Full set of Australian Bush Babies coins on eBay

Just a quick post to shamelessly plug my auction. I finally got a hold of a complete set of Bush Babies and now have a complete, signed set up for auction on ebay.

Anatomy studies and master study

As part of an activity on conceptart.org I've started a 'master study' of sorts. I've basically taken a picture I liked and have studied it's colour and composition and am now trying to recreate it in oils. The original picture is called Springtime by Pierre-August Cot . Below are some progress shots including evidence of my tea drinking addiction.

Mark, Ed and I went to the Amazing Bodies exhibition, hoping to closely study human muscles. Unfortunately the exhibition only had whole plasticised animals (no people) so I studied a skeleton and a horse.

and finally some general anatomy study:

Bush Babies Released: Australian Kangaroo

How exciting, I just read that in June The Perth Mint will be releasing the first coin in the Bush Babies series. The series was designed by yours truly, but not without the feedback and support of the some other great people at the Mint of course! Talisman coins has done a much longer write up on the series here although I would like to correct that I was previously located in Perth and have now relocated to Melbourne.

Below is the the first coin to be released, a red kangaroo joey. There will be a total of five coins in the series and a box is available in which to display them all. You can get some idea of what the other designs will be like from the packaging images available here.

These were a lot of fun to illustrate. I love digital illustration and animals so it was a really enjoyable project for me. I hope people enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Big update incomming...

Wow I haven't updated for what.. a month? Geez where does the time go? I've been in Melbourne for almost 6 months now.. what is going on!?

Anyway I mostly blame my PC which I have been trying to fix (to no avail yet) and due to repeated formats I have been reluctant and too lazy to continually install the drivers for my scanner and tablet. Anyway I decided to do it last night because I have a few days off work which is ample time to tackle the growing pile of artwork that needs scanning. So the next few posts should catch up to where I'm at now.

Sorry for the lack of responses to comments too, that I can't really make an excuse for but I will be replying soon.. I appreciate the feedback.. so thanks guys :)

Zoo gesturals and other random stuff

I went to the Zoo with a friend to draw animals. I've never tried to draw subjects that were moving around before, I couldn't believe how challenging it was! Anyway we managed to get really good seats near Tricia (the elephant) who wasn't moving too fast. I'm pretty happy with these! After having so much trouble with the other animals I didn't know if I couldn't product something that looked half decent.

..aand a couple of other random sketches thrown in here.