Cheruboy

Name Me

2007-04-20T14:37:00.000+10:00

Inside

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Objects

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Buildings

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Stones

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Quarantine Station

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Insects

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WildlifeWorld

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Darling Harbour

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Luna Park

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Luna Rides

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Friends

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School Holidays Again!

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Taronga Zoo

It's School Holidays

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Oops.

Catboy Figurine

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Catboy figurine.
Made from clay and acrylic paint.

Spoken Word Piece

2006-09-15T18:00:00.000+10:00

Spoken word piece of 'Lets Follow Catboy' poem. Movie runs for 1 minute 45. Some time is needed to download.

I have artistic license to change the words ...

A lot less serious bloopers!

Catboy Popup

2006-09-09T16:26:00.000+10:00

Click on the picture to see it larger.

The poems below are read backwards in order starting with Lets Follow Catboy.

By Cheruboy 11 years old.

Night until Out of Sight

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Pigbird zooms around the sky, turning into night.
A flock of glowing sheep make the hills all bright.
Catboy has Sticky’s jetpac and to home takes flight,
Until I can’t follow him, because he’s out of sight.

The Fair

2006-09-09T16:11:00.000+10:00

Now this is really fun following to a fair.
Sticky is a magician waving magic in the air.
Hey, is that a man or woman standing over there?
Catboys been on the coaster, look at his hair!

Back Street

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Strange houses here are growing out of magic concrete.
Run your feet Catboy, a shark wants you to eat.
It’s looking very dangerous on this crazy back street.
Watch out! Pinnie and a mouse are about to meet!

Mona Lisa in the Park

2006-09-09T16:05:00.000+10:00

Faceto’s painting Mona Lisa and very artistic.
Catboys’s batting arm has turned missile ballistic.
A duck flies to bread which could be fatalistic.
Sticky with his jetpac is looking futuristic.

Lets Follow Catboy

2006-09-09T15:59:00.000+10:00

Lets follow Catboy where he goes in afternoons.
That’s him there in the lights shining like two moons.
Lets hope that car doesn’t blast toxic fumes.
Fat bird has teddies hanging from balloons.

Interview with Artist

2006-09-08T16:36:00.000+10:00

For the project I interviewed an artist who combines image with poetry.

Thank you for your time Modroom by doing an interview for my school project.

Artist: Modroom

Biography: (where you went to artschool more if you like)
I started a Photography course at barking College about 5 years after leaving school, but left that after a term to take a Foundation Art course at Canterbury Art College the next year. Ian Dury went there years before me! It's called Kent College Of Something Or Other now. After that I went to Bradford College and did a Degree in Art, David Hockney went there years before me!.. where I ended up specializing in video. Also did an M.A. at Bradford in Printmaking where I got a Post Graduate Diploma because I messed up the thesis.

Website: Gohatgo - http://gohatgo.blogspot.com

Q: How did you get started in the illustration/literature field?

A: Only entered this field recently when I started blogging last year. Before that, beginning at Canterbury Art College, I would write snippets of lyrics from songs I'd be listening to whilst inside my sketchbook.. usually obscure lyrics and sounds such as B Side of 'Remain In Light' by Talking Heads, early Roxy Music albums and the like. Later would start putting odd phrases of my own or bits from novels by the likes of JD Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov and so on. I did'nt start rhyming until I started blogging.

Q: How did you find your style? Has it changed since you started?

A: Style has changed since started drawing when a kid, made a conscious effort to change a few years ago, and continues to change. I tend not to look at other work too much and see what pops into my head and rolls down my arm to my hand.

Q: Why do you mix literature with visual art?

A: I've always loved words, especially those that tilt the usual perspective on things, either in songs or novels. Putting them to pictures can create another dimension to the art.

Q: What is your creation process?

A: I draw first then make words. This can be tricky sometimes, but sometimes it creates a meaning that was'nt there. Am trying to go words first occasionally, but as yet they seem to wait for the pictures. I tend to start drawing without knowing what it is I'm going to draw, which is not always easy, and let things develope as I go along. Often I return to unfinished drawings and find they suggest something when I get back to them. I need to develope a more reliable way as well as this one though, and interpreting themes for Illustration Friday is good for fixing my head onto a subject. Working with music is a good way of finding a space to create too.

Q: What is the best part about what you do?

A: Finishing something! Also when an idea finally comes together on the page.

Q: Any advice for young artists experimenting with drawings and poetry or pursuing creative goals?

A: Develope some skill with hand/ eye co-ordination, I used to like drawing from life and copying classic paintings etc. Find your mood-space that gets the mind moving, then try to change what is accepted as the norm and put something of yourself into it. Don't forget your audience, I try not to lose them. Experiment with different media and expand. Don't be afraid to let go of something if you feel it is'nt working. Be an individual. Keep healthy, drink plenty of liquids and try to be nice to people and animals and plants. I remember the first ever school homework I got, we were given a copied list of the alphabet and numbers in handwriting and were asked to trace over the lines. I thought everyone's will look the same, so I deliberately drew along the sides of the lines, this created I nice double-vision effect. No-one said anything.

Thank you,Cheruboy

Thank you.Modroom

School Project

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For my school project I combined image with poetry in a pop-up display. This is what it looked like from above.

Speech for Project about Cartoons

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In 1843 the word 'cartoon' was introduced into the English Language as a humorous drawing. A good caricature, like every work of art, is more true to life than reality itself.

The Australian Cartoonist’s Association is the world's oldest cartoonist organisation. In 1924, a group of cartoonists met in a room in the Royal Arcade in Sydney, called the Australian Black and White Artists' Club. In 2000 they changed its name to the Australian Cartoonists' Association. Inkspot is the name of their official journal and they have a section for kids on their website.

Since I could draw, I have been doing cartoons. At the beginning of March last year I started publishing my work once a week onto the internet. You can see my project on my website.

Every week a website called Illustration Friday emailed one different word to illustrators and artists around the world and they would draw their interpretation of the word. Most of my work was illustration only but when I became more confident I began to include words which made cartoons.

One of my supporters on my website is Ian Thomas who does lots of reviews and interviews for the journal called Inkspot. He also draws lots of comics. The girls might know Rock N Roll Fairies in the magazine called Total Girl. The boys might know the manga series called Oztaku. Manga is a Japanese style comic but Ian is Australian.

This year I have been putting poetry to drawings after seeing the work of an English artist called Modroom. I interviewed him for my project. His advice to young artists experimenting with drawings and poetry or pursuing creative goals is:

*Develop some skill with hand/ eye co-ordination.
*Try to change what is accepted as normal and put something of yourself into it.
*Don't forget your audience; try not to lose them.
*Experiment with different media and expand.
*Be an individual and have fun.
*Keep healthy, drink plenty of liquids and try to be nice to people and animals and plants.

Show project and read poem …

Collage Mask

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I'm 11 now :)

Cats

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Ian T. sent an email with the idea of Quick, cut 'n' paste of my Holiday Illustration Friday for this week's topic! So here it is with two photoshop filters! My broken knuckles are healing and should be OK for when I go back to school next Tuesday. I'll remember not to try and catch a truck tyre at the bottom of a skate ramp next time.

My Mum broke a toe a couple of days after my accident and today we just got back from the Doctor because my big brother had a very bad accident with his bike, a telegraph pole and rock cliff face. Manboy broke my bike helmet in two but it saved his life! He won't be doing much for weeks because is bleeding from everywhere and we find out if anything is broken by Sunday. He isn't feeling anything at the moment.

Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Flavour

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Pencil worked in Photoshop. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Holiday

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Pen sketch worked on in Photoshop. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Imagine

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Imagine! Click image to see larger. By Cheruboy 10 years old.

Surprise

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Made with blue tac, bottle caps, metallic pens, plugs and a bee. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Small

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I had little time to do this picture and was in a small rush. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Free

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Oil pastel drawing. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Strength

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Pencil drawing. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Night

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Pencil drawing worked on in Photoshop. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Broken

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Pencil drawing worked on in Photoshop. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Remote

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Pencil drawing worked on in Photoshop. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Cold

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First I made a snowflake at Make a Flake. Then I worked on it in Photoshop. Click to see it larger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

JacqueLynn asked if it snows at my house. I have never seen snow, only when I was a baby. When I am in 6th Class at school we will go to a Snow Camp for a special long excursion! I have made flakes at "Make a Flake" for a long time so I am ready to see the real thing. I also made some paper flakes before doing my digital flake.

Lost

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I made the puzzle yesterday by drawing and cutting. When I made the puzzle today by fitting together the pieces there were already two lost! Click to see bigger. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Float

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Click to see a larger picture. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

This crazy old man was floating in a pool when a helicoper flew over, lifted him up and he started to float away.

I learnt how to draw the man out of the scary sketching activitoon page in K-Zone. Then I made him float.

Fresh

2005-09-25T18:00:00.000+10:00

I have made a FRESH new avatar because somebody did a movie with a Sharkboy in it. You can see my old Sharkboy on my last post.

My new Avatar is called God Cheruboy. Click to see a larger picture. By Cheruboy, 10 years old.

Goodbye Sharkboy

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I am saying Goodbye to my Sharkboy Avatar because somebody has made a movie with a Sharkboy in it.

Goodbye Old Avatar!

Escape

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By Cheruboy 10 years old. Click picture to see detail.

Depth

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By Cheruboy 10 years old.

Roots

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By Cheruboy. 10 years old.

This is my picture with roots for Illustration Friday. Click to make bigger picture.

Dreams

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By Cheruboy 10 years old. You can click the image to make it bigger.

Reflection

2005-08-25T20:30:00.000+10:00

Have you ever looked in the mirror and see an ugly person staring back?

By Cheruboy 10 years old. This is my first picure using a graphics tablet and Illustrator. You can click the picture to see it larger.

Wisdom

2005-08-16T19:37:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy, 10 years. Made in Photoshop using shapes after drawing on paper.

You can click the picture to see it larger.

Empty

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By Cheruboy, 10 years.

You can click the picture to see it larger.

Aging

2005-07-30T09:08:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy, 10 years old now and aging!

I am having my 10 year old Birthday Party today! This is the outside and inside of the invitation card I made to send to my friends. You can click the picture to see it larger.

Tranquility

2005-07-28T12:39:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy, 10 year old now!

We have a Garden of Tranquility at school. This was made with watercolour pencils and Micador Watercolour Wands I got for my birthday. You can click the picture to see it larger.

Karma

2005-07-21T19:07:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy, 9 years.

You can click the picture to see it larger.

Metropolitan

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By Cheruboy 9 years old.

You can click the image to enlarge.

Sport

2005-07-02T16:16:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy 9 years. This morning I was thinking what to draw when Spongebob Squarepants came on TV. I then had an idea to draw Spongebob playing volleyball and Patrick jellyfishing for my Sport Illustration for Illustration Friday.

Heroes

2005-06-26T18:02:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy 9 years.I drew the picture with lead pencil then used photoshop following what Anthony Woodward suggested to clean up drawing. I then coloured with the paintbucket.

Black and White

2005-06-18T15:35:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy 9 years.
I drew the picture with lead pencil then used neon glow in photoshop making the glow black instead of grey. I then coloured areas in white.
Ian T is right! Above is an oryx, an indri, and a penguin.

The other little stripey guy at the back is a tapir.

Summer!

2005-06-11T20:34:00.000+10:00

Mr Icecream attacks Earth in Summer! By Cheruboy 9 years.

Jacquelynn asks how do I do this?
1. I drew the picture with lead pencil.
2. Scanned by Mum into Photoshop CS. Mum copied the picture so I can keep a black and white one and I can colour one, then leaves me to colour.
3. I used tools pencil and paintbucket to colour. I changed colours using the eyedropper tool and the colour picker. Sometimes I looked at how it looks with different filters. I yelled finished.
4. Mum overlayed the original black and white on top of my colour copy to show the pencil lines better. Then made it smaller, sharpened, and changed into a jpeg. Then put online. Soon I can do this myself because I watch and remember how.

Digital

2005-06-09T17:44:00.000+10:00

Something digital. By Cheruboy 9 years.
This was half coloured in Photoshop and half coloured by hand.

Envy

2005-06-01T18:04:00.000+10:00

I wish I was Super Dude. By Cheruboy 9 years.
Ian T suggests get a scan done in pure black and white (at 300dpi if possible), adjusting the light/dark to get the image fairly clean, then play around with dropping some colours in using the paintbucket tool, in a graphics program like Photoshop or Paintshop.

Mum scans at 300dpi but sometimes I don't have time to clean or colour on the computer. I have LOTS of homework. I am in 4th class at school and practice drawing at school all the time. Sometimes my drawings are hand coloured later.

Aquatic

2005-05-26T19:45:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy 9 years.

My Reinvent illustration is also Aquatic. You can see it at Reinvent

This was hand drawn and coloured then using a gradient overlay and inner glow did the water in Photoshop.

Nourishment

2005-05-19T18:34:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy 9 years.

Mischief

2005-05-13T21:34:00.000+10:00

Slave sculptor wonders if they will notice his extra touches.

Ambition

2005-05-03T18:52:00.000+10:00

When I grow up. By Cheruboy 9 years young.

Daring

2005-04-26T12:01:00.000+10:00

Don't get too close! Cheruboy 9 years.

Reinvent

2005-04-19T12:03:00.000+10:00

Reinventing below the water line. Cheruboy, 9 years.

I used water colour pencils and real sand was glued on.

Lonely

2005-04-16T20:15:00.000+10:00

The fish is saying I am so lonely. Cheruboy, 9 years.

Pencil Power

2005-04-09T13:55:00.000+10:00

My first drawing lesson at Mark Kistler's School of Imagination. Thanks to Jacque Davis for her help. By Cheruboy, 9 years.

Travel

2005-04-07T10:55:00.000+10:00

By Cheruboy, 9 years.

Crowded

2005-03-28T11:12:00.000+10:00

The back cover of the comic book I'm making at the moment. It is crowded with characters.
By Cheruboy 9yrs.

Bloom

2005-03-20T16:32:00.000+11:00

Blooming.

By Cheruboy 9yrs.

Fragile

2005-03-17T16:25:00.000+11:00

A pencil drawing of fragile Ancients. The paper was too fragile for my wet school bag. It was raining a lot today on my way home.

By Cheruboy 9yrs.

Cheruboy Food

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Favourite Recipe!

Ancient

2005-03-09T14:21:00.000+11:00

A pencil drawing of ancient dragons.
By Cheruboy 9yrs.

Hi

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I have lots of comic drawings. Mum told me about Illustration Friday. The first week I have to do 'Ancient'. I wish Mum would put all my comics on my webpage. I'm 9 years old. Look at the first comment and you will see a picture of me.