Hi guys,

Comic Dot Boy’s new long player is out today! YOu can head over to www.loveandassemble.co.uk, to grab a copy of it. Helping support this guy, supports me, and  the album ain’t half bad so hop along and grab a copy right now! Cheers Luke

And heres the new music video for you viewing pleasure

Hi folks, as promised here’s a comprensive update about the artwork I did for Ayera : The Chaos Rebellion.

The artwork, for the most part was complete in November 2008, but like all things it took a while for all the elements to come together for the band( Who can be found here) .

Draft Version of Ayera : The Chaos Rebellion Artwork

Above is a draft version of the artwork done in Illustrator, I narrowed down the designs with the band one afternoon, and settled on this one. As you can see the colours aren’t final, often when I’m doing draft artwork for people I’ll use basic flat colours, as well as several layers so I can easily modify things on the fly, I’ve found this to be a valuable practice within my work.

Ayera : The Chaos Rebellion Artwork Colours 1

Ayera : The Chaos Rebellion Artwork Colours FinalAyera : The Chaos Rebellion Backcover

To the left you can see both the final versions of the artwork.

Ayera : The Chaos Rebellion Disc Artwork

Ayera : The Chaos Rebellion Backcover

Above you can see the disc and back cover artwork.

The Final Product

And finally the final printed and stamped product. First the bad, the printing can out far to dark, and frankly I’m a little pissed about that. I wish I had picked up on that, or demanded a proof from them before the final go ahead. Otherwise I think the final product is pretty good the disc looks great and the artwork turned out nicely, even after a year I still feel that I did some pretty good work on it. You can buy the EP from the band at their Myspace page, or from them at gig’s (also listed on there myspace page). Or you can download the music from http://www.bunalti.com/?p=95194.

Cheers Luke

Been very busy lately and haven’t really had the time to blog all that much. Hopefully I’ll be able to do a big post with all my going on’s soon. Until then, just got mentioned in this article (http://www.metalobsession.net/ayera-the-chaos-rebellion). The quote in question is…

This includes the well balanced production and the intriguing artwork courtesy of Melbourne artist Luke Pickett that is suitably dark but hardly stereotypical.

Go check out the article, and hopefully next week I’ll post full art for this particular project.

Until later in the week.

Cheers Luke

I posted recently about Macedon Ranges Postcard Competition, since then I’ve received several pieces of news. Firstly I won the Trouble Award (http://www.introuble.com.au/), which will see my entry printed in the Salon section of the magazine in beautiful colour in the near future (More information as I get  it).

My Entry, "A day in the Ranges"

Secondly, a few of the local papers have carried the story, none more so the the Kilmore Free Press, which printed my entry as a full page as a cover to there weekend supplement, The Weekender, so thats very cool. Check it out below.

From the "Kilmore Free Press", Friday the 2nd of October 2009

Anyway that my news for today. Congrats to all the other winners.

Cheers Luke

Good news, my submission to Tango 9: Love and War has been accepted.  The story was written by my lovely girlfriend, Marita and will be printed in December, you can see the publishers website here.  The story goes a little like this….

A parallel storyline of a young woman in Toronto, Canada who has organized an Amnesty International protest to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.  The parallel story is of young detainee Omar Khadr, a Canadian national who has been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay since the age of 15, but never been tried as a young offender, and has been detained for 6 years without a fair trial.  The story will follow the girl, and simultaneously Omar Khadr in prison, both youth of the same age, and will have an underlying theme of general collective human love and empathy, and how the care and concern of one girl can make a difference to a boy living in harsh and inhumane conditions.  Her love and empathy helps to keep his spirit alive.  (written by Marita Obst)

The story has been well received in Canada by the local Amnesty International groups and has even been put on to the official Amnesty.ca blog.

Now for a little preview of the comic (pages 1, 2, 5)…..

Anyway, thats just some of my news. More later.

Cheers.