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
Thursday 15 October 2015
Facing my Daemons...
Guardian Childrens Books published a lovely article based on the daemons from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy with various illustrators drawing theirs.
Here's my quick sketch, my daemon being an alarmingly permed yeti armed with a carrot & stick & a book marked 'Good Intentions'.
(psst! I have plenty more daemons I feel! Watch this space...)
Here's my quick sketch, my daemon being an alarmingly permed yeti armed with a carrot & stick & a book marked 'Good Intentions'.
(psst! I have plenty more daemons I feel! Watch this space...)
Labels:
carrot,
daemons,
monsters,
perm,
Philip Pullman,
sketch,
the Guardian,
yeti
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Wednesday 23 September 2015
Then there were six!
I've illustrated six Diary of Dennis the Menace so far - nice to see them all lined up together!
Thursday 17 September 2015
The Diary Of Dennis The Menace: The Great Escape! - cover!
Pssst! Here's a sneak preview of the cover for the new Diary of Dennis the Menace - The Great Escape - written by Steven Butler with illustrations by me - afraid you're going to have to wait for 4th February 2016 until you can get your grubby paws on it!
Wednesday 16 September 2015
Felix Frost Time Detective: Roman Riddle
Felix Frost - Time Detective - Roman Riddle by Eleanor Hawken which I illustrated recently has just been published by Quercus books.
"Join Felix Frost, secret boy genius, his chameleon Einstein and his classmate Missy as they travel back in time to Ancient Rome, where terrifying danger and embarrassing togas await."
(as well as chameleons & embarassing togas I also get to draw a toy Yoda, a smattering of chickens & indulge my 'inner Asterix' by drawing some Roman soldiers too! I'm also responsible for all hair styling in the book)
You can get hold of a copy here or better still get off the internet & support your local bookshop & buy it there
Tuesday 8 September 2015
#nameourstorms
There's been a recent idea from the Met Office who are suggesting 'Members of the public are to be given the opportunity to name storms affecting the UK and Ireland.' with the Twitter hashtag #nameourstorms
Surely being British deserves something more...well, underwhelming? A squally shower called Derek? "Nigel' the disappointingly grey August bank holiday?
Surely being British deserves something more...well, underwhelming? A squally shower called Derek? "Nigel' the disappointingly grey August bank holiday?
Labels:
#nameourstorms,
Met Office,
rain,
sketch,
storm,
weather
Thursday 3 September 2015
Cigarette dreams
This blog's been rather quiet while I've been working on the 6th Dennis the Menace book so I thought I'd enlighten you with an extract from a recent rather 'colourful' series of dreams over the last few nights. Among other things I dreamed of 'human finger pepperami' & last night a woman who was in the middle of attempting to smoke as many cigarettes as possible(!)
Over & out.
Over & out.
Labels:
cigarettes,
dreams,
fags,
sketch,
sketchbook,
smoking,
subconscious
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