Bats of Leisure

Judy has a Lion

Recently I have been designing the album cover for Danish artist Julie Dybvad. Her album is called 'Judy has a Lion' and will be released in a few months I think, when I have more information I will post it here. Anyway I thought it might be interesting to show my design process

I started off with this image, a proud lion with a flag, and his owner, having a spiritual moment on some hills. Julie said the text might be a bit hard to read in the flag, and she wanted more emphasis on the work lion, which I thought was fair enough. She also wanted the figure to look a bit for confident.

So I made the flag smaller and drew some new text, I wasn't happy with this, the composition looked disjointed.

This is a fun astral inversion, this is actually my favourite one.

I also tried adding colour, but Julie said he would prefer it black and white, so this is as far as I got.

To make the figure more confident looking I drew her riding the Lion, and gave the Lion a knife which it holds in its mouth. 

I also tried colouring this one, but Julie liked the other image better. I was really great getting all this feedback.

So I went back to the old image, changed the face of the girl a bit, took the flag out completely and tried a few different fonts. This is curved lettering.

This is straight lettering on two lines.

This is straight lettering on one line.

This is some rope font, I was really happy with the words 'Judy has' but the last part went a bit wonky. I am still waiting to hear back from the lovely Julie about what font she prefers. If she likes the rope font I will try and do a better job with the second half of the lettering.

Love of Patterns

Yesterday I got two teeth pulled from my gums. So I have been resting in bed as my cheeks swell up like clouds, drawing and listening to Real Estate and Grimes live recording sessions. I have also been designing some fabric patterns for Bats of Leisure's new collection.

Animal head pattern 

tiny town pattern

Some more of Blue

My new favourite thing is inverting images on photoshop to look more spacey.

Moleskine time

Just got to scanning the pages of my Moleskine, it's been a long time.

cute boy from 1000 pound bend

girl as lion, concept art for an album cover I am illustrating, called 'Judy has a Lion'

more concept art, this time just of girl

warping landscape and floating leaf head, and also symbols with 2 A's

Fan art of Lehmann Smith, drawn at the launch for his album 'little milk'

 Some drawing of wolves for a tattoo for a special someone

 Occult yakult, drawn while up in Bright

 Two-headed gay wedding, after reading a lot about gay marriage

Star cloak, also drawn in Bright


animals drawn in Bright

more tattoo design and offensive llama

This is tattoo designing that was drawn at the launch for 'little milk'. meta.

Space animals

Pencil Pendants stocked in Modern Times

Modern Times pop up shop is stocking some of my pencil pendants, there are not many left and after I use my last sterling silver screw there will be no more for a very long time (until i get the screw cast).

^here is a photo of them. They come with silk bead cord.

Bats of Leisure

I have been doing some embroidery for a collection of clothing I am collaborating on with my sister Aoife. It's called 'bats of leisure' and will be stocked in Lady Petrova very soon. I have also been screen printings some fabric.

Chopped wood.

I spent a lovely crafternoon with Julia in Warrandyte, drawing, making dream catchers and sewing. I also drew some icons on tiny log cuts when I got home. These are they:

Exploding bodies

'choice sox'

'rum barf'

twig eye

The first print on wood that I might call a 'final'. The twig is gilded gold, nice.

frame of bones and veins

Some drawing from my Moleskine

Screen Printed

For university I have been learning how the screen print. I am in the process of creating an installation of printed figures and large lino printed text on found wood. It will be a kind of shrine.

below are some prints on fabric that I will print some more of so that my sister aoife can use them to make dresses and pencils cases.

Twig print on navy cotton 

boy print on navy cotton 

stick collector on blue cotton

and here are some prints on paper, just playing around with colours and overlapping right now, the finals will be printed on wood. 

planting print 

smoking print 

3 layer boy 

boy with growth

stick collector in blue 

blue boy with faun twig