Feel the burn! A series of gym exercise illustrations for Australian FHM magazine.

As anyone who sits at a desk all day knows (myself included), lower back pain is always hovering in the background like an annoying boss.

This illustration for Australian Men’s Fitness shows how to stretch those all important hip flexors to reduce the risk of lower back pain.

Commissioned for Shape magazine Australia. these illustrations show a women’s fitness workout that can be done at home.

The brief was for a more suggestive illustration style, and I really like the effect of the looser line-work. It somehow feels a bit ‘friendlier’ than a lot of my more technical fitness illustrations.

Running technique illustration for Australian Men’s Fitness magazine.

This appeared as two different illustrations in print, but I’ve combined them here. It’s always fun playing with halftone dots to get that old school print effect.

And for those kids of the ’90s, please don’t sweat the technique.

While doing research for this illustration I came across an old copy of the Illustrated History of Golf, which I found for the bargain price of $1 in a second-hand bookstore on Oxford St, Sydney.

The book is filled with old black and white photos of golfers wearing the most amazing outfits to keep warm during the freezing Scottish weather. The clothes in those photos served as perfect inspiration for my golfer below.

I wasn’t 100% happy with the illustrations I submitted to FHM Australia (which were on a white background). While preparing the images for this post I added a paper texture, which seems to suit the subject matter much better.

These illustrations were completed for a gym glossary feature for Men’s Fitness Australia.

Bench, aerobic exercise, anatomy, dumbells, delts…

Even when you’re pumping iron you gotta be down with the lingo.

These illustrations were for an FHM guide to Jamie Durie‘s fitness regime. (Manpower moves not included.)

[Update - 5 July 2010 - Click here for a jpg of the 'Jamie Durie Guide to Hotel Fitness' article from FHM Australia]