NEW POSTERS!#^%#&$#*
Varying formats.
A1 - 2 Colour Screenprint
Here are the last three So So Modern posters. I'm useless and haven't made it
to any of the gigs! I really like the yellow one and the green one.
A2 - 3 Colour
This is a tour blank for a band in Christchurch. I did a CD single cover for them
which contains similar imagery... it'll be posted up here once it's done. A couple of
people asked where I scanned the plane/smoke image from... I guess it looks quite
old school or something... anyway, I drew it and was pretty stoked with how it
turned out. It almost works as a grim companion piece to the Over the Atlantic
poster below. No doubt if I was in the US i'd be arrested as a terrorist.
My Band is playing at this gig. Stoked! The Mint Chicks released one of the best
albums of 2006, hands down. Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
I originally had another concept in mind that was more or less taking the piss
out of some stuff that went down at the end of their last gig here that got blown
out of proportion... but it would've been a massive in-joke...
and not a very funny
one really.
A1, 2 Colour Screen Print
This is the first in a series of 4 prints. They'll all be featuring this
character, or variations of it, fitting the theme of each particular gig.
Stylistically far removed from almost all my other work, period.
I enjoyed making it. I look forward to the others.
A1, 2 Colour Screen Print
Two completely separate gigs on one poster is pretty unorthadox.
Poor ghosty heartbrain couldn't hack the pace apparently. Emooo
A1, 2 Colour Screen Print
Taking the name somewhat literally... I guess...
I like this one quite a lot
A1, 2 Colour Screen Print
The original date of this got pushed back so I got a chance to rework a few things
I wasn't happy with from the first attempt. This has a certain vibe for me that I don't
think other people pick up on. Definitely a departure from other posters.
Okay, so this was a pretty major deal for me. No way did I expect to land a
Poster of the Week on gigposters.com quite so soon, if at all. It's an incredible honour
for me,
as the site has been a massive inspiration to me. The artists and their work on
there both
inspired me and pushed me to work harder on my illustration.
Massive thanks to Clay, the creator and runner of gigposters.com!!
I feel I should note that the poster of week isn't drawn from the most recent
submissions to the site (although a lot of times it is) but every poster that has ever been
submitted. Which means this was drawn from the tens of thousands of posters on the site.
Go me!
As far as the poster itself goes, I needed to do something quick before I went away on
holiday to Melbourne with my girlfriend. I'd wanted to try something using halftone-ish
dots as shading, to give a flat object some depth. I think it worked. I've been pretty
interested by various peoples interpretations of it too. Someone thought it looked like
old school video game graphics (guess they saw the dots as pixels), someone else
thought it was trying to emulate the look of an electron microscope image. Some people
see a bug, some people see a mask, some people see a weird alien face.
Really, it's satisfying to know that people actually look at it long enough to come up
a personal take on it.
This poster is for a show we're playing in a couple of days (although it'll probably be
months ago by the time I update the site again) with Auckland bands Malenky Robot
and Amy Racecar. Oh and The Henderson. Notice how I didn't make our band name
huge. Personally I think the most important names on a poster are the headlining
act(s). Some bands pack a major sad when their name isn't as big as everyone elses
on the poster. Just an ego thing I guess. Ultimately, if the poster is interesting enough
people will actually stop and look at it. I quite like this poster. It was done fairly quickly.
There's a ton of these around the place at the moment. I'll take a a photo if it ever
stops raining.
*UPDATE*
The gig went really well. We played a pretty good set, and there were a lot of
unfamiliar faces there. Good to know it's not just our friends showing up to the gigs
There'll be a write up about this gig on my blog soonish.
Unlike the poster below, pretty much the entire country (or at least, people who live in
cities that count) saw this one. I had done the very first Low Hum tour posters a while back
and was really stoked to be given the opportunity to have another swing at it.
After a bunch of sketching, for whatever reason, spray can characters appealed and
seemed appropriate. This was completed it pretty much one sitting. All nighters do funny
things to the brain. There's a little narrative in there, but it quite possibly only apparent
after you've forgone sleep and sat at a computer for 10 hours+. These looked great on the
street... the red really popped. It's a two colour offset print... There were also A0 sized
black and white prints which while not only huge, stood out pretty nicely too. Go me!
This imagery featured on the cover of the Low Hum magazine, as well as the cover of the
CDs that came with the magazine, and also the discs themselves. Much thanks to Blink!
This poster is kinda special as it was for my first gig with Fighting the Shakes.
We're not actually all 'throw up ya goats' metal or anything, but given the date of
the show, it seemed appropriate. Did you find the secret writing?
Unfortunately
barely anyone saw these posters as they never got put up before the
gig.
The gig itself was pretty fun. I was pretty nervous beforehand, as I'd never played
in front a crowd in public. I managed to compound my nervousness by busting the
low E on my bass about 15 seconds into our sound check.... and we'd left the spare
set of strings at the practice space. Good one! Still, one mad cross town dash later
and we were back in time for me to drink a beer, have it sit very poorly, and play our
set. Like most things you anticipate for days on end, it seemed to be over in a flash.
And from what I can tell we didn't suck. The Henderson are lovely lads too, but being
a tuesday, everyone buggered off after we played. Which is either a good sign or a
bad sign... I'm not entirely sure.
I think it's fairly obvious where the inspiration for the character on this poster came
from. If not... look at the band name, then look at the picture. It's funny, to a lot of
people the little guy looks totally bummed out... but he's actually just stoked to be
hearing for the first time in years. He just had to break his own horn off to do it.
I've drawn a lot of these little cyclopsy cloven hoofed be-horned guys... I dig 'em.
It must be noted that I suck and didn't go to any of the shows these guys played.
