Chinese New Year

I produced this disembodied chap to celebrate the Chinese year of the dragon. I tried using a white background, felt a little weird being parted from my usual vintage paper look, not sure if I like it or not. The colours definitely POP more.

2012 Resolution

To all of you who have made a New Year resolution and are feeling the week 3 blues.

Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials'

Wow, it has been far too long  since my last post. I know this is very late but I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!

I produced these book jacket designs for Eastwing Illustration Agency's collaborative publishing project. Each Eastwinger chose three book jackets to illustrate, I went for Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' series. I kept the colour work very simple and tried not to over complicate the image. Overall I'm quite please with how they cam out.

I really recommend checking out Eastwing's Publishing Project, there are some fantastic pieces.

Rudolph

Penguins

After my last post I felt that I didn't quite nail the colour work (always room to improve). So I spent an evening playing around with colour combos, textures and characters. Really happy with the result.

Too Early To be Christmas Blog Post

Here are a couple of Christmas illustrations I've been working on. I reverted back to my adobe Illustrator style and am really pleased with the results. There is a constant battle in my head between producing digital and 'handmade' artwork. Most important thing is that I and the viewer (you guys) enjoy what I'm doing, and if that's digital then no worries.

Armistice Day: Lest We Forget

Talking The Legs Off A Donkey

I did this piece to accompany a Q&A for my agency's blog. I'd like to dedicate it to my neighbour's donkeys who were cockerels in another life. EEE OOORR! is not the best thing to be woken up by.

Child's Play

Recently did some self-initiated editorials for my portfolio. This piece is in response to an article about the ever decreasing space for children to play outside, thanks to housing development and policy reversals  by the new government. Interestingly the article had statistics that showed children would much rather climb trees, ride bikes and play football then play video games. Here's hoping.