Deaster Bunny

When you do your Easter shopping this year, you might see this guy on your favourite Mars products...

But he looked a little different last year...

Retailers apparently found him a little... disturbing... so I was asked to give him a bit of a photoshop facelift; if it's good enough for supermodels it's good enough for the Easter bunny!

The original 3D model wasn't bad, but I think the anthropomorphism needed a bit of work.
After stripping out the high contrast shadow and colour, the real work began adjusting his overall proportions and giving him a more 'cuddly' look. The arms and torso were enlarged, paws articulated and ears rounded. The eyes needed to be completely reworked with for a more traditional 'cartoony' shape and the mouth subtly stylised for a more neutral expression.

Lastly he was recoloured, bringing back the pink in more gentle tones, purifying the whites and giving his clothes a deeper, contrasting hue that would work with the all 3 core products.

Below you can see a full flow from start to finish. It's quite exciting to see him on the shelves now!

D's Nana

What can I say, I illustrated a Banana...

D's Panda

My favourite thing is designing characters. Here's a series of concepts for a Panda, for a proposed food product, exploring different styles.

D's Nuleaf

I was called on by Queensland garden supplier Nuleaf to update their character mascot as part of an overall corporate re-branding. Their ‘Little Man’ has obviously served them well, but was also in desperate need of an update.

With the only requirement to maintain the colours and outfit, I decided to be bold and rather than work up a series of sketches (as I normally would), just go for it with a couple of well realised colour roughs; one capturing the spirit of the original, the second starting from scratch. 

The client was quite pleased with the new concept, but had a few requests to capture his ‘essence’ and a great reference of a large statuette they use in store.

Using that as a base, I went back to the drawing board with a few line drawings and quickly came up with a final product we were all happy with!

Before and after

The final product.

D's Illustrated Monsters

A few 'quickies' I did just for fun, while playing the Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords game.

D's Illustrated Star Wars

I don't think I'm coming out of the closet to reveal that I'm a geek; but perhaps you don't know just how geeky... I play Roleplaying Games (like Dungeons & Dragons)- Phew, it feels good saying that out loud (actually I'm pretty unashamedly proud of it).

My group recently finished up a two and a half year Star Wars 'campaign' (which is quite impressive I assure you) and as part of that process the players kept up a series of fantastic journals (via a blog) written from their character's perspective and illustrated by me. I recently (finally) finished that epic task and thought I'd share a few of my favorites….

Dsend Best of 2012

I know your Inbox is full on a Friday morning; so to anyone who takes the time to read Dsend I say thank you. If you've ever sent me an email to say you enjoyed, or found a link useful, sent me an article or just hit reply to say hello, then I say thank you.

To those of you who don't have the time or constitution to make it through Dsend each week I offer you a round up of my favourite links of 2012 in the posts below.

 Believe it or not, this was YOUR favourite post of the year... I received a lot of replies about this and with my son starting Kindergarten I might try for a repeat of this little project.

But this... was my favourite article...

And with that little bit of nepotism, I'd just like to say Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and... thank you.

D's Darth

This was the last 'D' illustration I used for my current business card; the others (from previous Dsends), Dragon, Dinosaur, Devil, Dorothy and Death are all available as posters on Artflakes. I'm seriously considering a full Alphabet series now... Enjoy!

D's Bazaar

A little job I did recently for the local school's Bazaar.

D's Dragon

With the Hobbit on the way, I got a little Smaugish...

D's Dino

A little Dino I did...

D's Halloween

Happy Halloween courtesy of a little conceptual job I had to do last week...

D's Devil

A little illustration I did of the devil in the details.

D's Death

A little pic by me to say it was the Saaalmoon Mooousssse...

D's Dorothy

Here's a little study of Dorothy form the Wizard of Oz for a private project...

D's Monsters Redux

Based on some sketches originally done for my daughter's birthday invite, I was able to update them for her friend's Birthday invite (another in a string of 'Monster Parties!). Not bad for an hours work... Want to try them again and give them a more retro look.

D's FDay

Some of my 7 year old daughter's handy-work last Sunday... She didn't need the labels, that's a damned good likeness...

D's Difficulty

Came across this little image I did while cleaning up my filespace. It's a series of icons for the difficulty selection for: Puzzle Chronicles, showing increasing difficulty from left to right... Sorry, it just still cracks me up...

D VoTEE: Dismembered

I currently have another T-Shirt (the design you might remember from a previous post) on Threadless up for voting: DisMembership!

Again, I would really appreciate your support; it should only take five minutes and if you voted last time (of course you did!) it will be even quicker!
By supporting my design you are supporting me... So thanks!

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Thanks again for your support.

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D's Freezies

These are some Iced softdrink 'Flavour' character concepts I did for a convenience store franchise.