Meet Fattio

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Drabadabadoo!!

Thanks to everyone that helped make this happen. You can check it out on Palmer St Richmond, hopefully she will be there for a while.

New mural for the new Melbourne heat wave

Pasting

Ok so I have been out of the pasting game for a while now as have been busy with a bunch of other things but am eager to get back into it. Missing the buzz of seeing my drawings up around the place. Looking for a spot now to get the image above up now, looking to hopefully go bigger than I have ever gone. Watch this space.

Beat Mag

So here is the back of the lastest Beat Mag with my little illustration. Pretty stoked.

Squidman

Squidman turned up a month or so ago, as you can see from this and the last image Im really trying to lift my game when it comes to colouring and getting the shading looking good. Let me know what ya think feedback is always appreciated.

New illustration

Have been working on a few other images lately while I havent been posting on the blog. This is one of them that is a work in progress.

48 hour film festival

Been working on an Illustration for the 48 hour film festival thats coming up here in Melbourne in November. This is the image thats being used in The Beat mag next week which is pretty exciting as its the first time any image I have drawn will be in print.

Check out more info of the festival here if ya interested

To you....

Hi there,

Firstly a big thanks to everyone who continues to keep coming back to check out this website time and time again. Sorry for the lack of content over the past few weeks as I have been super busy with work and a few paying side projects (boring logo design stuff). Also having this Melbourne winter sucking the life out of me day by day has not been doing much for me creatively! This is all changing however as the days are getting warmer and the stockpile of new pasties I have built up (see above) are starting to call out for new homes in and around the streets of this city I call home.

Thanks again to all the drab fans out there

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Alex Pardee

Alex Pardee is a US based artist/illustrator. I came across this guy through his blog on the UPPERPLAYGROUND webite and have become a huge fan ever since. His illustration work is unreal and his paintings or what you might call fine art works are even better. This guy is intensely talented and is living the kind of life I am trying to work towards. Here is a great link to a clip of him speed painting and also if your interested you can check out more of his work from his website here.

Much respect to this guy

Passing time

Here are some of my latest sketches, half on trams half at work...

Pencil and pen

The Brunswick Bandit

Casing joints on Victoria st East Brunswick.

Massive lady now on Victoria St

Cheers for the help Rice and Henry

Massive lady in my living room

New paste-up

Size does matter

Ok so after looking at the images I uploaded on the previous post I wasnt really sure they really showed the true size of this thing so I went back later in the arvo and got a passer buy to take this for me. By the way I am just over 6ft tall :)

Drunk shooting the tooth fairy....

An old favourite of mine juiced up a bit on a larger scale.

Corner Glenlyon rd and Ewing st, East Brunswick

Now on Flickr

Started a photostream in Flickr for all you Flickr nuts out there.

Will be able to tag where the pictures where actually taken with this so if you are interested in knowing where to find any of my work going forward you will be able through this site.

Sketching

Here are some of my latest tram sketches... Been playing with the japanese manga styles and adding my own spin on it.

Fatman gets a little fatter

Just had my little brother in town for the weekend which was great as he is only 13 and still has that natural inquisitive nature that is so great in kids. He came out with me today and helped put this poster up by being my look out. This is up on Drewery Lane in the CBD

Fatman gets some ink

Thought this guy could do with some toughening up

A quick 'How to' for Paste-up

I have had a few people emailing asking some questions regarding paste-up and how it all works. Will give a quick run down of how I go about it. There are many different ways to go about it but for me this is by far the easiest.

Most of the paste-ups I have been doing are printed from files that I have drawn on photoshop. I get them printed by TDC3 printing in Richmond as they are right now the cheapest I have found. They have a printer that prints 8410mm x endless!! You need to make sure if you use these guys that you have your images in no more that 100DPI otherwise the printer will not be able to process the images. Obviously if your not in Melbourne your best bet is to call around printing companies to find one that will print in large format. I am paying $3.60 per mtr so that should give you a good indication of a pretty good price.

Another way I have used a bit recently is to hand draw the images with markers. Right now I am using Med sized KRINK pens and Large tipped SHARPIES. These together are good enough for fine detail as well covering large areas.

Now this is a question I have been getting a lot. What paper to use for paste-up posters?

Honestly most paper works but I have found that the thinner the better. TDC3 Printers have 90 GSM on their large format printer which is perfect. If I am drawing the picture by hand I have been using a slightly thicker paper. This I have found is better as the markers tend to bleed to much when using the thinner paper. I get this paper from this ART SHOP in Richmond because they have 1.5 x 10 mtr rolls for $30.

Next is cutting the image out. The best tool to use for cutting out is an artist scalpel. You will also need a good cutting board as the scalpel will destroy any table surface and then go blunt.

Next step now is making glue. I have posted a glue recipe previously which you can view here. I have had some good feedback from this recipe and it works everytime for me.

The best tools for pasting the posters up is different depending on the size of the poster. A wide painters Brush is great for smaller posters and for the larger a house broom. Best broom to use is one of the ones with the plastic fiber bristles as it makes it easier to clean.

So yeah thats basically it.

Hope it helps.

Talking Wall

Project Time

Ok so I have just locked down a new street art project that I will be collaborating on with the help of two other melbourne based artists Oppy and Ben Zen. Watch this space as this is going to be BIG!!

Will start to post up some sneak peaks in the coming weeks.

Twit Twit Tweet

Now on Twitter

Tram sketch

This is my favourite so far.

Skully goodness

Skulls around fitzroy

Boxing Egg

Drab comes to Fitzroy

More to come...

Hi Ho Hi Ho

Prep work

Now on Facebook