Some more life drawing.
Red Whippet
Posted by – 13 June, 2011
It’s a whippet! I’m told that I’ve managed to create a creature that doesn’t look entirely like any one member of the animal kingdom. I also think it has an air of the evil penguin in Wallace & Gromit about it. I don’t care; as my first attempt at anything more than a hamster in amigurumi, I am proud. Thanks to June Gilbank for the patterns.
MyStyle Jewellery Storyboards
Posted by – 9 June, 2011
Here’s an extract from a recent storyboard. The client was MyStyle and the product is a make-it-yourself jewellery kit. They’re the same people who make the Wild Science kit – it’s aimed at young teenage girls. In these frames the girls make necklaces etc. from the various different kits you can buy. You can see the complete boards here.
Eliot, Orla & Magnus
Posted by – 8 June, 2011
Here’s another commission from just before we went to Greece. These are the children of a friend’s brother; his wife asked me to draw their portraits for his birthday.
First we have the head of the pack, Eliot:
Here is beautiful Orla:
And this is the adorable Magnus:
Blue Star
Posted by – 2 June, 2011
A couple of sketchbook pages, the first one from the Blue Star ferry on the way from Athens to Paros..
..and here is the lovely tortoise who lived between our flat and the neighbour’s on the island.
Paros
Posted by – 31 May, 2011
Hello folks – I’m just back from a lovely 2 weeks in Greece. Here’s a project I’ve been working on this Spring. Some friends of mine from the wonderful art school I attended 5 years ago on the Greek island of Paros (the Aegean Center for The Fine Arts) returned there this May to be married. The bride, Maria-Elena, is Greek, so the ceremony was the real Greek deal. They commissioned me to make a map of the island and streetplan of the main town where we lived and studied (Parikia), with annotated illustrations of their favourite places. The groom, Brett, a great writer, provided the words.
The finished item was printed as a double-sided A3 leaflet, a copy of which went to every guest. Pictures and words were drawn out full-size in pen, painted with gouache and edited in Photoshop. Click on the images to see them closer…
Wild Science Storyboards
Posted by – 22 April, 2011
Here’s an extract from a storyboard I did last month for the ‘Wild Science’ range of cosmetic products, aimed at young teenagers. The idea is that you create your own beauty treatments using a kit; in this ad the girls are making various concoctions and trying them out on each other.
Click the images to enlarge. Or you can see the complete storyboard here.
Life drawing
Posted by – 18 April, 2011
A selection from my last few weeks of life drawing. It’s constantly challenging, but I love it.
Something red
Posted by – 16 April, 2011
The amigurumi obsession continues.. what do you think this is going to be?
Return of the blog
Posted by – 15 April, 2011
My blog’s been broken for a couple of weeks but is now fixed, hurrah. I’m quite busy with a couple of commissions at the moment (will post when completed) but in the meantime here are some sketchbook pages.
This is the dining room of the hotel we went to for Mother’s Day – pretty middle-England, overlooking a dual carriageway.
And a couple of sketches from the recent Book Of The Dead exhibition at the British Museum.