Mr Blue Sky...

So, no sooner are the Christmas banners up that it's time for the
Spring banners to replace them...

Fortunate enough to photograph them on a day that reflected the 'blue sky' feel I was aiming for with the designs... 

And during the cold winter days while I was working on these 'Mr Blue Sky' on a loop was a great source of inspiration. I should probably post my 'Sunshine' playlist along with this.

Hope you like :)

New Tees, New Tees, New Tees..!

Finally - the long promised Bonehead Tee has arrived - order being taken now for Halloween delivery date.

Design shown here but be sure to visit my site and check out the hoodies too!

'boneheadtees shop'

A few tees and things that i've put out recently...

The red one is for a computer games competition in Dundee called 'Dare' - the other stuff is all available for sale in the shop!

...except for the hoodie which is a sample of a set that i'm going to get done a bit later in the year.

The Badge is from the Vile Evils set that's available in the badge section of the shop.

Go. buy. now!

New website under construction...

I'm in the process of bringing my various projects together in a way that, hopefully, gives them equal exposure without being confusing for my visitors.

The day to day graphics side is the 'jongill.co.uk' and 'gilaGraphics.co.uk' side of things. Then the slightly mor off the wall and 'what-ever-i-want' bit comes under 'industrialbubblegum.com' 

Finally, the new bit is the ever expanding 'boneheadtees.co.uk' where i'll be selling tees, hoodies and maybe a hat or two.

That's the plan.

So, you can see the beginnings of the new site at 'www.gilaGraphics.co.uk/new'

Any comments gratefully received..!

Ta

Daisy, Daisy...

Ahh! I love this kind of thing. I'll never be happy until i've done an action figure/toy of some sort but this is getting close...

Daisy is the new mascot for the DUNCAN scheme in Dundee. We already have 'Duncan' but we felt there was a gap in our market for a 'wee' sister. So, Daisy was 'born'!

The original visualisation sketch, final illustration and suit are all documented here.

DUNCAN was designed in 2002 and then became a suit in 2005. Last year I became 'Duncan' for the day at the local Gala day which was good fun - and oddly liberating..!

Daisy was designed in March and we've been eagerly awaiting her arrival ever since.

I bought 'Pete's Dragon' on DVD for my daughter last year, which she now loves, and I think she's quite impressed that daddy has a dragon of his own, although on the occasions that she's had to meet him she politely declines, screams, runs off!

She did, however, contribute to the design of Daisy. Originally I was going to put big chunky trainers on Daisy (like the Tweenies - who were made by the same people who kindly made Daisy for us!) but I also liked Duncans big green chunky feet. So without mentioning any of this to my daughter I just asked what we should put on her feet and without a moments thought she just said 'pink sandles'! So i, kind of, got the best of both worlds!

Anyway, hope you like my little family of dragons - you can see more at DUNCAN and Little and Lost.

No blogs for a while - mixture of busy-ness and lethargy...

Well, i'm breaking the run with something that, for me, is very cool!

I'm sure this is a lot more interesting to me than for anyone else - as is most of this blog I 'spose - but particularly this post...

I've been selling a few tees as you may know, and now, it seems we've come full circle.

One of the reasons I do what I do is because I always loved comics, so i'd copy the pictures, which eventually morphed into me making up my own stuff, then selling it on, and now someone has lifted one of my ideas and put it in a comic! Yay!!

It's the dude on the right wearing one of my shirts...

I don't know much about this other than it's a Canadian artist who bought one of my shirts - i'll add more as it comes!

Cool

Interestingly, there are still a few of those very same shirts available for purchase...

//gila out

New tee design decided...

Twilight Bones will be the new gilaSkin to be released.

More news, shirt and print colours, how much, where and when... very soon!

Backprint, if any, to be decided...

It's not all Tshirts...

Well, what else have I been up to?

I regularly visit a blog by an illustrator call Rob Dunlavey. He had a link to Salomon's Snowboard design competition. I haven't entered a design competition in years so thought i'd have a go. There was less than 48 hours to the comp ending (and even I need to sleep now and then) so i used stuff I had to hand. You may recognise it! 

See what you think.

Stop the Press! Salomon have extended the entry date by a week! Get your submissions in by 8 March, 2008...