Zelda items wallpaper and more.

Anyone who follows me on twitter may of seen the bit of spring cleaning with a new avatar and background based on the piece above.

(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.

Roller Skates

A personal piece done in the same way as the owl.

goat (unpublished)

an unused image, bit hard to read in places but still a fun little piece

Owl

Made this for this years FarmFestival.

www.farmfestival.co.uk/

This handsome chappy will be also appearing on T shirts which should be available soon.

So You Created A Wormhole... Group Show

 

Come one and all to the show 'So You Created A Wormhole' Curated by the nice folks at iam8bit and held in Sunny LA.

Celebrating the launch of the new book 'So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel' by Mr. Phil Hornshaw & Mr. Nick Hurwitch (published by Berkley/Penguin).

The show opens this Friday (the 13th I might add for those with some superstition oooooo.) 

With the likes of Jack Huson, Scott C, Jesse Balmer, Lisa Hanawalt and myself as well as some few surprises along the way. 

its going to be ace. 

http://iam8bit.com/the-gallery/time-travel/

so if your in LA (or going there) then pop in and see wonders of time and space that awaits you.

iPhone/iPad wallpapers now available from poogla

When I was thinking about what work to use as iPhone or iPad wallpapers for poolga and since I always like creating new things instead of sifting through pieces which could work as an iPhone wallpaper (besides, its better that the imagery is tailor made for the different formats rather than trying to find something that fits.) So both pieces where made with the iPad in mind while also considering the crop factor for the iPhone versions.

Since poolga were asking for the illustrations to at least have some sort of theme linking both works together, I had in the back of my mind of doing a fantasy/reality themed piece which just seemed the perfect match to base these wallpapers on. 

Conceptually, I wanted the figure to inherit the same stance while things like clothing, surroundings and the overall mood of the piece changes. its kind of like looking inside the character's head in that he sees himself as this battle scared warrior clutching his prized (and unusual) instrument when in reality he is some guy standing in broad daylight clutching a tablet.

talking about the wooden instrument, the idea there was to base on some form of mythical music device in looks but its more of an homage to the ocarina and funnily enough, on the reality side, there are actually quite a few ocarina apps so the tablet seemed to be a perfect fit.

Anyway both wallpapers are available for iPhone, iphone4 and iPad and can be downloaded from the poolga website.

Stoner Bat

made this for Matthew the Horse and Jon Boam's Spirit of the Animal project blog.

spiritoftheanimal.tumblr.com/

Privacy

just felt like creating a personal illustration based on a more editorial-esque manner.

this is loosely based around the notion of internet privacy, with more and more people sharing things on social networks private or otherwise. This image depicts a tablet as a window with the viewer pinching open the blinds in an anonymous fashion kind of like a nosey neighbour watching whats going on.

Its a bit cheeky but also a lot of fun, i think i might venture with some more experimentation with photos within my work.

Brand Spanking New Website

This has been something which was long overdue, but now i present to you the new and improved website full of new work and a slimmer design.

Plus it should be easy as pie to update :)

http://scottbalmer.co.uk

And not only has the website been updated, i have also added an new online store to buy prints and other things of my work. Right now there are only a few things available but this will grow over time.

go here if you want to go directly to the store:

http://scottbalmer.bigcartel.com

illostribute: a tribute to David Klein

Here's my contribute to the latest illostribute tribute.

This time its the fantastic works of David Klein.

I was really drawn in to the wealth of expressive and varied travel posters that Klein had produced in his lifetime. I was debating on whether to recreate the rome one which focused more on buildings or the greece one which all the mythos captured so colourfully.

well i ended up doing the image above. had a really good time trying to capture the essence of Klein's piece.

illostribute.com/2011/04/david-klein/

Some work from Hylozoism exhibition

The Hylozoism show is coming to an end (ends this week on the 27th so there's still time to see the works of both Jake Blanchard and myself) so here are a few pieces which appeared in the show.

inkygoodness character totem

done this piece above to make up for not being able to paint on the actual totems that inkgoodness were sending off to the Pictoplasma exhibition currently being held in Berlin.

anyway, had fun playing about with this one though.

Hylozoism Exhibition opens this thursday

I've teamed up with Jake Blanchard for this joint exhibition Hylozoism. A journey of ancient majestic tribes, beasts and even the odd artefact or two.

As stated the opening night is this thursday so if your in the London area your more than welcome to join us on this expedition of a cosmic kind. but fret not the exhibition is going to be running for five weeks and all work is up for sale.

here's a facebook page for more info

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201886083163980

intergalactic protect-zoids

This was done for society6's SuperHeroes San Fran exhibition and is available to buy not only as a print but also as a laptop/iphone/ipad skin for here:

http://www.society6.com/studio/scottbalmer/Superheroes_SF

uneasy rider

what s it about this time of year that i draw severed things.

owl laser cut for NB studio

This laser-cut was done for NB studio's This Year 2011 promo.

A set of limited edition laser-cuts, based loosely around what will happen this year, in this case, the cuts in 2011 will us sharper.

these limited edition cuts were laser-cut on 10" x 8" 350gsm Colorplan.

i initially came up with the concept while playing around with a pair of fold up scissors, after i started doing roughs of birds with the scissors acting as their facial features, even experimented with different types of scissors and how they could relate to a species of bird.

In the end, the fold away scissors offered the most flexibility in how they could be manipulated into various different forms which lead me to create the owl after working around the scissors.

here's the original vector of this owl before being burnt onto paper

illostribute: A tribute to Earl Oliver Hurst

illostribute has just put up its 4th tribute post, this time paying tribute to Earl Oliver Hurst and his stunning body of work.

Above is my tribute piece to Hurst which, while looking for the potential candidate to base the tribute on. This one caught my eye with the subject matter being placed further away rather than the up close and personal subjects that feature in most of hurst's work.

This post has some really great tributes created by the likes of Ben Newman, Curt Melo, Cesar Barcelo, Gabriel Corbera and of course, illostribute's founder Toby Than Neighbors.

BusinessWeek Christmas Characters

Looks like its safe to post about this commission now that i've seen it on their website. These festive characters were created for BusinessWeek US magazine to be in a feature about business books which you can basically wing it and get away scot free without reading a single page.

The brief was to design 8-9 characters at the christmas office party interacting with each other but also made independently so that the layout guy can play about with where to position them in the feature. There were also some props such as holly and mistletoe to be designed as well, which was to be used to decorate the page.

These guys didn't take long to create which was a good thing considering that i was only given a few days from rough to finals, but it was all in good fun.

here's a few more images focusing on individual characters.

More of this project can be seen on my flickr account.

Computer Arts 2011 Calendar

Another bit of news and another calendar featuring one of my illustrations.

This time, its for Computer Arts 2011 Calendar which comes with the December issue and is out now.

Play Calendar

It feels that this was done an eon ago, it was around about june that I was contacted to see if I would be interested in doing an illustration for the Play! calendar which was being produced by the folks at Eiga Design in Germany.

After the piece above was done, all i knew as that the calendar would be released later in the year. Time passed and i Had forgotten about this until that email pinged in my inbox showing links to the finished product.

the calendar/book is a really nice piece of work lovingly put together and is well worth a look.

I've only got 2 links on where to order this. (one from amazon.de and another outlet) if you are interested:

www.nbvd.de/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=25

www.amazon.de/Play-Design-Kids-Henning-Otto/dp/3939028215/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287647068&sr=8-2