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Blue Star

Blue Star


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I have a pretty cool friend online, she's Irish, is learning to be a tattoo artist and has enough photos on the net for me to use as reference for this portrait. Drawn in illustrator, including the flat tones, overpainted in Photoshop.

Meet BlueStar.

Give Me Danger

Give Me Danger


Originally uploaded by franczv

Couldn't sleep so I did this portrait of model Renee Foxx, based on an image I came across on her Model Mayhem page. Important to note that this was hand drawn with my Wacom in Illustrator, not filtered or traced. Tried to stay true to her tattoos.

Had some fun, good way to fill in some insomnia time!

Last day with my full time class for the year. Feeling vaguely accomplished...

Thrashing Them Crooked Vultures..

Waiting for Deb, designing a motion sequence in my head to a Spinnerette song.

After Effects of the Mutant Freakshow

It's Fringe festival time here in sunny Adelaide and as with every Fringe for the last few years we get to enjoy the Garden of Unearthly Delights, it's a pretty cool Carnival style set up. In this years Garden there's a mutant animal freakshow on. So not wanting to waste the inspiration I put this one together.

Duality

Long time between drinks

Well, it's been a while, and in the last three months my world has turned upside down. Here's a piece I did just before the calamity, posting some new stuff soon though, I haven't stopped drawing, just posting...

Warrior

The Dragan Experiment

Although I only really post my illustration work on Vox, I do like to work with images too.

A creative friend of mine showed me work by a photographer called Andrzej Dragan and how he was producing some images that utilised a similar style to Dragans work. So not wanting to be left out, I grabbed a few stock photos and had a play. In both experiements, the original(s) are on the left, altered on the right.

Dragan Style Experiment 1

Dragan Style Experiment 2

Bulletproof & Trigger Happy

This is a portrait piece of the über talented designer / illustrator Sheima Hassanlou (aka Unikfrek on vox). Sheima works in motion design, print graphics and produces some of the slickest collage based illustrations on the planet.

BulletproofTriggerHappy

This piece is a continuation of the style I used on the Moira Built for Noir piece, trying to push it to a new and crisp level and creating an image of the super sexy Sheima was the perfect inspiration!

Moira Built For Noir

I'm not the biggest social networker, but I do partake a little.

I keep a gallery of my stuff over at Trig.com, a fellow Trig member and online friend Moira posted this great black and white photo of herself, and on seeing it, I wound up finding some inspiration.

MoiraBIG

The exercise yielded an image I was happy with and also some more custom, hand lettered type. A skill set I've been fooling around with / developing for a while now and I'm aiming to do a lot more of it. Got to love some filigree.

It also was a testing ground for working with an etching look style (sort of in the dollar bill vein). The whole piece was a lot of fun, a good relaxation exercise and best of all the lovely Moira was pleased!!

MoiraName

After all there's nothing like a pretty girl and a little inspiration to take you on an interesting journey!