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Tim Squires

Graphic Art, Design, Illustration and Animation

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Wolf anatomy (After Aaron Blaise)

January 23, 2021 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

I’ve recently been diving in to the wonderful tutorials and art lessons by former Disney animator and wildlife artist Aaron Blaise. I’m always interested in the work of other artists, and it’s been really refreshing for me to put my own ideas and techniques aside for a while and learn some new ways of thinking, […]

Filed Under: Artwork, Illustration, Thylacine artwork and research

Lioness

January 18, 2021 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

A digital/Photoshop study of a lioness that I copied by following a demonstration by Aaron Blaise.

Filed Under: Artwork, Illustration

Animation experiment

May 10, 2020 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

I’ve always loved animations and cartoons. I have dabbled with a few little things over the years, but have recently been studying a few more techniques and processes online. This is an early effort with a hand-drawn animation that is based upon drawings by Preston Blair. It’s a very challenging art form, but tremendously rewarding […]

Filed Under: Animation, Illustration

DesktopServer by ServerPress review

April 7, 2020 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

DesktopServer by ServerPress

Regardless of whether you are a WordPress beginner or an advanced developer, DesktopServer from ServerPress is a powerful and convenient tool that can greatly speed up your website development process. Even better news is that the trial version of DesktopServer is free, runs on both Windows and Mac, and allows three WordPress sites to run […]

Filed Under: Product and service reviews

Australian decimal currency designs

May 30, 2019 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

Australian decimal currency banknotes have a fascinating design history. A 1968 Penrose Annual article by renowned graphic designer Alistair Morrison provides a detailed account of the working methods of the team of graphic designers who collaborated on Australia’s first decimal currency banknotes. In early 1963 the Commonwealth Government announced that a new decimal currency system […]

Filed Under: Design history, Graphic design, Illustration

Here there be Tygers

March 13, 2019 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

I have a real interest in design history and I often find inspiration from early styles of graphic art. I recently acquired another copy of The Penrose Annual from a second-hand book store and as usual it contains a treasure trove of images and designs. I love this old advertisement for Kodak in the style […]

Filed Under: Graphic design, Illustration

A Design Odyssey

August 2, 2018 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

 The astronaut/space theme that I have adopted for my website is a fun way of expressing a number of related ideas. I was born in 1965 – halfway through the decade that culminated with Neil Armstrong’s first “small step” upon the Moon. I have many early childhood memories of watching the first televised images […]

Filed Under: Animation

State Election Guide 2018

March 7, 2018 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

Tasmanian state election guide cover 2018

My design for the cover of the Mercury‘s guide to the 2018 state election owes everything to the brilliant work of Mercury photographer Richard Jupe. Richard’s great talent for putting his subjects at ease, coupled with his extensive experience in lighting, composition and staging is clearly evident in this stunning combined portrait of Labor party […]

Filed Under: News design

Drawing the Tasmanian tiger

February 14, 2018 by Tim Squires 2 Comments

The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was a large native carnivorous marsupial that was driven to extinction in Tasmania. The tragic story of the animal continues to fascinate many people both in Tasmania and overseas, and although many unverified sightings have been reported since the last one died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936, […]

Filed Under: Thylacine artwork and research

The Penrose Annual, Volume 50, 1956

January 29, 2018 by Tim Squires Leave a Comment

Sample of artwork from the Penrose Annual, Volume 50, 1956

As an art and graphic design student I often pored over the Penrose Annual collection in the art school library. They were a treasure trove of printing techniques, typeface designs, advertising artwork and illustrations,  and I would be enthralled as I turned the pages. I couldn’t believe my luck recently when I found a copy […]

Filed Under: Book reviews, Graphic design

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Black-headed honeyeater by Tim Squires
Tasmanian tiger by Tim Squires
Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii
Eastern quoll, by Tim Squires

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