Editorial: Period Home Renovator

This is a magazine I had the opportunity to illustrate for, The Period Home Renovator. The article I illustrated was about the realities of renovation. This was a new subject for me and I loved the challenge it gave me. I was thrown out of my comfort zone. So I was back to square one, research. I learned a lot of things during this projects and went through many concepts and drawings before I was happy to present it. I hope you enjoy as much as I did :)

Editorial: Destinations Australia

This is a editorial I did for Destinations Australia. The article was introducing the various shopping areas in Western Australia. If you're ever there don't miss out on these places.

Editorial: The Period Home Renovator Magazine

Hi all! This is some recent work I've been doing. This project was for The Period Home Renovator magazine. The article was about the realities of home renovating and how different families dealt with it and share tips.

Editorial: The Structure of Support

This is an article I had the opportunity to illustrate for Sydney's Child. The story is quite complex so at first it was a bit challenging to get the right image but once I started dropping and cutting off paragraphs and words to get to the core and find those keywords it all became very obvious.

This is the article with my illustrations:




Tearsheet courtesy of Sydney’s Child

These are the finished images:




And these are some concepts:

Editorial: Farewelling Flopsy

This is a n editorial I did for Sydney's Child in September. The story is about a parent when she has to tell her children their pet passed away.


Tearsheet courtesy of Sydney’s Child

The final image:


The concepts:

Concept 1


Concept 2

Editorial: Long Distance Grandma

Hi everyone! Hope all is well. Spring weather is starting to come in for Australia and so it's easier to move about and get out of bed without the dread. Though it's not cold compared to other countries it still take s a while to get the blood flowing...
Anyways, This is a recent editorial I had the opportunity to do for Sydney's Child. The story is about the relationship between Grand parent and grandchild wen distance come in between. I was able to relate very much to this story as I have always lived very far away from my grandparents.


The main image


Tearsheet courtesy of Sydney's Child

Editorial: Enviable Challenge

This is a new editorial I had the opportunity to do for Sydney's Child.

Editorial: Behind the Birthing Bravado

A new post!! Haven't been able to get around to doing one comfortably but I thought can't always have it your way so here I am at the library doing a new post.

This is one I had the opportunity to do with Sydney's Child for the June issue. We went through a few concepts before we were able to get to these two but it was worth it and the end result was great.

These are the final results the first one is the main image:

Illustration Friday: Early

This is what I did for Illustration Friday. The theme: Early.

Editorial: Stepping Over Stereotypes

Sydney's Child gave me this opportunity to do the illustrations for the story 'Stepping Over Stereotypes'. It is about a woman who is a stepmother who reads a fairy-tale to her stepdaughter but then is confronted by a question, who killed the stepmother. It explains the joys but also the difficulties in joining a new family and what is expected.

These are the finished art.

Editorial: Pushy Piano Parent

This is a piece I had the opportunity to do for Sydney's Child, April Issue 2010. Would you be a pushy piano parent or not? i don't know. I definitely think that supporting your children's ambition is important and if encouraging is needed then encourage them.

This is the finished product. The First one is the centre piece and the second is the sub:


Centre image for 'Pushy Piano Parent'.


Sub image for 'Pushy Piano Parent'.

These are a couple of concepts for the main image. We eventually went for concept 1:


Main image concept 1.


Main image concept 2.

And these are the sub images. Here we went for concept 2:


Sub image concept 1.


Sub image concept 2.

Editorial: 2020 Vision

This is another piece I had the opportunity to for Sydney Child Feb issue. The story is about now with our families and how would it be in 20 year time. Are we spending enough time with them or not.

This was quite difficult because there a lot of important passages. I had a lot to choose from.

So this is how I started out like this:

Two versions for the center image.





Two versions for the sub image.





Now this didn't work out so a few more concepts with the guidance of the Art Director. And this is what came up:









One each passed but the main images was trying to say too much so it was simplified by taking the lens image out. The following are the finished pieces for 2020 Vision.

Process For 'End of Friendship' Illustration

This is a project I did recently and it was a story about the end of a friendship. Two women who where friends while their children were babies started growing apart as their children got older because they couldn't get along.
When I read this story the yellow brick road kept popping into my head. Paths in other words, as we all make choices that alter our lives in some small way or big.
So here I am with my own yellow brick road to go down and came up with a few concepts to pitch.


Concept 1


Concept 2


Concept 3

These are fairly finished roughs with a colour map. The colour maps are there for both the art director and myself. Surprises can be disastrous... so I try to keep far away from those situations. But then you never know what can happen. Sometimes it all has to change if I'm not conveying what the story is saying.

It was decided that Concept 1 fit the story. I usually work at a B5 size, maybe a bit longer. The finished size was to be 14 x 10 in the magazine.
I stretch the paper and start once it is dried. I have two methods I use to transfer which is the light box or tracing paper. Depending where I am and what is available.
Then the painting comes in. After that I take it into computer for any digital work to done. In this particular one I used digital colouring around the children as I was still indecisive as to what colour should go around them and instead of making it impossibly difficult for me I decided to rely on digital coloring. Handy thing.


Finished Product