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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