maths and science

Brave it through the night shirt design

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:14:00 +0000

My good friend Dean, the creator of Brave it thought the night, has the voice of a silken haired maiden and the body of a russian bear wrestler. I made a shirt design for him recently and I'm happy with the way it came out, clean and serene. It's a nice chance to draw something less grisly than usual. Flex those muscles.

Go check them out. It will make you feel better.

LOOK AT ALL THIS DUST.

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:45:00 +0000

Man, I'm doing that thing that I didn't want to do. Never put anything up here.

Some things in the pipes, some things leaving the pipes. Wanted to give the old blog a bit of a lift so I made a new type for it.

Click it and go have a look bigger. Which one is the winner?

New and old

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:18:00 +0000

Ahhh, predictability.

Angry drawing is always a good idea.

Fat Guy

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:45:00 +0000

Haven't posted for a while, so I thought I'd bam up a horrible birthday card. It started as a monster, then it was a fat guy. Ok. All wacom in photoshop.

The inside of the card read "Yeah, I don't know either"

Guardian

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:25:00 +0000

Finished a big painting recently so I thought I'd chuck up the process.

Initial sketch

Each bit was painted with a separate piece of wood. Mostly motley old ply.

Built up layers of a mixture of watered down acrylic, sepia ink and some weird shimmery ink I once used for a unicorn (painting).

Cut each piece out with a jigsaw

Arranged and rearranged

Then screwed it all together

Finished.

Then on the wall at the opening

Fetish

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Been a bit sick lately with some rad mystery illness, so been a bit slow on the art front. Decided cleaning my shed would be good a good therapeutic activity and started to gather all my markers together. I do love markers. Would love to see a few other peoples collections.

Deliverance We Prey

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:27:00 +0000

Up and coming metal act Deliverance We Prey approached me a little while ago to do some merch design for them. They had a rough design and an concept and basically just let me run with it.

Super early concept. Guy getting choked with a big old rope.

Ditched the guy in the back and went for a 'zombie on a leash' sort of thing.

Decided to zoom right in and focus on detail. Shading was chosen with a two colour print in mind. Using a sweet toy skull I had as a reference I made up a filthy zombie man. I also learned how to tie a noose. The internet is awesome.

Added filth goo from the mouth. I redid the goo though after my wise drawing cohort Ahab suggested more movement was needed.

Detailed the FUCK out of the rope.

That's too many vectors.

Colour variant mockups. Pink. Winner.

Not really. The old fave red won out. Click for bigness.

I'll post a pic when I get the shirt.

Cards

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:19:00 +0000

Not sure why, but I really like making birthday cards. I usually leave them to the last possible second, but there's something kind of fun about that.

Here's a drawing I did not long ago. Tried to keep it simple cartoony style.

Pencil

Coloured.

I don't draw girls. I should try to do more.

The Departed

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:44:00 +0000

My good friend Adam B Metal has been cranking away on his solo project 'The Departed' for a while now and pretty much every step of the way I have been making art for it.

Recently we made a shirt together for his first couple of gigs and I was pretty happy with the way it came out.

Here's a few pics of the process.

This was a photo of Adam's dog. I redrew it in Illustrator and added a heart in his mouth.

More detail, highlights.

First idea for layout. Added some blood too. Text was hand done with sloppy paint and a syringe. The design was too open, so it got the arse.

Adam was keen on the design being framed, so I drew in some antique looking floral action. Text got vectored.

Redrew and detailed the frame.

This is the final, added some grey to give it a bit more depth, and knocked it back to 3 colours for print.

Heres a photo of it all printed (on my dog, for no reason)! Done by the excellent AND printing of Melbourne.

The Departed will be featured in the upcoming action mmo APB and has free shit over on Bandcamp. Go get it. It's really good.

Skull duggering

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:42:00 +0000

I got a Wacom tablet not long ago and I've been slowly adapting to it. To get more accustomed to the way it works I have been using photos as reference, and trying to boil them down essentials with the Wacom.

Heres a skull I did.

And a wallpaper version in 4D (just like 3d, except it doesn't work) if you're so inclined.

Can make some custom wallpaper sizes if people want em.

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Shark Week

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:14:00 +0000

So recently I went through a shark phase. All I wanted to draw was sharks. I dont know that's its over. I just need a good reason to do one up real nice. Here's some sketches.

You gotta start somewhere

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:20:00 +0000

Whelp, here it is. Maths and Science. A spot for me to chuck work and links to things I like. Let's start off slow.

A combo of sorts.

I recently found this great tute over on Vectips on making Grimy Text with a Pen Tablet. So here's what I made.

Big version here.

Told you we were starting off slow.

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