IF - Blur - JukeBox Johnson

This is a concept artwork of Jukebox Johnson, a rambling old jukebox who can't play good records until he sells his soul (records) to the devil, based on the tale of the blues legend Robert Johnson. Here he is travelling on a freight train with his old pal 'Wireless' and the landscape travelling passed them in a blur. Slightly tenuous link indeed!

What's In La Roux' Quiff?

Hunter S Thompson

A recent illustration of the gonzo writer...and a few of his quotes...

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Character Development 2

This was a further coloured up version of the same character, quite a different feel.

Character Development

This is a character I was developing for a book but unfortunately its too simple and young for the target group, so I thought I'd store him in the character archive draw for a rainy day. I liked the beard blending into the chin.

IF - Craving Fast Food

This is a collaborative illo I did with my fellow monsters pal Tom Genower. It was for a Monsters exhibition we had a couple of years ago, Tom and I decided to draw anything related to fast food and the 'craving' for for it and this was the result. The woman in the bottom right corner is Gillian McKeith, an irritating presenter who tells everyone to eat pumpkin seeds and dust while inspecting their shit.

Woody Guthrie

This is a before and after illustration of Woody Guthrie. I drew it in fountain pen, ink and tippex for the highlights, such as the strings, these are particularly annoying things to draw with just a black pen. It was then scanned and coloured up in photoshop in a colourful palette.

IF Legendary Bob Dylan

My personal favourite artist the legendary Bob dylan. Rendered in ink and pencils and coloured digitally.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

IF - Breezy

Mr Fridge in a wet and breezy scene. I developed this chap from a little sketch.

IF - Climb

This is a single illustration from a personal project. Its a comic called 'Ink Tales' the plot is a man who loses his dog and searches high and low to find him, encountering God, Satan and Gary to name a few.
I was experimenting with ink dripping onto paper with water and letting the ink seep into the paper to create really interesting textures and working them into backgrounds. This scene is after he's spoken to Satan and is climbing the long steps out of hell.

Quentin Quirk Inside Cover

This is a full cover artwork for the Inside cover of the 'Attack of the Bum-Biting Sharks'.

Quentin Quirks Magic Works

Just before Christmas I completed my first children's book for MacMillan. Its a book series called Quentin Quirk's Magic Works and the first book is called 'Attack of the Bum-Biting Sharks'.

The two main characters are Jez and Charlie, 10 year old boys who hate Jez' evil teenage older sister Francesca, they would do anything to make her life miserable. So after stumbling upon an old Magic shop owned by the rather eccentric 183 year old Quentin Quirk. The boys buy a tiny bottle of Liquid Frighteners from the strange, grumpy old git thus creating tiny Bum-Biting Sharks. The Sharks get out into the towns waterworks and things get a bit out of hand.

I'll post a few different images this first one is the first time the boys walk into the secret Magic Works where Quirks potions are created. It was illustrated in Ink, the restriction of Black and White and no Grayscale made me really re-structure the way I normally work, using different cross hatching styles to represent colours.

The book will be printed this year sometime.

Building Design Magazine - Book Club

I'm not dead. Its just been a long long time since I've posted something, so I thought I should put up a few pieces I've recently worked on to get back into the bloggidy blog blog habit.
So to begin this is a piece for BD magazine, an architect magazine, I also did the web banner but it has to be so massively compressed and the colours are restricted to web safe so it ends up looking not much like the actual illustration (in other words a bit shit) so I thought I'd post how it did look.
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