As regular visitors to this blog will know, I’m a fan of using a pun (or two) as the title for blog posts.

Not necessarily a rubbish (verb) illustration, but a rubbish (noun) illustration in the shape of a world map, commissioned by FHM for an article on waste disposal around the planet.

This illustration was created using the wonderful (and free) 3D graphics program Google SketchUp.

These contributor portraits were completed for Men’s Fitness magazine for a feature on Happiness (see the previous post for more info.)

The reference photos for each author differed vastly in quality, so the consistent line-art style and colour helped to unify them throughout the story.

The lovely folks at Australian Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me to do some drop-in illustrations for a feature story on ‘Happiness’.

The brief was to create line-art illustrations of a man in a suit meditating, a dog chasing its tail and a football/soccer player scoring a goal.

As much as I would like to be a) and c), anyone who runs their own business will tell you that a lot of time is spent in situation b).

Not a quintet of pop singers, but five gentlemen writing about the joy of drinking alcoholic beverages for FHM’s November 2009 issue.

They are (R-L): Yves Klein Blue singer Michael Tomlinson, radio DJ and pub owner Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross, surfie-chef dude Ben O’Donoghue, former FHM-editor and freelance writer Ben Smithurst, FHM deputy editor Daniel Murphy.

In May I was commissioned to illustrate FHM’s ‘ultimate lounge room’.

The brief was to combine all of the advertiser products (flat screen TV, blu-ray, laptop, beer cooler and lounge chair) into a single image.

I used a Google Sketchup model for the interior and Ben – FHM Australia’s editor at the time – volunteered to be the beer drinking model.

A parasite that exists in real-life could lead to the Zombie apocalypse, according to FHM Australia.

The parasite is called toxoplasma gondii. When a host (usually small mammals such as rats and mice) become infected, the parasite can change the behaviour of their brain, causing them be drawn to (rather than fearful) of cats. The twist? The parasite is able to reproduce if its host is eaten by a cat.

Rather than medical diagrams I tried to take a more conceptual approach to this illustration. A pair of zombie hands emerge from the fictional reality of the television into our real world…

Here’s an infographic I recently completed for FHM Australia.

The size of the circle represents where a shark is likely to attack you. According to the article sharks don’t actually like the taste of human beings (if they did “it would not be safe to go into the water at all”). For some reason that doesn’t make me feel any safer…

Check out the January ’09 issue of FHM Australia (on sale December 1) for the full story.

An illustration for an upcoming story in FHM about websites that allow people to post defamatory comments online

I will upload a scan of the full story once the magazine its newsstands in December.

[Update: read the article here.]

This illustration is a parody of an Australian television program called Hole in the Wall.

Based on a Japanese game show, Hole in the Wall requires celebrity contestants to fit through holes in a styrofoam wall moving towards them.

The results are often hilarious. Here’s a video clip of the original (and best) Japanese version:

This illustration was commissioned for an article in FHM on so called ‘smart bombs’.

According to New Scientist magazine, the US air force is trying to develop a cluster weapon that would release a swarm of ‘bomblets’ – each identifying and pursuing an individual target.

The question is: how would this weapon distinguish between combatants and civilians? As I tried to show in this illustration a simple red cross can be interpreted as a field target or a field hospital.

You can read the original – and frankly alarming – New Scientist article here.