have had there spirits trapped inside a shroom so they can be together forever.

Im very happy with the way the piece has turned out especially the background giving it that "pop" that a painting needs to stand out.

I may be doing a print version of this painting very soon with alot of photoshop editing! But anyway thats all ive got for this week, keep checking the blog for new updates and paintings! PEACE!

Landscapes and Tentcles.

Recently ive been working on a landscape piece, which is a bit differnt to what i normaly do but painting landscapes helps me build up detail and not having to rely on the quil so much for creating shading and shape. This means that doing one or two of these every week helps me with my more mainstream stuff like painting shrooms! Anyway heres a look at the landscape all finished.
I call it Planet Vs Vortex.

My facination with weird and abnormal creatures has only got worse as time has gone on, and the next piece i have to show you is no exception.

This painting is called tentecles and the first thing you think of is its an octopus, but in reality its not instead its just a bunch of tentecles with an eye in the centre. So if anything this is my first attempt at a paintoing with an optical illusion, not a massive one but still and optical illusion non the least. which is great because it just gave this piece some weird points. The coulors are another thing im proud of mixing a very bright pink with greens and blues can be very hard but it gives this piece the contrast it needs to makes the tentcles pop out!

Thats everything for this time but im working on a new painting that of course has a shroom in it but also a snail.... until next time PEACE!

Jelly!

Recently ive been working on paper instead of anything i can grab my hands on to bring out the coulor in my work much more. This i think has worked, also im going to be focusing on using photoshop with my work more so i can get even more high quality prints. But heres what ive been working on lately.

This piece i have edited in photoshop and ive got to admit i love the way its turned out and will be doing more work like this in the future.

If your intrested in the way i edit my work i will be doing a time lapsed video of me working on a piece in photoshop prety soon.

But for now keep it cool and keep checking my blog!

PEACE!

New year!

So its the new year, and whats new? terrible joke im sorry. Well recently what has been new is im starting to explore more with paint and serveral techniques such as how to make fairly realistic clouds, like this.

also as youve noticed ive started playing around with drips again, i really think they add a sence of experimentation to your work as well as a really cool effect. For insperation on this look at http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=650&q=alex+pardee&gbv=2&oq=alex+par&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=713l2192l0l3342l8l7l0l1l1l0l162l778l0.6l6l0

sorry the links abit broken up there should still work though.

Another thing ive been doing is trying to work my shroom fetish into a differnt image and this is what i came up with last night, hopefully im on the right track.

This is watercolour and paint, usuing the two together gives you some really nice vibrant coulors.

Anyway thats all until i fully nail these ideas in my head, PEACE!