NEW WEBSITE

CHECK OUT MY NEW WEBSITE HERE

DRAB-ART.COM

Studio

A week ago I moved into this studio space on Rathdowne St, North Carlton. Great little room above a great little cafe. A big empty room at the minute but will be filling out as the year rolls on. Exciting times.

Sneak Peak

I am working on a large scale paste-up at the moment, here is a sneak peak at the image.

2010

This guy is going to be the centre piece of a new street art project I am going to be working on over the next couple of weeks in preparation of getting my new website up and running. Looking to be a good start to 2010.

Prints

Have been re-visiting some old drawings and cleaning them up in preparation of having screen prints made up of them. These will be the first 3 with more to follow soon after.

Will be very limited runs of each and will be selling at a very affordable prices.

CALLING ALL WEB DESIGNERS

Drab needs a new home.

I am looking at launching a new website as a sort of online portfolio where I can showcase more of my art work and eventually sell prints of the illustrations I have been working on.

Must have a bit experience in this type of thing with knowledge in setting up an online store.

If you or someone you know is looking for a little paid freelance web work flick me an email to drab.art@gmail.com.

Cheers

D

Eyes

Collab with the cake lady

I am currently in the process of working on a joint street art project with a fellow Brunswick Street artist due who go by the name of Urban Cake Lady. This image will be blown up to about 6 ft tall with the other two adding their spice to the mix.

Check out their stuff here

http://urbancakelady.blogspot.com/

Will keep ya posted on how this turns out.

Brunswick Mural, maybe.

I am designing a mural for a new cafe that will be opening up in brunswick in the next month or so. This was my first idea that I gave to them. I think he really liked it but was hesitant as its a little different from what you normally see around. I have another couple of ideas so hopefully he likes one of them enough for me to paint the side of his building. This will be my first major move into large scale paint work as well so I am very keen to get this gig.

(click the image to see more detail)

Another quick sketch

baby

My awesome sister just gave birth to a baby boy. My first nephew!! This one is dedicated to him.

100th Post!!!

Thank you to everyone over the past year who have supported me! I have received countless emails of encouragement not to mention all the amazing things people have said on this blog and to me in person. I feel as an illustrator and an artist I have come a long way over the past 12 months and it has been a pleasure to have you all here for the ride. I hope, moving forward, to keep you all coming back for more as I move into what is looking to be an amazing year for me creatively.

D

Updated image

After speaking with a friend thought this image was lacking a little depth so made a few minor changes. Think this one works a lot better.

New Image

On MySpace

For all the Americans out there....

Street Art Journal

I strongly recommend you click the link below and subscribe to this online monthly publication. Each month has an array of internationally renowned street artist interviews and work to keep ya up to date with whats going on the world of street art.

http://www.theartstreetjournal.com/

Drab type-face

Click the image to enlarge

quick sketches

New Zealand trip

Had a fun time in Napier, New Zealand over the weekend celebrating a good friends wedding. Managed to get up a few of these around the place as well.

Meet Fattio

Sex

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

d

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