Puppy Profile: Holly

One of my fellow illustrators, Brad, has a young Kelpie named Holly.

It would seem that Holly is your kind of adventurous act first, ask questions later kind of pup.

Holly loves her ball, the beach, and chasing her ball at the beach. It just took her awhile to grasp the concept that water is not as easy to run on top of as sand.

It can certainly come as a rude shock when you're baring down on you favourite tennis ball and the ground disappears out from underneath you, and then the next thing you know, you're having a salt water bath!

Have included some wonderful photos of Holly when she was young taken by Brad's brother.

Need coffeeee....

Just a really quick scribble this morning...Badly need coffeeeeeeeee.....

The morning walk

No matter big or small, fat or skinny, tall or short, (alien or earthling) it seems that dogs love nothing more than their morning walk. I drew this, this morning as i was car pooled into work. Gave me some good sketch time...

Puppy Profile: Spunkii

Did this pic for a mate of Jemma's. Here's what she had to say about Spunkii:-

"This is a dog who can not for one second let me spend 5 minutes alone. Not in the shower, not when going to the toilet, not even in bed with a man.. he must be able to walk in and check up on me and know here I am and what I'm doing at all times. In saying this, if he knows I'm going to be in the same spot for a little while (usually when I'm cooking or watching a dvd) he will disappear into my room and I wont hear the usual chewing of toys etc.. During these times I will always find Spunkii sitting on the floor looking at himself in the mirror in my bedroom. Often he'll sit on the foot of my bed staring at himself in the mirror. I have even come to notice that when I'm in bed reading and he's lying on my bed with me, he will always face the mirror and just look at himself.My ex used to call him the "serial killer", the way he would just stare like a creep into the mirror and if you went to interrupt him, his actions where very slow and calculated, however I think he just realises how cute he is, and he's working on his sad faces in order to get away with more stuff whenever he is with me."

Monsters and Puppies

Wha? Who did that?

Today's sketch is inspired by a scene that involve Sam on a regular basis.

I've also been mucking around with some different sketching styles.

I have also include the styles I developed for Moose for the Pawphans and MeMate ranges.

Covorting with the enemy

I've often wondered why it is that some dogs will quite happily live in harmony with cats, others will take not interest in them, and then others will look at a cat like its the greatest remote control chew toy of all time.

I wonder if those dogs think of their doggie brethren as traitors when the see them covorting with the enemy.

Space walk - One small step in slow motion

Was thinking to myslef this morning how funny it is to see an owner chasing their dog that has got off the leash and is chasing something. Take that amusing situation and place it in the low gravity of the moon and we have our very frustrating astronaut calling out in the vacuum of space as he pursues (in low gravity bouncing slow mo) his moon rover. :)

Dogs: Furry Grafitti Artists?

Observing my dog, Sam marking his turf this morning got me thinking about the similarities between dogs and grafitti artists. Both are territorial and mark their territory. Does this mean if you believe in reincarnation that if yopu are a grafitti artist you will come back as a dog? Or is it vice versa?

I wonder what Sam's tag is? :)

Getting the idea down fast

Often when the idea happens you are never at the drawing board or wacom tablet, so i find it necessary to always carry a pen around and hope there is some drawing surface in the vicinity. In the case of yesterdays sketch, once again the idea came at a time when the drawing board was nmany miles away, and so i scibbled down the idea on the cruddiest bit of scrap paper i could find at hand.

I kinda like look back at these images because they have their own individual charm.

Good Idea - Bad Execution

Sometimes drawings just don't turn out as well as you hoped (I'm not gonna admit to just how often that happens! :) ). This one is the perfect example. The idea seemed good in my head but I rushed into it without any real thought to layout and composition...and the rest as they say is history. You can see the result.

Bark 0101001 (or Nerd Humour!)

Did this one in my lunch break today after scribbling down the idea on a scrap piece of paper on the way to work. Its pretty nerdy humour, but i guess thats me in a nutshell... :)