Oakridge Fellowship

I recently designed the banner for a group I am a part of called Oakridge Fellowship. The concept was to design a tree that branched out of Mjollnir, the symbol of Thor's hammer. The roots of the tree end as the antlers to a stag's head.

Kitties!

Today, I spent most of the day doing chores, but I did get a bit of time to drawing my two cats, Max and Moritz.

PATH Train Commuters

Here is series of commuters I saw on the PATH train on friday.

Tesla

Finally got back to my electricity project. More to come but here is Tesla's portrait I promised.

Tesla was one incredible man, who not only discovered the AC electric system all of our power runs on today, but also created the first hydroelectric power plant, the remote control and aslo worked on wireless radio transmissions, x-rays and was trying to create wireless power transmitter until he ran out of money. His life has certainly been a fascinating read.

If you missed it check out Edison and Westinghouse's drawings.

Australian Romance Award Finalist!

A book cover I art directed with illustrator Gene Mollica is up for an award in Australian Romance Readers Association.

The book is Firelight by Kristen Callihan, is fantasy, historical novel that takes place in Victorian England and the first book in The Darkest London series. I am currently working on the next upcoming cover.

Back to Work

First post of the new year, though its been about three weeks since the new year has begun. After a bit of new years reorganization its time to get back to work on my own projects once again!

To start off the new years I decided to share a drawing I have made from my commute on the PATH train to NYC.

Heraldry

Recently, as part of a private commission I was asked to recreated several English coat of arms. It was a  gift to the client's father as part of a larger research project into her family's history. There were four in total, Pyke, Jewett, Gilbert and Woodman. 

By combining written descriptions and very low res imagery of the shields or just parts of the shields I recreated each one in illustrator. Each one had its own unique challenge depending on how much information was available and then of course making sure they all still worked with each other.

The end result was a 11 x 17 poster of each coat of arms with a description beneath. I hear that both she and her father are very happy!