Self Portrait

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

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

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

Some arty ranting with Damien Hirst...

Francis Bacon

Arty ranting with Francis Bacon...

Beachy

Digital painting for my folks newly decorated walls.

Man and Bike

The old man and his trusty wheeled steed.

IF - Star Gazing

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

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

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

Old Seadog

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

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

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.

Click to ENLARGE...

IF - Focused

Woody Guthrie focused playing one of his protest songs.

Italy Sketches: Two Old Chaps

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

Newspaper

This Italian chap had just purchased his regular newspaper.

Dog Walker

Dog walker in Florence.

Italy sketches

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

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?