Mr. Whatnot

I was asked to create a poster for an English comedy play "Mr. Whatnot".
The client wanted me to come up 3 main characters from that play.
The main Character, Mr. Mint, a mid-class English man, naive but randy piano tuner causes havoc one summer weekend at the English country house of the Slingsby Craddocks. A very British confection set amongst the upper-class, becoming increasingly surreal as the silent character of Mint attempts to win the affections of their debutante daughter Amanda. Straight away I was thinking combining Mr. Bean, Paul Hunter and Jason Watkins those typical English faces together for the main character Mint. 
The setting is in the grounds of Lord & Lady Singsby-Craddock's grand country manor-tennis court, afternoon tea set up on the lawn, rose gardens, tennis match.
Anyway, loads of fun working on this project.

skinny old man sketch

Here is a skinny old man I saw on the ferry. Did some sketches of him after getting home.

Griffin Alkyd fast drying oil on moleskin

12 May sketches

A couple of Sketches

A Maori bus driver 

An old man waiting for ferry.

Stevie Wonder

    I had this in mind for quite a while. Now I have got the time to paint him.

His body type nowadays reminds me of this dude...   

Sorry Mr. Wonder, no offence : P

colour pencil sketch

Some sketches I have done using colour pencil recently. 

the year that was 2012

the year that was 2012

North & South Magazine's first issue in 2013 features articles reflecting on New Zealand-related stories from 2012.

Joseph’s brief was to create caricatures for five of the stories. He chose the following momentous events...

February... North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-un (son of Kim Jong-il, son of Kim Il-sung), accuses Kim Dotcom of cyber-squatting on his dynasty’s vanity domain and furiously demands one-to-one talks with the US.

March... In traffic news, changing give-way laws wreak caution and respect on New Zealand roads – although some literal-minded motorists interpret the coloured education diagrams as meaning red cars must now give way to green cars and a confused eight-year-old is found joy-riding an SUV around Wellington wearing only Ben 10 pyjamas. Police see through the boy’s story that he was merely following Apple iGuide Siri’s directions to the naughty step when they notice his tablet device is Android, not Apple.

June... Ripped All Black centre Sonny Bill Williams accepts an offer he couldn’t refuse from Panasonic’s club Wild Knights in Japan. If SBW were involved, thousands of female New Zealand rugby fans would also find it impossible to refuse an offer of wild nights in Japan.

August... A promotion to swap problematic ginger-haired offspring for ginger beer outrages parents everywhere. Everywhere, that is, except Clarence House in London, where Prince Charles is confronted with nude photos of Prince Harry after some jolly poor sport with a camera phone enforced the down-trou’ rule at a late-night billiards tournament.

November... Back home, Sir Ian McKellen threatens to turn Key into an Ork for using the word “gay” to mean “weird”. Colin Craig alleges Key now supports “weird marriage”.