urination.

Another revised thesis piece. Don't drink too much water before bed. More to come soon!!

supercharged sheep.

Ok. So I've been in my lab for the past few months really working hard to deconstruct everything it is that I do in order to come up with a much more of a unique visual language. To give you a taste, this is a picture I remade recently. Things have been insanely busy, but there is plenty more work on the way - so stay tuned! I'm gonna try to post up once a week from now on!!

Animation.

Okay! So here's my final movie for an animated illustration course I had been taking this past semester. It's not quite what I wanted it to be - tons of work trying to learn this program. For a first go at after effects I'm pretty pleased - the possibilities of making pictures move around and do stuff is actually really exciting!

Go-Go-Gorilla from daniel downey on Vimeo.

Ps. I've got a ton of work to upload onto here in the new year - just in the process of re-evaluating/revamping everything I've been doing. Big changes coming up! Really exciting! Illustration rules my life!

bacon

This is an experimental personal piece I did for fun this summer which has been hanging in a small art show at TA2 sound + music studio in Leslieville along with a few other pieces of mine over the past few months. Big thanks to those guys for that opportunity!

counting shzzzp

This is my first illustration towards my thesis project. I'm really focusing on pushing my work in a bit more of a delicate direction these days - all the while keeping the same feel as some of my older work. More to come soon!

VIFF

So back at the start of summer I was asked by my friend Addy at TWBA Vancouver to illustrate a poster for the Vancouver International Film Festival. I don't think it ended up getting used for anything - but I learned a lot on the fly and had a ton of fun coming up with different images for it. Next time around I think I would handle something like this a lot differently. Huge thanks to Addy again though for providing the opportunity, and to good friend Andy Slater for saving my life last minute in designing/laying in the typography for me when my videocard exploded. On the brightside - another good friend of mine, Alex Mcleod had his submitted image represent pretty much the entire face of the festival this year with his poster (see below) that totally makes your eyes want to fall out of their sockets (as does most of his work - cause it's all unreal). Okay, enough name dropping check out those links!

back to the future

So I haven't posted anything in a long while - but I promise that's all about to change. So far this has been a really huge year for me. 3 'Chosen' images for American Illustration and a runner up merit prize in Creative Quarterly 16 - really exciting. Thesis is now well under way and things are shaping up for another really big year. - I'll be posting up some of those images here for feedback later on as I get more done. Right now though - I'm going to leave you with an animated illustration - an entirely new thing that I've only begun to scrape the surface on. More to come soon!

Smoke!

This was a quick little guy I threw together for fun today! Weird looking hand eh? Lots of stuff on the go right now - more to come in the next little while! Also thinking about starting up another blog or an etsy site really soon for the airbrush portrait shirts I've been doing!!

Beautiful things

Here is a picture I made as a personal project - lots more of these to come over the course of the summer. Did a little bit of experimenting in this piece - not sure if everything is really working as well as I'd like it to - but it did come together really fast! Exciting! Let me know what you think!> (the colors on here are a little desaturated)

Great Experiment.

Today the Great Bloomers debut full-length hits shelves. REALLY exciting stuff! Below is a cover design/illustration I did for the guys! I totally ventured off into some new territory (typography) and totally took an altogether different approach in terms of both the imagery and the way I put the whole thing together. Much different than how I normally work - but I think in the end the whole thing picks up on the vibe of the record pretty well! If you haven't heard them yet - you definitely need to check them out asap! Definitely some of the most talented friends that I have. Let me know what you think!