What you find when you clean out the garage.

Here's some more old,old work from the early eighties.
They were in a small photo album that I knew I had somewhere and found when we had a clean-up
At the time these photos were taken I had just moved away from my home in Forster and relocated in a share accomodation house in Lindfied(Sydney).
I was working as an apprentice signwriter and helping my father out in his panelbeating shop in homebush.
Having some money for the fist time and no one to watch over me I spent it on booze and dope or whatever was going at the time.
But instead of sitting around with the rest of the crew vegging out in front of the telly watching Blankety Blanks I'd sneak off into my room and draw.

This is the result.
Remember this work was done when I was about 18 to 20 something. I think I was a bit screwed up back but I used to opt for creative loneliness rather than stimulating group telly watching.

I call the first one Pencil Head



I think I called this one Sweet Sixteen


I thought this was a masterpeice at the time.
I had a lot of fun drawing all of the menacing characters and the JD bottle was perfect.


This was a favorite character out of mine from the old heavy metal magazines "Ran Xerox" he was a half human half robot type with an anger management problem. For some reason I related to him.


And last but not least one of my first commissions from a biker friend called "Duke"
This drawing depicts Duke in his backyard happily walking around on his hands because his body has been torn in half. He's just taking a leisurely stroll through the graveyard out the back with his friends.
He thought it was a good drawing but a bit too evil.