Steve Rack is an Illustrator and the creator of the ToeFluff Character. In April this year, he made an open call to artists all over the world for them to reimagine his Toe fluff character in their own style. All of the drawings from over 200 artists will be exhibited at the Toe Fluff Show from the 30 July - 11 August 2010. Monies raised from the event will go to The Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. The Image above is my entry for the show and is one of those that will be exhbited. More information about the Toe Flufff Show can be gotten here. To view all of the entries click here.
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This drawing is inspired by Lagos Mainland's ubiquitous yellow and black city buses, the daredevil antics of some of the drivers and condctors and also by advertising. It is one of my daily drawings.
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Another one of my daily drawings, this piece can be used as a print for a range of textile applications from wallpapers, table cloths, allover fabric prints and as greeting card art. It is available for licensing. Contact me here if interested.
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I decided to try out creating a freehand portrait after a long while and I ended up with the sketchy, blackline heavy images above. Credits: Black lines: marker and pen. Colour: Photoshop. The colour programme is loose but, I am satisified with it at least for now.
Curvy lines connect on a wooden surface courtesy Poscas(marker). This piece would work great as a pattern design or a standalone tee design.
Stareface with the zippered lip(big face) found his way to cotton canvas and immediately got surrounded by other zipper-mouthed roundish characters in a mass of blackness and tightly woven pattern type lines. Credits: Poscas and spraypaint.
This piece is inspired by the traditional homecoming parades organised in honour of heroes. In this case, the heroes are a bunch of teethy inspired characters caged within a monstery, pattern heavy frame been welcomed by stick figures high on ectasy - not the drug.
This piece, references the Three kings in a geometric spacecraft T shirt I created. It features more lines, blocks of black.
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Process images for the Spindly Gang character set. From pencil sketch to colour
The Spindly gang is a group of unsuitably placed Planteurs employed by the indecisive scientists of the Doubliorganica Preservation Society to engage in recon operations in both enemy and friendly territory with the intent of gathering valuable and not so valuable information about plant life in other to fast track the final stage of the Planteurica destruction + evolution process. I am still working on naming the characters and thinking of how best to represent them. The names for now are: A. Stoned Julien, B. Venetian glassy Judo, C. Thoughtless HoverUs, D. Prophetic Notra, E. Itchy Motormouth, F. Barfing Aarghss. Planteurs live in Planteurica and are a cross between deformed cartoon characters and plants.
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The images below are behind the scene images of the creation process for a SeekProject illustration.
This is the image I scanned in. I worked with markers and pens to achieve this from a pencil sketch base. Unfortunately, I don't have the pencil sketch anymore.
Vector line art. I traced over the image above to achieve this. Trace done with CorelDraw
The finished piece. The image features a clueless character hedged in by serrated typpography, vector flatness, bits of geometry and a barrage of lines exploding from his head in a jack-in-the box manner.
I did this unsolicited composite piece for one of my favourite and most inspiring clothing line at the moment: THE HUNDREDS. This piece features a geometric skateboarder in a mini art nouveau world skating against a backdrop of speakers, warm colors and black lines. Executed in colour and black/white. "THE HUNDREDS IS HUGE. Posted as Unsolicited.
In this piece, nine sick adults look down on a child whose idea of fun is eating chocolates or rather gathering chocolate packs. I decided to add some colour to this piece and I employed a spontaneous colouring style.
My entry for Bombing Science's sketch battle. It features a gradually disintegrating mass of geometric ice being watched by stick figured revellers waiting to collect its remains and possibly auction same on Ebay. One of them actually made it to the top!.
Cloudy Highway wallpaper for the FWA. You can download by following this link: www.thefwa.com/?app=wallpapers&id=279
Done in 2004 for Da Bazement productions, this piece amplifies the level of action and creativity that takes place in the underground hip hop scene. A scene populated by hustlas trying to leave an impression on the worlds consciousness. Complete with graffiti and characters. Surface things are easy, rock with the underground - but keep things personal.
Untitled illustraton done with markers and pens. Its a composite of characters and text.
Nameless girl character created using Illustrator. One of my first Illustrator pieces.
Illustration for the seekproject. Geometry breeds faces, patterns and emotions and sneakers.
Drawings on Styrofoam
Follow up illustration I created for Stefan Bucher's monster blog. The first liiustration was of a long necked character that had a headgear which Stefan observed to be a tinfoil hat. Tinfoil hats have been used in back in the day Sci-fi movies and they are worn by humans to protect aliens from using their thoughts.
Illustration for for Akpo Daniyan's "I have an idea" book launch.
The images below show the creation process from sketch to finished piece of a Christmas card I designed for a motor distributor.
Pencil Sketch
Line Art
Finished piece
The images below show the creation process from sketch to finsihed piece of an unsolicited Illustration for design is kinky, Australia.
Pencil sketch
Line Art
Colour studies
Finished piece
Drawings on a stool. The rationale can be viewed here
Space motif illustration
February 14 card illustration . Inhale, exhale (give love, take love)
Stareface with the exceptional headgear
BOSS recording machine
An imaginary jukebox illustration for MBI (Nigerian tv channel)
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