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About Me

Living for moments. I dig illustration, typically in pen and ink. I tell simple stories in single frame moments, like photographs but without the reality. I like to capture awkwardness for its truth and beauty. I dream of escape but stop to question why I do. I love sushi. I say too much. I get a lot more out of your laughter then you do. I live my life through these hands; the wheels for my craft, my expression, my communication and my resolution. I'm working on a graphic novel with a good friend. It's going to be awesome. Hope you find something you like.

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My Interests

Graphite, ink, Music, words and images. Drawing, Hiding, Drawing, Shortcuts, Drawing, Going to shows. Laughter. Drinking in the afternoon sun. Stalking bands. Drinking tea after a big night out. Old school Sega. Kicking it with the people that matter to me. Tidbits. Stretching my brain out with quasi-philosophical methods of representing time and image, while drunk. Arguing purpose, Stretching and cracking my back. Dancing like an idiot, mouthing the words like I know them.

I'd like to meet:

Aspiring illustrators. People who's ideas speak beyond words and pictures. People to party with. Someone who kicks arse and doesn't know it already. Original and interesting people. The tragically romantic and the romantically tragic.

Music:

Radiohead/Pavement/Stephen Malkmus/ Built To Spill/ The Halo Benders / Les Savy Fav/ Modest Mouse/ Animal Collective/ Magnetic Fields/ Blur/ Beat Happening/ Beck/ Bright Eyes/ Broken Social Scene/ The Go Betweens/ Sunset Rubdown/ Sleater-Kinney/Grant Lee Buffalo / Preston School of Industry / The Hives / Pernice Brothers / Iron & Wine/ Hendrix / Jeff Buckley/ Leonard Cohen/ Panda Bear / Pulp / The Raveonettes / Erik Satie / The Shins / Wang Chung/ Ugly Cassanova/ Clientelle / British Sea Power / Clap your Hands Say Yeah / Art Brut / The Hold Steady / Thunderbirds are now! / Silver Jews / TransAm/ Clinic / Treepeople / Decemberists / Arcade Fire / The Unicorns / The Double / Iggy Pop / Kate Bush / Neutral Milk Hotel / Sigur Ros / Ween / Weezer / Tom Jones (Spoken word) / Calvin Johnson/ Jens Lekmann/ The Grates/ The New Pornographers/ Amazing Phillips Sisters/ Beulah / Blondie / Graham Coxon/ The Grates / Jack Ladder/ Baseball / Jose Gonzales / Plastic Constellations/ Danielson/ The Islands / Test Icicles / Deerhoof / Of Montral/ Blonde Redhead/ Caribou/ The Japancakes/ Band of Horses to name a few..

Movies:

Old school chevy chase. John Hughes shit; The breakfast club; Molly Ringwald WAS hot, so fuck you for judging.

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Anything that's just as funny the morning after. Orignality without being overblown. Too many to name.

Television:

70s show. Spicks and specks. Wilfred. South Park. Northern Exposure (fuck you) Documenataries on twin cubs and/or the pyramids. both versions of the office. Extras. Family guy, Wonder Showzen, Colbert Report and Daily Show are all shows that should be on TV over here, but aren't. Shit ads featuring Hat head or oversized chewing gum. The chaser's war on everything. Old school MTV cartoons like the Maxx and Robin and friends. Oh and Iron Chef. Amazing.

Books:

Truthfully, anything with drawings. Clowes. Hanuka. Tomine, to name a few. Seems pretty light on, but you have no idea what I get out of what these people put in.

Heroes:

My Family, My rad girlfriend, My awesome counterheart, My friends. All those artists; Tomer Hanuka, Chris Gardner, Jeff Kleinsmith, Jesse LeDoux, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, James Jeans to name a few. Dave Berman.

My Blog

That guy draws: Happy birthday Lisa

Well, internationally, it's the 26th of September, which mainly means one thing for me, my best friend Lisa's birthday, so to make up for my absence in the rainy city of Seattle (well, it's fall over ...
Posted by Guy on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:10:00 PST

That guy draws: Carpe Denim

Well, I'm back for god knows how long, but the mad AFL Grand Final rush is over, along with the bumper 96-page edition of MAG, which went to print in the shallow hours of Monday evening this week. Tha...
Posted by Guy on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:02:00 PST

That guy draws: VicHealth Cover

Discrimination is still a major problem in Australia, in particular ethnic opportunities. So when the good folk at VicHealth magazine, a quarterly Victorian publication approached me about doing a co...
Posted by Guy on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:20:00 PST

That guy draws: August Sketchbook

A while between posts, but with a few major projects on, I haven't had much time to write. First things firsts. Kudos to Melbourne artists Chloe Vallance, for having one of the most inspiring collect...
Posted by Guy on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:29:00 PST

That guy draws: The Rebels Not In.

Another week gone by with very little update, so here's another recently completed piece, aptly entitled "The Rebels Not In". This one is inspired by the Halo Benders, the sonic combination of indie o...
Posted by Guy on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST

That guy draws: Aphrodite (viewer discresion advised)

Well, It's almost 2am, and I can't really sleep. So I thought I'd post this one as it's one from the bedroom. Not really my own. This one is something more of a practice piece. Not everything can be a...
Posted by Guy on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:59:00 PST

That guy draws: Liz vs Sodoku

Ahh, winter time is here.My girlfriend and I have most of our weeknights sorted. I draw, she does Sodoku. Yeah, we're hardly the libertines, but they're both kinda guilty pleasures for us, and a nice ...
Posted by Guy on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:30:00 PST

That guy draws: Untitled Graphic Novel Pt 2, Page 1

As promised, here's some more work. For those who have been following this for a while, you know I've been working on this graphic novel for just over a year now (7 pages in that time is no great rate...
Posted by Guy on Mon, 28 May 2007 03:12:00 PST

That guy draws: Hands

Well, it goes without saying that the last few months have been charged with their ups and downs, but one thing if hasn't been free of, is drawing. So I'm hoping to initiate (starting with this), a mo...
Posted by Guy on Sun, 27 May 2007 03:53:00 PST

That guy draws: Glenn Archer

Footy's back. Footy's back. What's that mean? It means I'm warp-factor-9 kinda busy, so there's my excuse for the little-to-no updates lately. Here's an attempt to make up for it.Glenn archer is consi...
Posted by Guy on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:57:00 PST