Wishing You a Spooky Animated Halloween!

I’ve been rather enjoying putting my animation hat on again & having some fun with it. I recently made a video for my band Cult Figures which has been selected to screen in competition in the Music Video category of the London International Animation Festival (LIAF) 2026 which was a nice surprise when frequently making new work feels like bashing my head against the wall!
 

A Bitter Disappointment.

There MUST be a German word for that bitter feeling when the expensive coffee you have to buy because everyone’s bought the cheaper one is definitely inferior?!?

'Treat?'

 

A bit of Halloween fun for you all!
I thought I'd include some of my process here from the original drawing to the digital colour. 

With this one I drew it with a dip pen & indian ink  (Winsor & Newton ink & a Leonardt 256 nib if anyone's interested!) 

With this piece I didn't draw a rough I just drew it from scratch - mistakes stains & all - on horrible cheap paper! Cheap paper is extremely liberating but makes it less desirable to sell the original drawing to to anyone! 

Next step is scanning it & using Photoshop to lose any unwanted marks & occasionally a couple of alterations although I haven't done much to this apart from shift the signature down.

After that I use Photoshop to colour the image using a mixture of custom brushes & some scanned ink textures 

Ghost Pants!

 

Halloween cat

 It's been a funny old year but I love drawing Halloween-y things at any time of the year really so here you go!

Peturbed ghostie

Flappy ghost

The Haunted Lunchbox

The Haunted Lunchbox or... when good foodstuffs go BAD!
With a little nod to Wagon Wheels (which even as a kid I thought were foul) & Um Bongo, which according to legend they drink in the DRC - except this doesn't rhyme / scan in quite the way it did in the slightly naive / racist  '80s commercials!

I'm thinking this would be a great book title, I just haven't come up with the story yet, so here's the cover while you wait...

The Haunted Pipe & other stories...

Just in time for Halloween (what do you mean you've never read the Haunted Pipe?!?!)

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!)