Kate (LoungeKat) has been busy being an editor on Vectortuts and I’ve been teaching and working on development for a large project.

Here is one of the first full McKelly pieces ‘Obsolescence’

For updates you can follow us on Twitter at mckellyworkshop

We have also just set up a Behance page

I have been following the Australian election with a growing sense of dismay at the short term thinking of all the major parties.. what is dismaying me even more is how the leader of the Liberals Tony Abbot formerly known as the Mad Monk has re-made himself to seem stable, its crazy - hes crazy, a mysoginst, fanatic Catholic, ugh, the thought of having him as leader gives me chills.

Check out this Get Up campaign ad and remind yourself what an utter bastard he is..

Its funny how life gets in the way, then suddenly you look around and 5 months have just slipped by.
I’ve been busy teaching, playing Tai Ji, LoungeKat and I have been adjusting to her new found freedom from the 9 to 5 grind (make that 8 - 5:30!), and planning the new entity that is McKelly.

Heres’ a new McKelly flavoured piece..

I was working on a pitch for a Fu Bears game, there are quite a few previous posts with designs and animation from its’ development. That whole project went pear shaped and had to be abandoned.. goodbye 6 month of development.
As such I haven’t had that much to post about, my inspiration to rant has even abandoned me: the world is going to hell (or is already there) and our systems are so big, complex and uncontrollable that nothing can be done.
Oh well, I use Tai Ji: relax and let it go.

LoungeKat and I are developing a collaborative project called McKelly, we are focusing on what got us excited about image making in the first place, here is a piece we developed together..

There will be a few changes at bucketothought.com soon, I’m doing away with the complex site and the large shopping cart system.. back to basics.

How quickly the year goes, the hordes mass at the shopping outlets for their last minute festive buying spree. It always blows me away how many people leave it to the last minute and endure the crazy time.
I did mine early and I’m hoping that I can convince my family to do away with the consumer crap and just enjoy the time together.. we will see.

I’ve been working on a few things, one being a further development of the Fu Bears concept. To make the idea more appealing we decided that one of the characters needed a sex change, and so I give you EJi as a girl, still the same knife throwing, gambling gray zone character, just in female form..

Click on the image below for a desktop sized version:

Here is a new Photoshop painting I put together for the Fu Bears promo stuffs I’m working on at the moment..

This year No Vacancy is presenting the QV Christmas Art Market, come down and find something different from the generic crap that everyone else is getting each other this silly season!

LoungeKat and I will be selling prints, playing cards, jewelry, iPhone skins and a bunch of other exciting stuffs. This time around we will be sharing our stall with the very talented Itch, Mothra and Claudio Mantuano.

Heres the full list of market holders and the event details..

• Jeremy Ley
• We Make Stuff Good
• Cat-Rabbit
• Betty+Hamish
• Black Panda Designs
• Wah Wah Wears
• Nicholas Jones
• Marcos Davidson Jewellery
• James Widdowson Monocles
• Karla Way
• Natalia M.P
• We Heart Books
• Nicole Tattersalland Kate Brownlees
• First Morning Textiles
• McKelly and Friends
• CSerpent
• Rosa Maria Gonzaga
• Jasmin Bardel
• ADiArt
• Eveline Tarunadjaja

Melbourne
No Vacancy Gallery Christmas Art Market
QV Square, QV Building, Melbourne
When: Friday 4 - Sunday 6 December from 10am - 6pm (Friday 4th open till 9pm)
Website: www.no-vacancy.com.au
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154828833801&index=1

Click on the pic below to go to the flickr page.

Click the images for a larger view..