My first editorial illustration

Here is my first editorial that was in the Business Reporter supplement in the Sunday Telegraph.

This was good fun to do, especially the initial process of coming up with a fun idea for this rather dry subject. I definitely need to refine my editorial style of work though. I automatically started to do children's picture book type work which isn't really appropriate for a business supplement editorial. All good practice though.

Dave's fancy new collar

Bear in mind

The old idiom, bear in mind. It just seems funny to me.

Fashion Illustrations

Have been doing some commissioned work for fashion designer and good friend Edward Lord.

Had alot of fun doing these, learnt alot too. It was nice to work abit more spontaneously and not fussing over ever little detail. Definitely something I'll keep in mind for future work.

Dave's Gift

King Arthur

Keeping with the whole drawing for a younger audience theme I did this book cover. Was looking through my work and noticed that I'll usual draw a character but never really develop much of a background behind. Doing these sort of book covers will help me in that aspect of my work I hope.

Great Success!

Well I've been with them for a couple of weeks but it's taken a while to sort out the paperwork and all that kind of guff. But I now have an agent in the form of Advocate Art, hope it's a long and fruitful relationship.

Animals

Have been practicing drawing different types of animals for a younger audience. Started with the more exotic variety then had a go at some farmyard type critters. 

Dave the Cat

Dave is a character I like to draw every now and again. He is an absolute tool which is one of the reasons why I like drawing him so much.

Brave New Worlds Exhibition

A advertisement poster for the exhibition in Richmond that I have some work displayed.

Recent Sketches

Tree-School

Market

Earl and It

Patrick, Harold and Ethel

 Haven't done a post in a while so thought I'd put up some recent sketches for a personal project I'm currently working on. Two are location concepts and the other two are character concepts. Having alot of fun creating these people and places. When I've got it all worked out I hope to turn them into some sort of story book.

Thank you

A thank you card I did a while ago.

Otis

Otis the dog.

Cat on a mat

Definitely more of a dog person, but I do love drawing fat cats.

Brave New Worlds Exhibition

Got a letter through the post today from the nice people at Richmond Hill gallery in London saying that one of my pieces (see above) has been chosen to be displayed in the Brave New Worlds Exhibition that takes place 3rd September to 5th November. Very exciting!

Cowboy

A happy chap!

Self portrait

Quick, little self portrait I did while messing around with abit of a different style to my usual stuff.

Birdy and the Crock

Re-working of a second year piece.

Sketches

These two pieces are a few of the sketches I did for my final exhibition paintings all mixed up and put together. I photoshopped the paper colour and texture to make it look abit like the old leonardo da vinci sketchbooks.

Exhibition pieces

The final paintings for my three characters. I Photographed them with quite a posh camera so the quality isn't so bad. Each one is 101cm high, 50cm wide.