MISFITS UNITE - A collection Of Pencil Drawings

It has been a little while between drinks for us here in IMOK Land, but we are happy to announce that we will be showing some brand new pencil & graphite drawings at the Melbourne Art & Design Pop Up Market in Prahran on Saturday November 5th.

You will get to view and/or purchase the original A3 size drawings framed. Titled "Misfits Unite" the drawings are twisted, disturbed and sometimes cute characters that come from our creative minds. Each drawing tells a story...but it is one that the viewer will have to determine all on their own.

These are just a sneak peek of our collection.

Stay tuned for the release of a limited edition Iphone 4 cover featuring one of these designs.

Can't wait to share what we have created with you :)

http://www.popupmarkets.com.au/

The Sookie Chronicles....the latest installment

We last left Sookie and her brave adventurers searching for The Magic Chicken Balloons that they were certain had been taken by the evil Lock Monster King Crostosti... do they come across this precious possession?












Will Duffly ever be able to speak again? You wont have to wait too long to find out!

Sookie Chronicles. The Story begins...

Welcome to the very first look at our latest artist journey, The Sookie Chronicles. With the painting of this series a story seemed to unfold before our very eyes. So we decided to create a comic of sorts, this is going to be revealed over the coming weeks so please check back each week to get the next installment. ENJOY........

TO BE CONTINUED......

Launching our new Website!

Starting this new year with a bang! As we mentioned in our 2010 wrap up, we have been closing our doors and going into our mad scientist mode to ensure our new website be completed for early 2011. We are pleased to report that the time has finally arrived!! Our new face of IMOK has emerged, lighter, brighter and more focused than ever. Within this exciting new site everyone can get plenty of IMOK goodness! Find out about current events on our HOME page through our easy to identify character symbols.

Meet,


Posty the Post It – he is “pinned like a tail on a donkey” to remind you of current IMOK events that you need to scribble in your diary!! What a reliable but at times silly friend.

Painty The Paintbrush – Constantly brushing through, around, up and down…. this shy little guy has a superior creative side that holds no bounds. Dripping paint from his brush hairs, he’ll be sure to not let you forget about any IMOK exhibitions coming up!!

Rickety the Rocket – Buzzing with turbo energy, Rickety has a hard time staying grounded! Wanting to shoot up into space, flying through the air at record speed – Rickety is our explosive LAUNCH rocket….! His part is telling everyone about any launches that are to do with IMOK!!



Also appearing for the first time is our very own “IMOK Shopping Cart” where you can get a variety of our merchandise. From Guys and Girls T –shirts to kids wear to prints and so on - this is a one stop shop that is a quick and easy way to get your IMOK fix! http://www.imok.com.au http://imok.bigcartel.com/

Whale Trail - Baby clothes design

Imok Baby One-piece "Whale Trail"

"Make a Wish" Unisex T-Shirt

"Oobie" Unisex T-Shirt

"Red Soon" Print

"I have a dream" Print

There has been a lot of blood sweat and tears over the past few months that has gone into building this website. We are sooo proud of the end result is and now we can finally share it with you. Thanks to all our supporters, your encouragement gives us the drive to keep going!



So please take a visit through this exciting new place we have created, play through our Painting and Graphics galleries, find out more about our commissions section, learn about the world we are looking at taking on in – “Art Licensing”…. And most importantly lose yourself in a world that is IMOK.

If you stop by we would LOVE for you to join our mailing list, this will give you our updated newsletter as well as special offers and discount codes for our shopping cart.

"How do you guys paint together?"

This is a question we have been asked many times by a variety of people and something that definitely sparks a great deal of curiosity. So we thought why not share the moment when we decided to combine powers and actually work on the same piece at the same time.

Living in different states we had grown accustom to scanning in sketches to use in various Photoshop graphics or photographing our individual artworks and asking each other for the all important critique over email.

After developing our characters together over time, our style has become very similar and the perfect compliment to each other.

So finally when we were in Melbourne and had a spare weekend we grabbed a blank canvas and thought, why the hell haven't we done this sooner?



Flicking through my sketch book we picked out a picture, something which began as some line work and a character added later. This formed the basis of the canvas.




First step was to prime the canvas and then begin with a lead pencil drawing outline - we both draw in the characters, swirls and other elements...then the fun begins, colouring in!





We used watercolours, acrylic and inks for this work, I concentrated on the black line work at this point and Sandra worked her magic on the blue watercolour washes.





This definitely is the most exciting point in a work, we just grabbed the paint brushes and went with it. We didn't discuss it, just let it happen.

Working on this was one of those heightened moments, we could just feel that something special was happening, something that we wanted to try and do as often as we could. We named the piece "The Time is Now" because we really felt like it was!




Looking back at the process and people's fascination with how we do what we do, we realised it was the mutual respect we have for each others creative talents that allowed the process to happen so naturally. To this day it is one of our favourite works.


An amazing artist and now friend, Luke Jurevicius is the lucky owner of this work, ah Luke, perhaps the subject of an upcoming post me thinks!


So there you have it, the story of our first work together. Thanks for reading :)

The Time is Now - 2008