Anton Emdin's Illustration and Cartooning Blog

This blog has moved!

antonemdin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:38:22 +0000

Well, after only a few days, I’ve learnt from my good buddy Henry that I can host my own blog easily… so I have!

The new address: http://www.antonemdin.com/blog/

Please update your links & feeds. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Thanks,

Anton

Filed under: Miscellaneous

A couple of sketchbook pages

antonemdin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:00:13 +0000

By popular demand (I think three people have asked) here are a couple of pages from the sketchbook. These are just done with a B or 2B pencil, nothin’ fancy.

Filed under: Personal Art, Sketchbook

Illustrators Australia A3 Show

antonemdin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:03:58 +0000

I have a couple of works in the IA A3 show. Opening night is tonight, and there is bound to be a lot of amazing work on show. All the works are high quality giclee prints and are available for purchase at a reasonable price.

IA A3 Show Invitation

1st April, 2010:

Well, it was a good night. Met a few great artists and got to see a lot of brilliant work. Well done to Illustrators Australia, especially Christopher Nielsen and Nigel Bachanan for pulling it together.

Here are a few quick photos…

Filed under: Miscellaneous

Jungle Booty

antonemdin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:33:25 +0000

This one’s on the portfolio site, but I thought I’d show you a simple process; from sketch to colour.

I drew this for my own pleasure, mainly to test out a new dip pen. I used the Gillott 303 & 404 and also a sable #2 brush, with india ink. Colour was added digitally in Photoshop.

Filed under: Personal Art, Process

NCS Reubens Nomination!

antonemdin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:01:49 +0000

On behalf of the National Cartoonists Society, congratulations on your
nomination for the NCS Division Award for Magazine Feature/Magazine
Illustration.

You are one of three finalists for the award. The winner will be
announced at the 64th Annual NCS Reuben Awards banquet on May 29, 2010 in Jersey City, NJ.

I was delighted when I received this a couple of weeks ago! My lovely wife Ash and myself will be travelling to New York for the awards and conference in May. It is such an honour to be chosen, and I can’t wait to meet the cartooning greats (I’m one of the finalists with Ray Alma and the mighty Tom Richmond.)

I submitted six entries from publications last year. Here are a few of my favourite ones…

Summer BBQ illustration

Simpsons 20 Years illustration

Anatomy of a MAD Reader illustration

Please visit the NCS site to see all the nominees.

Filed under: Miscellaneous

Phattoo

antonemdin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:36:34 +0000

Tattoo design for my mate Giles, from Phatsville Comix.

Phattoo tattoo artwork

I’ll post some pics of the actual tattoo soon. Stay tuned!

Filed under: Tattoo Art

Open up and say aaaaaahhhh…

antonemdin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:38:52 +0000

Quick brush pen sketch

Open up and say aaaahhhh...

Filed under: Personal Art, Sketchbook

Snow Trite

antonemdin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:06:38 +0000

Sigh… so I finally succumbed and got a blog. My portfolio site is pretty limited, so I wanted somewhere to chuck up all the rest of the things I’ve been working on. Also, I’d like to give back to the community and do some tutorials at some stage.

Here is a personal piece I just completed. It is a digital painting (Photoshop) and I made things a little hard for myself by only painting on one layer. Ok, sometimes I added a quick layer on linear or multiply mode, but I would quickly merge down. And I limited the brushes to only hard brushes – no airbrush.

This was all a bad idea, and ended up taking me a lot longer than it should have. Next time I use layers and masks!

Snow Trite digital painting

Filed under: Digital Painting, Personal Art