Prints by Paul Landacre

This is a nudge towards the fantastic blog ajourneyroundmyskull

Below, the intriguing and sensual work of  Paul Landacre

Zines & Mundo

I said I would write a post about Zines, but instead I am going to take the easy way out, and throw up some links for now.

First check out http://zinewiki.com/
It is a resource about Zines, their history and is actively being updated. Unfortunately its hard to actually access the Zines, but there is a bucket-load of information.

Then Check out http://zinelibrary.info/
It has a large archive of zines uploaded by people worldwide. Contains mostly politically focused, which I sometimes find tiresome, but there are many Jems. For example see the black-bloc zine, it is basically a whismical but furtive monolog from the creator, and it implements it's design & layout in interesting and personal ways. Its quite typical of whats a zine often looks like:
http://zinelibrary.info/black-bloc-zine

But Zines can really be any handmade, hand-produce publication (in my opinion), and I am more interested in zines that take on a narrative or a visual persona (those influenced by comics for example).

Anyway due to lack of time I will just give you one more link http://akzinefest.blogspot.com/
This Zinefest is held in my country yearly, and is a great place to understand the culture and the ideas behind Zines. Yah-wen & myself were lucky enough to win this year's Zine-of-the-year prize, and our Zine is for sale at The high seas gallery

Read Our Zine

 Also I recently created an account at Illustration Mundo which is a very very cool website for illustrators, every illustrator should visit there regularly! So much inspiration!

My Profile

We won the Zinefest award!

(I should've put this up a while ago, its been over two months since the Zinefest... I've just been a bit busy, but here it is.)

Myself and Yah-Wen Ho created a small zine called '1, 2, 3, 4' for the Auckland Zinefest.
We sold out of the zines we had made, and submitted a zine to the competition for Zine of the year. Have you ever heard of a Zine? They are a kind of selfmade publication. In the near future I will try to give some background on what a Zine is, with a little history.

To see the complete Zine '1, 2, 3, 4' jump onto my twitpic page:

http://twitpic.com/2gg308


Anyway, here is a photo of Yah-wen, the force behind Potroast magazine.

This is our stand set up at the Zinefest:

This is myself and our zine, just to give you an idea of what is looks like.

To check out Potroast's facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Potroast/77771782062

FLume

For Potroast Magazine

NZ Birds

A few sketches of some of our beautiful birds here in New Zealand! Please click on the images for a more accurate resolution :)

More experiments - Can you see (or create your own) the story with these pictures?

two doodles

Process - step 2 colour

I'm lazy!!!!!!

But here we go again

Some sketches / doodles/ concepts for paid work ,-D

Some scribbles, turned into T Shirts

bio-diversity

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/bio-diversity/?em

When I have the time

Hey its another day! I'm exhausted from a great two hours at Capoeira, and trying to be highly productive on the latest Sniff page I'm working on. Plus 5 hours of sitting at a desk at work, (good times). A few things: check out Julian Casabancas's website, and his great music, especially the song 11th Dimension, its insanely catchy (just select the song to play on the bottom left corner). I ended up buying the song online at digirama.co.nz - Julian has a Great website design too! Also the the layout of the latest sniff page, I will be showing the process over the next few day I hope. Colour coming soon. And my latest submission to the brilliant zine Potroast, this one is called Begins. Also, I've been reading a very cool called Uncle Ofay's Good-Times Story Corner Adults only content sometimes, and containing some very stimulating thoughts, both visual and thematic. Here

Does That Offend You Yeah? In NZ

Does That Offend You Yeah? In NZ. In Auckland

Aliens

Just for fun...

Turns out I won't be working on this children's book any longer :(

I had been working on a book concept for a story by Maurice Shadbolt, a good NZ author who past away a few years ago. The publisher has decided to go for someone else as artist however, which is disappointing for me as I put a lot of work into characters and concept. I was under the impression it was going to go ahead... Anyway no point moping about it, here are some of my storyboard sketches for the book.... Its about a lonely mountain.

Sniff at cards with a friend

I Haven;t been very productive since starting my new job. But here is a drawing for a page in the Sniff book.

I've been working on a new character design

I haven't included Sniff on this blog yet, but he is part of a fantastic, on-going project with Jacksbooks.

Ascension

A new one for a submission to a student-run magazine..

Harriet's Hair

Harriet's Hair went everywhere... Concept for a children's book by Mike Fitzpatrick

Life Drawing poses