I'm rather fond of a devil & a recent conversation reminded me of the line from Temple of Love by The Sisters of Mercy mentioning the 'devil in a black dress' so I thought it'd be a shame not to depict one.
More devils?
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Monday, 4 April 2016
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Let's wrestle!
Labels:
antlers,
arm wrestle,
Batman,
cat,
cigarettes,
dunce,
eight ball,
fifties,
hot dog,
HP Sauce,
illustration,
pomade,
quiff,
retro,
smoking,
steve may,
tattoo,
tattoos
Friday, 4 March 2016
Colectivo cover art
I drew this recently for the cover of a new literary magazine called Colectivo.
The image takes a little bit of artistic licence from several experiences of shared 'bush taxi' journeys a friend of mine & I experienced while traveling around in Gambia, Senegal & Mauritania a few years ago. Whilst travelling around West Africa on the cheap one becomes more & more aware of the myriad workings of what I came to call 'Bush Taxi Top Trumps'
Here's a couple of the original sketches.
For more exhaustive & often far better written & funny musings on 'different' travel experiences I heartily recommend my friend Graham Askey's Inside Other Places blog
The image takes a little bit of artistic licence from several experiences of shared 'bush taxi' journeys a friend of mine & I experienced while traveling around in Gambia, Senegal & Mauritania a few years ago. Whilst travelling around West Africa on the cheap one becomes more & more aware of the myriad workings of what I came to call 'Bush Taxi Top Trumps'
Here's a couple of the original sketches.
For more exhaustive & often far better written & funny musings on 'different' travel experiences I heartily recommend my friend Graham Askey's Inside Other Places blog
Labels:
Africa,
bush taxi,
car,
chicken,
Colectivo,
electric guitar,
Gambia,
goat,
illustration,
Mauritania,
overcrowded,
Senegal,
sketch,
travel,
Tuareg,
watermelon
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Friday, 12 February 2016
Monday, 8 February 2016
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Diary of Dennis The Menace - The Great Escape published TODAY!
It's publication day for the 6th Diary of Dennis the Menace book - The Great Escape written by Steven Butler with illustrations by me.
In this story, Dennis the Menace - Prankmaster General and feared enemy of softies everywhere - has been sent to Posh Street, an elite boarding school run by the terrifying Mrs Snoot. Help! Dennis is surrounded by bookish boffins, can't hang out with the Bash Street Kids and is nearly starving as the school dining room only serves super-healthy food. What he needs is a plan. With a little help from his menacing buddies on the outside, some fart pellets and Gran on a Charley Davison bike, it's time for Dennis to make his great escape . . .
Very sadly I recently found out that this is going to be the last Dennis the Menace book I'll be drawing. It's been a huge amount of fun & I've absolutely loved the chance to be able to reinterpret a childhood hero of mine in the books. I've also thoroughly enjoyed working with the lovely Steven Butler (any author who can make me laugh out loud with the manuscript is ALWAYS a good sign!) & lots of thanks to all the people at Puffin & The Beano.
In this story, Dennis the Menace - Prankmaster General and feared enemy of softies everywhere - has been sent to Posh Street, an elite boarding school run by the terrifying Mrs Snoot. Help! Dennis is surrounded by bookish boffins, can't hang out with the Bash Street Kids and is nearly starving as the school dining room only serves super-healthy food. What he needs is a plan. With a little help from his menacing buddies on the outside, some fart pellets and Gran on a Charley Davison bike, it's time for Dennis to make his great escape . . .
Very sadly I recently found out that this is going to be the last Dennis the Menace book I'll be drawing. It's been a huge amount of fun & I've absolutely loved the chance to be able to reinterpret a childhood hero of mine in the books. I've also thoroughly enjoyed working with the lovely Steven Butler (any author who can make me laugh out loud with the manuscript is ALWAYS a good sign!) & lots of thanks to all the people at Puffin & The Beano.
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Kimono Dragon (slight return)
A return to the 'kimono dragon' from an original pun by a friend & drawn as a birthday present for another.
Monday, 1 February 2016
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Demonic Kittys
Labels:
animals,
cat,
cats,
daemons,
demon,
kitty,
pen and ink,
sketch,
sketchbook,
steve may
Monday, 18 January 2016
Friday, 15 January 2016
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Startled dog in mid-fart.
More farting animals? Yes siree! Just click here
Labels:
children's illustration,
dog,
dogs,
fart,
farting,
illustration,
pen & ink,
sketch
Felix Frost - Time Detective - Ghost Plane - published today!
Ghost Plane, the second in the series of Eleanor Hawken's Felix Frost books I've illustrated is published today (14th January)
While illustrating the interiors & cover I got to become familiar with the details of several WW II planes (in particular the Mustang P51 he says knowledgeably!), some '40s hairstyles & managed a few pictures of Winston Churchill in the meantime.
(Because of another job I actually ended up drawing likenesses of Winston Churchill & MC Hammer on the same day! Not many illustrators can claim that but that's a story for another day...)
It's published by Quercus books & you can buy it online but I'd urge you to seek out your nearest independent book shop & give them the trade if you can - you never know what else you'll find or what people you might meet!*
(*ok, Winston Churchill's out, but there's an outside chance of MC Hammer...)
'As every respectable scientist knows, messing with the space-time continuum is more trouble than it's worth.
While illustrating the interiors & cover I got to become familiar with the details of several WW II planes (in particular the Mustang P51 he says knowledgeably!), some '40s hairstyles & managed a few pictures of Winston Churchill in the meantime.
(Because of another job I actually ended up drawing likenesses of Winston Churchill & MC Hammer on the same day! Not many illustrators can claim that but that's a story for another day...)
It's published by Quercus books & you can buy it online but I'd urge you to seek out your nearest independent book shop & give them the trade if you can - you never know what else you'll find or what people you might meet!*
(*ok, Winston Churchill's out, but there's an outside chance of MC Hammer...)
'As every respectable scientist knows, messing with the space-time continuum is more trouble than it's worth.
That's why Felix Frost, secret child genius, has locked up his time machine for good. Yes, sir.
But, when your best friend is an adventure-loving bossy pants and you've got a history project to do. Well, that changes things.
When Missy and Felix visit Bill Hudson, Missy's great grandfather, to ask him about his years as a pilot in WW2, he tells them the story of the ghost plane: a fighter jet that went out on a routine mission, and when it came back, its pilot had vanished.
Join Felix, Missy and Einstein as they dust off the time machine to travel back to England, 1943. Can they solve the mystery of the ghost plane without getting caught out as time travellers? Or worse, spies!'
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Smoking Bowie cat
Just found this crittur & thought I'd post it in lieu of yesterday's sad, sad news. RIP David Bowie
NB This blog does NOT condone cats smoking cigarettes
NB This blog does NOT condone cats smoking cigarettes
Labels:
Aladdin Sane,
animals,
cat,
cats,
cigarettes,
David Bowie,
fags,
illustration,
smoke,
smoking
Thursday, 7 January 2016
A glimpse of summer...
Well, with January shaping up to be pretty horrible all round here's a glimpse of summer from some newly arrived run ons from my agents Arena Illustration's 2016 calendar where I get to be Mr August! There's dinosaurs & ice cream in it- what's not to like?
Here's the original from way back when...
Here's the original from way back when...
Labels:
Arena Illustration,
calendar,
children's illustration,
dinosaur,
dinosaurs,
dog,
dogs,
girl,
ice cream,
ice cream van,
ice lolly,
seagulls,
seaside,
steve may
Happy (belated) New Year
First post of 2016! Here's my newly arrived copy of Felix Frost - Time Detective - Ghost Plane, written by Eleanor Hawken & illustrated by me. I'll post some more when it's published on January 14th. It's published by Quercus books
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Winter Solstice...
Labels:
antlers.eight-ball,
balloon,
Christmas,
pen and ink,
solstice,
tattoo,
tattoos,
winter,
Xmas
Monday, 21 December 2015
Friday, 18 December 2015
Thee Lobotomised Sh*tlarks
Culled from a rather wonderful insult in a Tweet by @anandamide - I want to be in this band!
Labels:
band,
garage band,
imaginary musical genres,
pen & ink,
sketch,
Twitter
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Festive animated greetings!
A festive animated non-denominational animated greeting (nb may contain unicorns)
You can see it BIGGER here -
Labels:
After Effects,
animation,
balloon,
Christmas,
electric guitar,
Happy,
motion graphics,
moustache,
snow,
unicorns,
whale,
Xmas
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Johnny Danger - Lie Another Day
Forget your Spectre nonsense! Here's my cover illustration for Peter Millet's second Johnny Danger book, 'Lie Another Day'
It features 'death-defying bungee bogeys, Big Andy the killer anaconda, despicable G.R.O.S.S. agents, and a gassy evil villain known as The Blank Space.' - out in 2016
It features 'death-defying bungee bogeys, Big Andy the killer anaconda, despicable G.R.O.S.S. agents, and a gassy evil villain known as The Blank Space.' - out in 2016
Friday, 27 November 2015
Make mine a "99"
Nope, I have no idea why the '99' flake was called thus. Anyway, we all love cats & ice cream don't we...?
Labels:
99 flake,
animal,
animals,
cat,
children's illustration,
girl,
ice cream,
ice cream van,
illustration,
seagulls
Monday, 23 November 2015
Doctor Menace!
As it's Doctor Who's 52nd birthday today. I sometimes like to sneak the odd extraneous detail into book illustrations for the eagle eyed... (& slightly geeky) This is from The Diary of Dennis the Menace - Canine Carnage
Saturday, 7 November 2015
Whales, wine, spacehoppers & unicorns...
Some images I produced for an animation pitch recently - I rather liked them...
...they didn't call back.
(am guessing they didn't like them)
This is very often the way.
...they didn't call back.
(am guessing they didn't like them)
This is very often the way.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Reinventing the Deal - Economist 24th October
Some new illustrations for The Economist magazine issue dated 24th October where I'm attempting to illustrate how newer companies are outpacing older more traditional ones with new business approaches
You can read the article here
You can read the article here
Labels:
america,
buildings,
business,
cars,
company,
deal,
economics,
editorial illustration,
illustration,
reinventing,
start up,
The Economist
Friday, 23 October 2015
Friday, 16 October 2015
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