illustration

Justice Lease

Design

It’s three weeks ’til the new Superman movie comes out and I am pretty excited. I’m going to the premier in my best suit and then under that suit I will wear my Clark Kent suit and under that suit I will wear my superman pajamas suit, I may never take off the first two suits at the cinema but I’ll know that underneath it all I’m a Superman… a sweaty, suffocating Superman who will order a large Coke at the candy bar and will freak out in the bathroom when I undo 2 flies and have to wrangle the underpants I’m wearing over the superman suit.

In anticipation for the new film and because it’s fun to make movies, some friends of mine have started a web-series called Justice Lease. I contributed four illustrations for the intro which look really slick incorporated into the final product.

aquaman sketches Batmoon hulk sketch SUPERMAN final

The series is about superheroes living together. The house is perhaps too small to contain all of their egos and alter egos.

I have an alter-ego called Chad Bunnings. He understands what all the posts are for in all of the sports, he can open the front boot of a car and tell you the machine part that’s not working, he even has names for his fists: Punchy and Phillip.

You can see Episode one of Justice lease here:


If you liked this episode and want to see more, you can help pay for camera rental and sandwiches for the gaffer by adding to the Justice Lease pozible here

ART IS FUN ART IS FUN ART IS FUN ART IS FUN.

This is Interesting

When you travel to different countries you visit their landmark galleries and their small ones. Whist in LA in 2010 I stumbled across a small gallery called Gallery 1988 where they were having a group show dedicated only to HE -MAN. Not a group show for the benefit of He-Man but a group exhibition of artworks based on the He-Man TV series. He-Man is however an avid supported of the arts.

       

It was really refreshing to see. I presumed all artists were fans of the show and they were unashamedly painting, designing or sculpting something they love to love. A day earlier whilst in California I saw Jeff Koons’ “Michael Jackson and Bubbles”(1988) sculpture which is a high-art version of the same thing, a celebration of pop culture.

I was reminded of the He-Man show after I came across a Steve Martin group exhibition that was also held in Gallery 1988. The artworks at Gallery 1988 are by legitimate artists and the enthusiasm the artists have for their subjects in turn creates a really joyful gallery going experience.

           

A friend of mine is a Law and Order fan and he was wearing a Law and Order T-Shirt which was designed by a fellow Law and Order fan Brandon Bird who has created really funny artworks that make me LOL! His portrait of Christopher Walken building Optimus Prime is the kind of image that makes any grown man involuntarily smile like he just saw Christopher Walken building Optimus Prime. He paints what he loves and it is fulfilling for him and it’s artists like Bird and those that exhibit in Gallery 1988 that turn Fan Art in to Fine Art.

Check out Gallery 1988’s website here and Brandon Bird’s website here.