Jim Field

Self Portrait

2011-06-28T19:17:00.003+01:00

Heres how I feel sat at my desk drawing the 12th design of a character for a commercial. Terrible posture and sadly an empty cup. Back to the Wacom. Yawn...

Accordion Player

2011-06-02T18:36:00.003+01:00

Just finished artworking this piece from a sketch I'd done in the streets of Florence, an accordion busker counting his earnings - I missed him playing unfortunately. Here's the sketch and the final artwork, I've flipped him in the final artwork as I preferred him facing right.

Cambodia Sketch

2010-12-13T12:38:00.003Z

Having just returned from a great trip to Cambodia, I was amazed at their creativity for transprt and logistics...50 geese, alive strapped to the back seat of a moto, 30 foot planks of wood carried by bike, the school run with four boys on the moto...

Hirst

2010-10-26T15:36:00.001+01:00

Some arty ranting with Damien Hirst...

Francis Bacon

2010-10-26T15:34:00.001+01:00

Arty ranting with Francis Bacon...

Beachy

2010-10-12T11:33:00.002+01:00

Digital painting for my folks newly decorated walls.

Man and Bike

2010-10-04T15:24:00.002+01:00

The old man and his trusty wheeled steed.

IF - Star Gazing

2010-08-13T20:26:00.003+01:00

This is a 'star gazed' infused illustration of the book I'm currently working on, Alfonso with his telescope peering into the night sky.

Some Great Ref Photos

2010-08-03T22:41:00.005+01:00

I found these gems on a flickr page while trying to find inspiration for the fishermen characters in the book I'm working on. The storage containers for the fish are labelled Hull, unfortuantely I've lost the link.

Fisherman 1

2010-08-03T22:32:00.001+01:00

A design for one of the Fisherman, trying to keep him simplified in his shape.

Old Seadog

2010-08-03T22:27:00.003+01:00

I thought I'd post other bits of design work for the book so here's an old seadog that features a couple of times in the book.

Alfonso

2010-07-29T18:37:00.003+01:00

I'm just mid way through my first picture book for MacMillan. A story written by Peter Bently with Cats as pirates so I thought I'd post the main character, Alfonso the Tom Cat in his Pirate clobber. OoooH Arrrg Miow.

IF - Early

2010-05-23T17:38:00.003+01:00

Early birds heading out for the 'worms'.

This is a playing card design I've been sat on for the collective I'm part of, Monsters Illustration www.monsters.co.uk. We haven't got round to having them printed yet so here it is the 4 of diamonds.

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IF - Focused

2010-01-31T21:56:00.002Z

Woody Guthrie focused playing one of his protest songs.

Italy Sketches: Two Old Chaps

2010-01-01T18:22:00.003Z

A rare spot of sunshine, these two old guys stood having a chat on Florence's busy street as people rushed passed.

Newspaper

2010-01-01T18:21:00.002Z

This Italian chap had just purchased his regular newspaper.

Dog Walker

2010-01-01T18:19:00.001Z

Dog walker in Florence.

Italy sketches

2010-01-01T18:05:00.003Z

An old busker counting his earnings on a busy lane in Florence.

IF - Blur - JukeBox Johnson

2009-11-06T20:25:00.004Z

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?

2009-09-30T18:05:00.003+01:00

Hunter S Thompson

2009-08-26T14:50:00.003+01:00

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

2009-08-07T10:16:00.002+01:00

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

Character Development

2009-08-07T10:09:00.004+01:00

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

2009-06-07T22:38:00.002+01:00

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

2009-05-13T14:26:00.004+01:00

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

2009-03-14T12:04:00.007Z

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

2009-03-01T11:01:00.003Z

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

IF - Climb

2009-01-23T20:48:00.002Z

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

2009-01-23T20:44:00.002Z

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

Quentin Quirks Magic Works

2009-01-23T20:24:00.003Z

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

2009-01-23T20:07:00.003Z

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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Lynch Detached

2008-08-17T18:25:00.003+01:00

This is my ink drawing of Director David Lynch. The master of the 'detached' image. His strange and intriguing films keep me coming back for more and more.

Mark E Smith

2008-06-15T16:23:00.003+01:00

Coloured sketch of Mark E Smith from the Fall.

Illustration Friday - Wide2

2008-05-16T19:53:00.002+01:00

A Wide couple.

Illustration Friday - Wide1

2008-05-16T19:28:00.003+01:00

This was a collaboration with my friend Tom Genower, we explored the fast food world and what too much results in.

Illustration Friday Electricity

2008-05-12T10:31:00.003+01:00

This is the almighty Electrical Beast, throbbing with pylons and power stations dripping with wasted energy.

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Fish Kid

2008-04-24T12:29:00.003+01:00

This is Fish Kid whos just returning from a great day at the beach!

SWAP IT

2008-04-17T17:53:00.004+01:00

Here it is!

A short film for Oxfam written,designed and animated by myself and Benji over the last 4 weeks or so. It was drawn and animated in after effects with the patterns created with bits of rubber cut up and dipped in ink to create 50s style patterned shapes. Then the finishing touch is thanks to our mate Stu Earl and his cracking sound design.
Swap It parties are a great idea that will be taking place near you very soon. Instead of wasting your money on more and more stuff, 'Swap It' for something you do want with somebody else, be it a book, clothing, a cd etc, you ll feel happy and so will everyone else and its free!

illustration Friday - Homage

2008-03-30T21:40:00.000+01:00

This is my homage to the 'Man in Black' Mr Johnny Cash. I bought this old worn out picture frame in a charity shop for one pound and thought the texture of the backing card was an interesting canvas so I used a dip pen and ink to illustrate the great Johnny Cash.

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Mr Whistler

2008-03-21T20:30:00.000Z

This is a preview of a short animated film for Oxfam with Mr Whistler, the one man band that I am working on at the moment with my directing partner Benji. Its going to be used at 'Swap it' parties to encourage people to stop buying more and more stuff and start swapping stuff with others instead. It will be finished in a couple of weeks hopefully!

Mode

2008-03-16T00:05:00.001Z

Depeche mode, in colour.

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Cave Man

2008-03-11T22:35:00.000Z

This is Mr Nick Cave i doodled last night and had to colour it up.

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Guardian "White People"

2008-03-03T22:01:00.000Z

This is for a spread for The Guardian Guide this Saturday about the "Best of British White People". Featuring Sir Patrick Moore, Boris Johnson, Terry Thomas, Barbara Winsor and John Terry, a strange selection. I only had 4 hours to do this so the background is pretty limited and my hand hurts from speed drawing.

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"Leap" Illustration Friday

2008-03-02T12:08:00.000Z

A Kangaroo bounding to Leap.

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Tourits All

2008-02-29T09:43:00.001Z

This is the tourists finally altogether from a selection of holiday photos I took in Australia. I will eventually get round to printing off a limited series of A2 prints.

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Robot Johnson

2008-02-10T11:31:00.000Z

This is a comic strip for FAT CHUNK (see details below). Its the Tale of Robot Johnson the struggling Jukebox from Mississippi that travels to the crossroads to sell his soul to the Devil (The Fonz).

FAT CHUNK is a collaborative comic book featuring a collection of different artists, each contributing work based on a theme. We find artists from all over the world, based in any discipline, from well-known comic titans to fresh new webcomic talent, from influential street artists to custom toy designers, and throw them together to make one hefty and exciting comic.

The aim of FAT CHUNK is to produce a great comic book featuring diverse approaches to the theme, and to open up each artist's work to new audiences. To shout the word about artists we love, and show off some great untapped talent.

FAT CHUNK VOLUME ONE : ROBOT will be a 144-page book published in May 2008 by Slave Labor Graphics. VOLUME TWO will then follow in November 2008.

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Illustration Friday - Blanket

2008-02-07T21:00:00.000Z

A cowboy tin and his tuna mule find the perfect spot for there blanket out in the desert.

Tourists2

2008-02-02T19:03:00.000Z

some more tourists... Hats, bum bags, sandals and chinos are this seasons look.

Tourists

2008-02-02T18:57:00.000Z

While away in Sydney in December I began taking photos of tourists doing touristy things, like taking photos of the sites or their family. They re going to be an A2 print with about 50 illustrated tourists hope to be completed in a few weeks.

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Print Week

2008-02-02T13:08:00.001Z

This was a fun piece I completed this week for Print Week, with a cheesy glamour host spinning a game show wheel and the different printing options as the winning categories.

Greetings earthlings

2008-02-02T13:00:00.001Z

I am from planet scribble, I bring with me leaded pencils and doodles a plenty.