A portrait of my friend’s daughter Sophie. I thought there was something very sweet and gentle about her which I was trying to capture.
Sleeping dogs
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September 1, 2013
Elsie and my parents’ dog Lottie, at night in the kitchen. Because she is my dog, Elsie gets a better basket.
Aldeburgh
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August 21, 2013
I have started using my sketchbook again. I’ve gone for perhaps a year not really doing much of it; I just didn’t want to, so I took an intentional break rather than feel guilty all the time. Which worked really well because for no apparent reason I feel like it again. It’s interesting as well (for me) as my technique has changed from all the storyboarding and illustration I’ve been doing in the interim. Gone is any self-flagellation about using felt tips to shade or drawing too fast. I just got back from a family trip to Aldeburgh in Suffolk (we stayed in Room 101; you know what’s in there) so here are a few sketches.
Kurio storyboard
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June 5, 2013
A storyboard for a pitch for the Kurio tablet, which is aimed at kids. You can see the rest of the storyboard here.
Anthony Nolan storyboard
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June 3, 2013
Some headshots for a pitch for Anthony Nolan, the bone marrow register. On this occasion I got hold of the presentation afterwards, I’ve added a page underneath. You can see the rest here. Sign up to Anthony Nolan!
Mawiage
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May 31, 2013
I got married in March, so I decided to design the invitations. Our first venue was going to be a Greek restaurant, and I have a lot of love for Greece having studied there for many months. After some research I took this metope from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia..
.. and took out Heracles, leaving Athena and Atlas. I painted this..
..and got it printed up with a gatefold design, which once back from the printers looked like this:
The ceremony itself was at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, so I painted this as well (it’s a view of the Pavilion)..
.. and included it in the mail-out. The ceremony invitation was on the other side with a dragon, which I copied from the wallpaper in the room where we were to marry..
.. I like my dragon. Anyway having done all that, the venue fell through with 3 weeks to go, so in a hurry we got these cards printed up for a 2nd mail-out –
– and had an amazing time at a restaurant overlooking the pier instead. To be honest it was worth it though, any excuse to draw ancient greek people.
Vaseline Spray and Go storyboard
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April 3, 2013
A storyboard for Si&Ad at Academy, for Vaseline Spray and Go body moisturiser. It’s nice, they wanted to show that you can use the spray and put your clothes on straight afterwards and to that end hired a dancer to dress really quickly, with no special effects. I think it’s just on US TV at the moment. They didn’t need me to storyboard the woman dressing, but instead wanted to put together a few other images for the rest of the scene. In the end I don’t think they used any of the shower shots!
green pants
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January 10, 2013
Knitting jumpers for my friends’ babies got a bit too time-consuming so I found this pattern on Ravelry (look up ‘Vanilla’). It’s fun to make as there are no seams and it’s quite quick. I think in the US it’s called a soaker (ugh), the baby wears it over their nappy. Obviously making it in machine washable yarn is quite important….
My goddaughter Lana in her new pants. They’re a bit big for her at the moment.
business card roughs
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December 10, 2012
While sorting through some stuff over the weekend I came across all the roughs I did while trying to work what picture, out of all the possible pictures in the universe, I was going to put on my business card. My starting point was that I wanted a person to be in it, and if possible an animal, and I wanted it to be quite vibrant.
One idea I had was to have the business card as one frame of a storyboard – everyone would be sent different frames and you’d have to visit my website to see the whole thing. I was using moo.com so I could have up to 50 different images on one side of the card..
..the middle column of a woman and a bird was the idea I eventually went with.
Lots of faces with different backgrounds.
I kind of liked this playing card idea using a man and a woman..
..and one of the last stages before I got to the finished product. The bird is a Cock of The Rock, a slightly comedy Andean cockerel-type creature.
Morrisons 'For Your Christmas' Storyboard
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November 20, 2012
Here are a couple of pages from my storyboard for this year’s Morrisons Christmas ad, directed by Si&Ad at Academy. You can see the other pages here, and the ad’s on youtube here. It’s meant to depict the reality of Christmas, ie that it’s a bit of a stress, but worth it in the end to see your family all happy.
