dragonette

Sjoe! What the hell happened to 2015?

Oh yes, this happened~

That's right, I'm a dad! And little did I know it then (I drew the sketch when she was only a couple weeks old) but this truly reflects her character… soooo adorable. But she bites. Hard.

And above is the sketch which all led to this… as these things do. 

I'll gladly send you a high res version of the Baby on Board design for your own little dragonette, just post a reply here and we'll make it happen :3

bugs are badass

Here's a little morsel from an upcoming project to make your mouth water...

space...

In space, it sounds like this 

"….."

panda love

Who doesn't love pandas? Nobody, that's who!
Made this little ditty for the lovely folks at Watercolour Wednesdays for the March banner for that blog.

festive dassie

Happy Holidays everybody!

What the?!

Here's a fun one I did recently for Heinemann, one of our local publishers of educational books. The brief was simple, "illustration of a friendly alien-type monster..."

I think I was craving jelly/o...

TB fighters

I regularly get to work with an NGO on a publication called Equal Treatment a magazine dedicated to covering health and HIV matters.

It's good to do something that actually benefits people and not just a pretty picture... know what I'm sayin...?

lil’ li-boons… (boundaries)

Some boundaries should be respected….

Still… aren’t they cute :)

disguised

"what lion?”

Design 4 Development interview

I’ve had the pleasure of working with D4D for a number of years now, doing things to uplift and better inform the community. 

This strip about HIV antiretrovirals is one of the latest cartoons I’ve created for them, each one being more fun to create than the last! 

Recently, I was featured on their blog; check it out here, you might even see something you haven’t seen before :)

Remedy this!

A while back we, my good pal and co-loon Maloney and I, created a spin off cartoon strip from our Opera Savannah greeting cards...
It dealt with the day-to-day rituals of a quirky meerkat family and some other beasties from the neighbouring veld.

Meet Albert. That reclusive uncle, the ever vigilant scientist, always ravenous for knowledge; you know the one, every family has one of those!

Warning

Couple years back, I was tasked to adapt an anti-poaching poster for a kids publication…

beastly birthdays

As the year gains momentum and time becomes more and more monopolised, it's great to find excuses to string a few stray minutes together to draw little things for the people I care about.

The girls posed for me recently as subjects for some birthday cards: Una (basset hound), Zoe (pug) and our little Peanut...

reverse

I most probably had the idea for these guys after reading Alan Moore's: Top 10 series, if you've read it you know what I'm talking about…

These will feature in a 4 page comic short which I'll unveil soon :)

alien prospector - "Dusty"

Another day, another alien…

This slimy little guy is off to work. Out there on the farthest reaches of the final frontier, where things with bones dare not go!
What is he looking for, you ask?
Space Dust? maybe.

Chicken-pug!

Like Magritte said:
"This is not a pug dressed like a chicken…"

sneaky sneaky shark-zilla

Couldn't resist using this one again…

I wish everything was this fun to draw :)

Jerry pin-up

I couldn't not do it (it's 3 in the morning and I'll use a double negative if I want to), the theme this week on illustration friday is 'old-fashioned'...

So I blew the dust off an old sketch and slapped some colour to it and presto! Instant Jerry pin-up and I don't have to tell you how old-fashioned he is...

One day I'll get around to telling his story but right now... bed.

leopard styles

Not too long ago, I was asked to do some sample illustrations for a children's book...

It's been a while now and I haven't heard from the editor so I think it's safe to show you these, enjoy :)

As usual, it's a mix of watercolour and digital layering.

the chameleon and the fly...

This week's theme on illustration friday is "acrobat" and I'd been wanting to draw a chameleon again for some time.



So here's my take on that eternal struggle between chameleon and fly... but which is the more acrobatic?

I'll let you decide :)