Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Rock star hair
Drawing somewhat inspired by Dave Hill of Slade's '70s haircut, A stunning (if rather unwise) barnet that of of late I've become become rather obsessed with for reasons beyond my understanding. There's a certain rather brilliant home-made quality to '70s British glam rockers which makes it all the more endearing...
Labels:
'70s,
electric guitar,
glam rock,
hair,
hairstyle,
illustration,
Noddy Holder,
platform shoes,
rock,
seventies,
sketch,
sketchbook,
Slade
Monday, 23 April 2012
Happy St George's Day!
(I have contributed to suitable dragon-cruelty charities & will politely draw a veil over the fact that Saint George never actually set foot in England...shhhhhhh!)
Labels:
dragon,
England,
english,
ghost,
illustration,
monster,
Saint George,
steve may
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Superheroes Exhibition launch party
Our hero with assorted superheroes
Our hero modelling a very fetching cape (photo Sarah McIntyre)
Photos © Tim Mitchell
Me with the Discover team (photo Sarah McIntyre)
Great launch party last week for the interactive Superheroes exhibition that I just finished working on with the lovely folk at the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford so here's a few photographs of the exhibition (& a couple of me looking silly too!)
Big thanks everybody at Discover for being delightful to work with & for all their brilliant work in making the exhibition work so well
Images courtesy of Tim Mitchell, Arena Illustration & also thanks to Sarah McIntyre, monster illustrator extraordinaire who has kindly let me nick some photos from her blog
More images here
Monday, 16 April 2012
Welcome to Alphabet City!
Animated intro for the interactive Superheroes Exhibition at the Discover Children's Story Centre featuring square jaws, a surfeit of cape-ery & a glimpse of a Super-Villain to boot! See it here
(thanks to Sam Hooper for some great sound design)
Friday, 13 April 2012
Hair gunk...
Love a bit of pomade me! (This is a tiny segment from a new book I've been drawing - but so tiny it won't make any difference if I show you but shhhhhhh!)
I used to have a hairdresser who suddenly overnight became allergic to all such 'product' (as they term it in the coiffeuring trade) very distressing all round - it'd be like me becoming allergic to pencils or something...
( see also 'Look mom, no hands' )
Labels:
children's books,
hair,
hairdresser,
hairstyle,
illustration,
steve may
Meet the Superheroes!
These are the finished comic strips that go with the children's Superheroes exhibition that I've just finished working on. They introduce the superheroes A,E,I,O & U in their battle against the evil vowel snatching villain Y. (all superheroes need a good origin story!)
The exhibition (which makes me wish I was 6 years old again!) is at the Discover Children's Story Centre in Stratford & is open until the 4th November - more details here
Friday, 6 April 2012
ssssssnake...
Labels:
animals,
children's books,
satchel,
school,
sketch,
sketchbook,
snake,
steve may
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