Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone that follows my blog :)

alternative version 

original image 

Something I've been working on..

Graphics Worm

My submission to the Graphics Worm project, 'a continuous collaborative horizontal image'. See the other entries here

V&A Illustration Awards 2013

My entry for the V&A Illustration Awards 2013, competition open until the 10th

Monster likes to prance

Snow - Illustration Friday

Monster camouflaged as a tree

Something I've been working on today

The Forgotten Sloth

The Sloth/Monkey (bear maybe?) Hybrid Original

AOI's IMAGES 36

Very pleased to have received my copy of the AOI's Images 36 a few weeks back, complete with my Museum illustration :)

View more from 'The Museum' series here

Happy Halloween!

Ohh Deer Pillow Flight Competition ... Round Two

The Ohh Deer Pillow Fight competition has now entered into its second stage, for the next couple of weeks various designs will be available via their competition shop.

I have the two designs above up for sale, click on the images above to view them in the shop. :)

Something I've been working on today

Inspired by the Raven

Shoe House

Bird Pattern in a repeat

Experimenting with my patterns further.

Tree House

A new post about old work

I've been looking through a few more folders of old work and came across these drawings that never really saw the light of day before. Granted they are quite bizarre and I do wonder what was going through my head at the time, but nevertheless I thought I would share them with you. To view more of my Forgotten Bird Series please visit my dedicated website :)

 

 

 

I know my last few post have been about old work, I am doing new work too... I promise!

an oldie

This is a drawing I did a while back, that got a bit lost and forgotten about really. After seeing it again, I'm tempted to expand on this style and develop it more. 

What do you think?

*The Times Eureka Magazine*

I was really excited when I was contacted a few weeks back by the guys from Eureka Magazine to produce four illustrations depicting a journey into the sea. It was to accompany an fascinating article from The Times Ocean Correspondent, Frank Pope on marine conservation. The commission was great and really fun to work on and I am very pleased with the outcome in yesterdays issue.

I was introduced to Chris Clark and Fraser Lyness from Eureka Magazine, earlier this year when I was a selected presenter for the Enquiry Desk In Session, held at this years Pick Me Up Contemporary Graphic Art Fair. It was such an fantastic opportunity and the panel had really helpful advice on how to develop my portfolio, I would definitely recommend booking one of their Portfolio Review Sessions

...In all a great couple of weeks :)

Ohh Deer..... Pillow Fight Competition

Here's my two entries for Ohh Deer's Pillow Fight Competition, patterns taken from my new series of illustrations I have been experimenting with lately.

I came across the competition through seeing fantastic entries from fellow graduates from the Children's Book Illustration MA: Trudi Esberger and Anna Brown

 

Bird Pattern

 

Flower Pattern 

The competition is open until this Saturday, click here to add your own designs!

Please feel free to share my designs on twitter and facebook if you like them

a shapely pattern

Sea Pattern

 

I find this one slightly less exciting than my last two, nevertheless I'm still quite

 enjoying the process and have more planned that I want to play around with.

I just can't seem to stop wanting to include birds and sea life in my illustrations...

Experimenting with pattern continues...

Experimenting with pattern and other updates

Decided to leave the pressure of coming up with a new narrative etc to one side today and just to play around with using pastels, a bit of photoshop and pattern

Other Updates:

The lovely people who created the website for our Cambridge School of Art, Bologna book fair stand website have now added a gallery to the site, please go on and have a look at all the amazing portfolios from other illustrators on the course.

 

Thinking about creating a series of birds to sell, what do you all think?

Croc