Finished cover design

In my previous post, I talked about my competition entry for the cover of Drum Media. Well, I've finished the design now, and here's the finished product:

Voting is up on summerfestivalguide.com.au in the BDO cover art voting section.

Go on, vote for me :)

Home again...and been keeping busy

Well my little foray living overseas has ended...and I travelled home via Japan. I love Japan...especially with their craftiness and a whole stack of other things that are too numerous to list. I will post some photos of that trip later (as I've been saying for the past year).

At the moment, been keeping busy with some illustrator drawings for a competition. These have taken a bit of getting used to, mainly as I dont have a wacom/bamboo tablet, and have been using my mouse...I really need to get a wacom/bamboo tablet..think it will be worth my while (as well as my sanity!). Anyway, the illustrator drawings are for a competition for Drum Media (a free local street press newspaper) for their Big Day Out cover. They have this competition every year, and I've been meaning to enter it but never been bothered. That is until this time round. One of the catalysts is that one of my favourite bands is headlining - Muse.

And so, I've been creating illustrator drawings of the band members. So far, I've finished Matt's portrait completely and I've done the head of Dominic.

Matt's portrait took a total of around 5 hours from start to finish...you can't really see the detail in his face from this image, but I did a lot of zooming in...his eyes were especially hard. I'm still not happy with the labaret area though.

Dominic's portrait is still not finished as its a work in progress screen grab...so he looks like a disembodied head at the moment. This one so far has been a lot quicker than Matt, around the one and half hour mark. I started his originally and then deleted all the layers because it wasn't looking right, and started all over again. I also had a different version of this photo where he had these ridiculous sunglasses on, and found this version where there was a clean shot of his face.

Now I just have to finish off Dominic and start on Chris...although I may have to find a different image of Chris as it looks completely different from the portraits of Matt and Dom, even though it's from the same photoshoot.

Ah well, no rest for the wicked :)

Planet Loud Galleries

I've been meaning to make a post specifically for my planet-loud photos but I really haven't got around to it (mainly cos I'm a slacker and I've been busy packing my life up into boxes). Anyway, here you go. All the links to the galleries for my Planet Loud photos. I'm still waiting for the Billy Talent and Architects/Never say die tour photos to go up, but those links will be posted soon.

Also, last week saw Muse for the first time in 2 years. Had seating tickets the first night and then GA/standing tickets the next night...and boy was it worth the effort to get to the shows...the stage set up is amazing with these LED towers and the imagery on the LED towers is amazing...which I've come to expect from Muse...I'll try and post photos when I get the chance.

Planet Loud links:
36 Crazyfists
A Textbook Tragedy
Architects
As I Lay Dying
Atreyu
Funeral for a Friend
Gwen Stacy
Horse the Band
Misery Signals
MUCC
Poison the Well
Save your Breath
Story of the Year
Telegraphs

enjoy...next time you hear from me will probably be in either Japan or back home in sunny Sydney!

Car envy

I am completely and utterly in love with this car:

and this car could quite possibly have overtaken my other favourite Ferrari, the F430, as my new favourite Ferrari...hmmmmmm.

and the website is awesome to boot...you can 'customise' your Ferrari...you can take a look at it here.

I'm in love....

Sydney the new Mars?

Quite glad I wasn't in Sydney yesterday (thats Australian time), as I would have been sneezing like there was no tomorrow...check this scene out:

(picture courtesy of Shaun Davies, ninemsn)

That is the Sydney Harbour bridge...hiding in a cloud of red dust. Apparently what happened was a intense low pressure system came through and picked up all the dust/red top soil from Southern NSW and gales forced it whipped it up and shoved it in the direction of Sydney. It was said to be more dense in particles than bushfire smoke...and that's saying something!

But man, how awesome does it look? Even if everything comes out looking filthy and covered in a fine layer of red dust.

More pics are here...amazing :)

'The last train home....'

I've been a fan of the Lostprophets since I first heard them on the start something album in 2004. But I have never seen them live.

Here's the scenario...I was browsing the Big Day Out acts cds in the old HMV mid-city centre, and saw lostprophets album in there, heard a couple of songs, remember their song being in the advert for an old TV show called Charmed...and thought about seeing them...then thought nah...I can see them another time. Fast forward to 2009 and I'm still regretting that decision not to see them (also regretted not seeing the thursday/poison the well side show....but that's another story).

And in October this year, I will finally get to see them live...just after they release a new single and before they release their long awaited follow up to Liberation Transmission.

When I looked up their website recently, I was bombarded with the most amazing artwork:

It's a bit hard to see there, but a bigger version is at the Lostprophets website. I think one of the reasons why I love this is because I love crows...I literally love that species of bird...I don't know why. I think it might be because they are graceful when they fly, or that they have a supernatural aura around them. I could also be completely wrong, as they could be eagles...

Either way, I've loved the artwork for the lostprophets albums (with the exception of Fakesoundofprogress)...and I can't wait to see what they come up with...from what I've read, Ian Watkins (their lead singer) does a lot of the artwork himself.

And that's another reason to keep buying albums!

Hooray for CD/Vinyl sleeves!

Happy birthday to me!

Yay for me...just had to put a separate post for this :)


I would prefer cheesecake (of which I am currently eating...stuff the diet for the day! hehe), but cupcakes are just as good!