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Monday, 4 April 2016

Brand New Website

Well, its happened. my website has now been replaced with a brand new design and one that will make it easier for me to keep up to date with new work without the hassles that the old design presented itself.

To see this new and improved website just go to http://scottbalmer.co.uk to see it in action.

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Pixel Hearts Art Show - Gallery 1988

And here is my final piece for Chogrin's Pixel Hearts Art show which opens its doors this Friday.

As the name suggests this artwork featured on a heart shape made of wood.

More about the show and other participating pieces can be seen on the Pixel Hearts Tumblr below:

http://pixelheartsart.tumblr.com/

Thursday, 12 November 2015

25th Anniversary of the release of Super Mario World

Here's a pece I made to Celebrate the 25th release of Super Mario World for the Super Famicom. It's a fun little illustration which is also available to buy as a print with the option of a custom frame direct form Level Frames:

https://www.levelframes.com/collections/scott-balmer-collection/super-mario-world

There's also a write-up on how this piece came to be at Things to Do in LA:

http://www.ttdila.com/2015/11/exclusive-super-mario-world-by-scott.html

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

WIN one of my Heroic Instruments Posters with Things To Do in LA

Things To Do in LA are giving away 3 of my Heroic Instruments posters from Fangamer in a nice little competition over this festive season.

So how do I get my hands on those marvellous posters? all you need to do is make a zelda themed wrapping paper and send it over to the email address below:

conteststtdila (at) gmail.com

with the subject being

Legend of Zelda wrapping paper

include your full name, age and address

but hurry cause the deadline is the 30th of December so get scribbling away on the amazing and fantastical quest that Hyrule has to offer.

another thing to note is that this comp is only open to residents in the US.

To find out more go to http://www.ttdila.com/2013/12/zelda-wrapping-paper-contest-for-heroic.html

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Feathers Show opens its doors this week

Here's something fun and light hearted for those who used to draw (or still do) Dinosaurs large and small, winged or fanged and the simple or the more exotic looking creatures.

The show features 24 Artists/Illustrators/Designers invited to relive their childhood in creating a piece in homage to the majestic beasts that once roamed this earth.

You Byun and myself as well.

The Exhibition is being held at the Gallery 33 in Amsterdam and starts this friday the 25th of October and runs until the 6th of January.

So if you are in, near or going to Amsterdam in that timeline then its worth taking a trip down memory lane and marvelling at the Artwork put on show which should be one great show not to miss.

More can be found about both the show and the Artists through the gallery 33 teaser page:

http://gallery33.net/feathers_artists.html#lazslito-kovacs

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Not For Rental show VHS cover illustration

Here's my contribution to the Not For Rental show which was held at Gallery 71A in London.

A movie inspired show where the artwork was shown in the old school VHS cases to recreate that feeling of going into an old video rental shop.

the trick though was that you couldn't mention the movie on the front or the side as to give that sense of discovery while perusing the shelfs.

I based mine on the old classic Total Recall after spending so much time debating on which film to represent.

For the Love of Waves

I made this piece for an M & C Saatchi project they were doing with the charity Surfers Against Sewage in which they wanted a poster designed based around the wording 'for the love of waves'.

Sunday, 12 May 2013

inkygoodness Beermat Character

Seems like this was done ages ago but what you see above is a lino print that i had made for inkygoodness' beermat character exhibition which was held in London not too long ago.

The general idea involved here was to produce the work onto a beermat which did have some challenges due to its scale.

But because of this using a more hands on approach seemed to be the best COA and so when with a combination of using paint, a lino print and some posca pens for added effect.

Great fun and its got me thinking about maybe doing some more hands on type of work to mix things up a bit.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Godzilla

Made this piece for this months silver Screen Society's How did this get Made celebrating their two year anniversary.

Silver Screen Society

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Majestic Landscape

Make this for fun.

Alternate Ending Piece - Well Give the Man a Hand!

Been meaning to put this piece up that i had done for the Silver Screen Society's Alternate Ending show at the Bottleneck Gallery in NYC.

Anyway here's my take on an alternate ending for Robocop while instead of trying to kill each other, Clarence decides to throw Robo a surprise party at the old steel mill instead.

Initially the plan was to make this all in the form of pixel art kind of like aping the arcade game released at the time but this changed after finishing the "I'd buy that for a Dollar' guy as it would take some time to make and that i'm still a bit new to the pixel art scene.

Personally I think that going in the direction above has actually worked better with its light hearted and playful nature.

Monday, 29 October 2012

Tee Design for Made in the Now

I've designed a Tee for the good folks at Made in the Now which pits designers/illustrators to design a T shirt based around the popular current events that happened in the news that week.

This T shirt is only available for limited time, 7 days to be exact so get in there.

http://www.madeinthenow.com/shirt/380.html

Monday, 17 September 2012

And now, its mario's turn

Just as with the zelda items piece, this is based around the items/enemies featured in the mario universe.

(update March 2017) it's been over a year since these wallpapers were removed from my website, seems like it was not that long ago when I made this piece back in 2012 which gave it a run of about 4 years of being available to adorn numerous desktop and smart phone screens as a nice background.

I'm glad that there were people who enjoyed using these wallpapers as their desktop/phone backgrounds and I appreciate that.

Though these wallpapers are never coming back, mostly due to their age but also (and largely) due to the people who thought it was a good idea to steal my work and sell it on whatever product they thought would make a quick buck.

All in all, it had a good run and if you are still using my wallpaper as your desktop/phone background I hope you still enjoy it.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Digital Artist Magazine

About a month ago i was contacted on doing a short tutorial on making simple stylised clouds, since this would be my very first time of actually making a tutorial it seemed like something i could not pass on.

The illo above was the end result in where I wanted the clouds to act in a more magical/mythical kind of setting. Basically it was just me having fun.

This tutorial and more is in the latest issue of digital artist magazine available to buy now at your local newsagent or other places (including newsstand).

shredder

I've had this idea in my head of a few days now and have only gotten around to actually making it. Its a personal editorial piece which i've kind of based around the discarding of information and how someone lurking in the shadows could use it.

I think it was loosely based around a few security articles i had read recently, one of which was about previous owner's info that was found on their old Hard Drives they were selling, and about the awareness that this info could fall into the wrong hands.