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Company: PetRescue website… Project: Illustrated postcard featuring pets Method: Digital illustration- Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign This illustration was done for PetRescue; a not-for-profit organisation that lists homeless animals from many different shelters on one site to increase their chances of being seen and re-homed. This postcard…

An illustration created for a limited edition postcard calendar offered by Coin Club Australia to celebrate the coming of the new Chinese new year; the year of the dragon.

Simon Zhou from Coin Club has long been a fan of the Australian Bush Babies illustrations. This postcard was a promotional item offered by Coin Club at the Melbourne Coin Show this year. It features the five animals from Coin Club’s Wildlife in Need series done in a similar style to that of Bush Babies.

Coin and shipper illustrations done for the Australian Bush Babies coin series from The Perth Mint. The series was an instant success with each coin’s mintage of 10,000 selling out within days of release.

An entry to an online competition in which the challenge was to design a large colossal creature for the online game RIFT. This concept was inspired by the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus, an unpleasant fungus that ‘mind-controls’ ants by infecting their brains.

Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band with an eclectic style. This project required an illustration of the band members for a promotional tour poster. The project was done under tight deadlines and a deliberately loose style was chosen to enhance the theme and reduce the turnaround time.

Every year since 2008 the Perth Mint has released a series of $1 Australian coins for younger collectors. In 2010 the theme was Backyard Bugs. This illustration for the coin folder features each of the insects that appear in the coin series.

A character concept done for an online competition. The challenge was to create a Military Unit called “The Hacker” in the year 2090 where wireless networks have been disrupted and wired technology takes its place.

A character concept done for an online competition at conceptart.org. The challenge was to redesign characters from old 8-bit games. This is Splash Woman from Mega Man 9 redesigned to reflect the advanced technology of today’s consoles.

This “lil’ tiger” character was initially created for a birthday card and became instantly popular on online galleries such as Deviantart. The success of the birthday card version led to the creation of several other versions for other occasions and other merchandise.

This feline warrior character was created as a personal project and to test out some oil brushes in Corel Painter. The character is based on an anthropomorphised version of a king cheetah and was inspired by a number of fantasy and adventure games.

Part of a challenge at conceptart.org to create a creature that lives beneath the surface of the moon. This is a satellite borer, based loosely on the nymph of a cicada.