inkygoodness Beermat Character

Seems like this was done ages ago but what you see above is a lino print that i had made for inkygoodness' beermat character exhibition which was held in London not too long ago.

The general idea involved here was to produce the work onto a beermat which did have some challenges due to its scale.

But because of this using a more hands on approach seemed to be the best COA and so when with a combination of using paint, a lino print and some posca pens for added effect.

Great fun and its got me thinking about maybe doing some more hands on type of work to mix things up a bit.

Tee Design for Made in the Now

I've designed a Tee for the good folks at Made in the Now which pits designers/illustrators to design a T shirt based around the popular current events that happened in the news that week.

This T shirt is only available for limited time, 7 days to be exact so get in there.

http://www.madeinthenow.com/shirt/380.html

Zelda items wallpaper and more.

Anyone who follows me on twitter may of seen the bit of spring cleaning with a new avatar and background based on the piece above.

(update March 2017) it's been over a year since these wallpapers were removed from my website, seems like it was not that long ago when I made this piece back in 2012 which gave it a run of about 4 years of being available to adorn numerous desktop and smart phone screens as a nice background.

I'm glad that there were people who enjoyed using these wallpapers as their desktop/phone backgrounds and I appreciate that. 

Though these wallpapers are never coming back, mostly due to their age but also (and largely) due to the people who thought it was a good idea to steal my work and sell it on whatever product they thought would make a quick buck.

 All in all, it had a good run and if you are still using my wallpaper as your desktop/phone background I hope you still enjoy it.

Digital Artist Magazine

About a month ago i was contacted on doing a short tutorial on making simple stylised clouds, since this would be my very first time of actually making a tutorial it seemed like something i could not pass on.

The illo above was the end result in where I wanted the clouds to act in a more magical/mythical kind of setting. Basically it was just me having fun.

This tutorial and more is in the latest issue of digital artist magazine available to buy now at your local newsagent or other places (including newsstand). 

Tattoo the Girl

made this for the Tattoo the girl blog

tattoothegirl.tumblr.com/

Roller Skates

A personal piece done in the same way as the owl.

Classical Roman Head

A personal piece of a made up sculpture of a Roman head.

illostribute: Jim Flora

Another tribute illustration done for illostribute for the Jim Flora post.

Flora has done some wild and wacky designs but i could to do my piece based on a ruins piece Jim had done.

it also gave me a chance to do something different by going down the illustrating buildings route.

more tribute ills can be seen on the illostribute post:

illostribute.com/2012/03/jim-flora/

Cagoule Magazine

Time seems to be whizzing by so here is a bit of a belated Happy New Year Message an a long overdue post for this blog just to say that things are fine.

Anyway, the two images above were done for the first ever issue of Cagoule Magazine who are responsible for its sister publication Anorak Magazine.

Cagoule magazine is more of an Anorak magazine aimed at adults but has the same level of design flair and content but for an older audience.

What i had to illustrate here was an article on a very brief history of the bra, but what made this a great and fun piece to work on was being unleashed to have as much creative freedom (within reason of course) to produce anything i felt was a perfect fit to the article.

I always try to keep some small parts in the unknown as it adds a certain thrill working out the problem in real time. I guess i'm addicted to having to think up things in a matter of seconds.

Cagoule should be available at your friendly neighbourhood creative book store or can be bought over at PresentJoy's online shop http://shop.presentjoys.com/product/cagoule

Designer Cocktails for Computer Arts

If you have a flick through of the latest Computer Arts magazine, then you may of seen the images I had made for CA.

These were done for the manual section of CA magazine for the Drinks by Design article about if certain designers were cocktails, what would they be.

Stoner Bat

made this for Matthew the Horse and Jon Boam's Spirit of the Animal project blog.

spiritoftheanimal.tumblr.com/

illostribute: Mary Blair

Here's my tribute illustration for latest illostribute post based on the works of Mary Blair and her fantastic conceptual work she had done for Walt Disney.

This one in particular is from Blair's concept paintings of Peter Pan with Hook and Smee Lurking around in the dark.

As usual, there are some amazing tribute illustrations to behold from other contributors to illostribute.

Check it out:

illostribute.com/2011/09/mary-blair/

Privacy

just felt like creating a personal illustration based on a more editorial-esque manner.

this is loosely based around the notion of internet privacy, with more and more people sharing things on social networks private or otherwise. This image depicts a tablet as a window with the viewer pinching open the blinds in an anonymous fashion kind of like a nosey neighbour watching whats going on.

Its a bit cheeky but also a lot of fun, i think i might venture with some more experimentation with photos within my work.

Spilt Milk

think its safe to show this now

This was done a few months ago for some book for Nokia (don't know if its in the wild yet) where they were going to hang the pieces up and then take pics of them to put in said book or something like that.