"CAN'T YOU EVER DRAW SOMETHING NICE...?"If you're gonna go around blowin' bubbles... be prepared to get a little gum on your face.
In early February, I showed my wonderful and beautiful Mum some of my more recent illustrations. Always the proud mother, she heaped me with praise but concluded with "Can't you ever draw something nice...?". Which I think you'll find is a fairly common reaction from any mother towards the art of her socially-rebellious children. My reaction... to dust-off and complete a "nice" illustration I hadn't finished, from some faraway and forgotten sketchbook. Every drawer, illustrator and artist I know has these. The unfinished ideas. Some great and other's very-very not-great. I always kinda liked this creepy manchild with his bubblegum. It seems innocent. Non-caring. Daring and brave. So I went back to my Mum and showed her my bubble-blower. To which she replied "...gross".    KEEP IT KREEPY - LEANER, GREENER & MEANER
So I went back (iiiiiin tiiiiiime) and revistited one of my older pieces, the Tiki-kreep.
The four-eyed skull-screaming aggressive-jerk was a real favourite of mine. A real keeper. And I wanted some fresh eyes to play around with him, you know, take him to the park and let him get a little dirty. So I did exactly that. And the end result is that he's leaner, greener and hell of a lot meaner. Available for sale from my Society6 store.     SURFER DUDE!This piece is available for sale from Society 6 on stretched canvas with various framing options.
Including iPhone cases, laptop covers and t-shirts. Surfs up!      DEATH MMXIII've recently made my first ever submission to online art-empire Society6.
The title of my design is 'DEATH MMXII' and represents the forever-ness of death. Once we fade to black, our legacy is all that remains... how will you be remembered? The design is available as an art prints of various impressive-sizes with various framing options. It's also available as an iPhone case, Laptop skin, t-shirts and hoodies of all sizes. Just head to: www.society6.com/sindysinn/DEATH-MMXII_Print  J4 MUSIC & COMPOSITIONSo from one of my recent little promotional-efforts came a very talented man and new-friend... John Rowles.
John Rowles is the owner operator of J4 Music & Composition, which produces genre-specific melodies and scoring for all kinds of messages and medias. One of the things that fascinated me the most (besides his various awards and credits) was that he plays ALL the instruments himself. John mentioned that we share the same favourite-cartoons, so the artwork had to have some 'craziness' with just a snippet of elegance. John's a nice guy with some great work, I strongly suggest you check it out. He's promised me he's going to send me a photo of this when it's framed on his studio wall...  400KW 'BAD LIES, WORSE TRUTHS' ALBUM COVER
My good friends of 400kw approached me about the cover-artwork for their new album 'BAD LIES, WORSE TRUTHS'.
They've recently finished recording a turbo-charged full-length and needed an illustrated bombhead to tie it all together. I'll have some tour dates to announce for you soon, in the meantime, check this sucker out...  GLITTER CANYON ILLUSTRATIONMy good friends of Glitter Canyon approached me about doing an illustration for them.
They wanted something simple yet crazy, with it to include each member of the band. I have no doubt that you'll be seeing this wrapped around every street pole in Sydney.  DEATH - MELODY BLACK & VIRGINIA KILLSTYXX POSTER
Some new artwork I created for an upcoming show, right here in my hometown of Sydney.
Melody Black are taking over Newtown's Sandringham Hotel, with special guests Virginia Killstyxx and The Mercy Kills. Gonna be a great night if you love the darker side of rock n roll.  $50 ILLUSTRATED BAND POSTERSFor a limited time, I'm offering custom-made illustrated band posters for $50.
Payment is via PayPal on my STORE and I'll have the artwork to you as soon as possible. Obviously, I'll be in touch throughout the process to make sure I have all the details and information I need. Once it's all done I'll send you every file-format you could possibly need to promote your show properly. Email me any questions you might have, I'm happy to help. Poster-party at your place.  CLOWNIN' AROUNDI love clowning around. Life is too short to take everything super-serious.
I'd say "sorry" for it, but we both know I wouldn't mean it... Birth, Fun, Death.  PORTRAIT: DWIGHT K SCHRUTE
Dwight K Schrute is the top salesman and former-acting manager for the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
His hobbies include paintball, Battestar Galactica, ping pong, survivalism, Goju Ryu karate and weapons. I'm actually a pretty massive fan of Rainn Wilson in general, pretty funny dude with an A++ Twitter account.  BEDTIMEOk so you may recall that I recently blogged about my trip to Melbourne (if not, it's cool... you'll catch up). My beautiful girlfriend Kate and I stayed at the Grand Mecure on Swanston Street the weekend before last. It was a great trip, checked out lots of rad stuff and got out ‘n about crazy old Melbourne town, which is always fun.
One of the more memorable parts of our weekend took place in our hotel room one evening. It was Friday night and Kate wakes me up at about 2am going “Sindy Sindy, can you hear that...!?”. As expected, I was a little slow to focus my senses... but as everything slowly came together, I’ve realised that the couple in the room next to ours was going at it. I’m not sure which clues triggered my inherent detective-skills, but I’m pretty sure it was the fact that the walls were shaking and the constant “OH!”-ing. Being the mature adults that we are, we spent the next 20 minutes giggling. ...however, the noises didn’t stop. The shared-wall banging and the “is she being murdered?” spine-tingling screams... went for hours. Our muted-giggles slowly faded, as we impatiently waited for them to stop.  The next day we started hearing the slaughter-noises again, this time after lunch. This couple was relentless. Anyway so we exhaustedly alerted the hotel reception of our sleep-stealing experience, threatening to deal with the problem ourselves if the noise continued the next night. The hotel apologised for the disturbance and said they would tastefully approach the dilemma. On the way home from dinner, Kate and I purchased a packet of five fart bombs. To our now-prepared disappointment, there was complete silence the following night. The above illustration was drawn on Sunday afternoon at the airport, after a perfect night’s sleep. THANKS FOR THE SHOUT-OUTSIt's a super-massive compliment to know that people are seeing and reacting to my craptastic-art.
So I'd like to seize (yarr!) this opportunity to thank and make a shout-out to two very superbly mega-awesome websites. The first is Illustration Age, who's Marc Scheff posted my 'KEEP IT KREEPY' artwork to their inspirational blog. Illustration Age is a regularly updated resource that's awesome for checking out what's going on in illustration-land. I couldn't be more honoured to finally have a piece of my work featured on the site...  The second website is by a very good friend of mine Reese, who featured me and my 'CHEER UP' piece on her beauty-blog called Tropic Of Beauty. Her themed posts show incredibly creative ways of creating themed-looks, more recently based on Disney characters. She's also a hardcore Twitter fiend, so jam over and follow her if this sounds up your alley. She's a crazy bag of laugh and a half.  HALLOWEEN COSTUME 2011
Ummm ok, let's not muck around... I love halloween.
Here's my Top 5 reasons why:
My costume this year was relatively improvised, armed with black and white face-paint and a massive bottle of fake-blood.
And here are some shots of the terrifying monster I became...  SPREAD YOUR WINGS
Gil Stern once said "...optimists invented the airplane and pessimists the parachute".
Anyway, as you can see here I've drawn a skull with wings. Take THAT stupid Gil Stern!  
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