'Story Sharers' - Community Project

Made a small contribution to a local community project about, well people sharing their stories I guess. Stories people have been told as children, stories written by children; personal stories, all sorts. A selection of these will be published in a small book for people to buy locally. I’ve illustrated a few of them, here are some of my faves.

Kate Nash Signed My Sketchbook!

Kate Nash signed my sketchbook! This was when The Tuts were supporting her at The Shacklewell Arms. Picking an animal from it, she said she quite like bongos, haha. I gave her that ink doodle I did of her in return.

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Hiya,

Any excuse to draw animals.This was a book cover I did a while back. I don't know if I made a mistake by making it monochrome. Hmm.

Colour Me Wednesday T-shirt Design

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Here's a band t-shirt design I did for Colour Me Wednesday.

Spitalfield City & Hackney City Farm

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Really wanted to draw animals, so I dragged my brother and a friend along to these small but beautiful, (and very smelly) farms. I remembered why I drew dead animals in museums, (they don’t move). The best part of the visit was of course the working farm cats! There were signs asking not to pet them…I petted them.

Oryx and Crake: Book Cover Design

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Just finishing off reading this book by Margaret Atwood and thought I’d do a book cover for it. I readThe Handmaid’s Tale first and fell in love with her vivid style. Maybe I’ll do a cover for The Handmaids Tale too.

Tigers!

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I wanted to play around with a simple colour palette for once. I’ve included some process/detail images here too, because it wasn’t so messy/embarrassing.

Oh, and here’s a song by Best Coast: The Only Place - from their new album. It reminds me of the sun, Hope you enjoy!

Unicorn In Uniform

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Song by Colour Me Wednesday. Drawing by me.

The Wolf Sisters

I've been feeling ill lately and wanted to distract myself. I was working on this, on and off, in between a couple of commissions. I also watched The Grey… I don’t think that the wolves were given any credit! I just wanted to make them look less vicious and snarly, like they’re always drawn.

Just Atmospheric Silhouette Stuff

Very very sunny!

Here are some illustrations I did...indoors. 

I quite enjoy creating silhouetty-like stuff, You can create very eerie atmospheric art by simply layering shapes and receding colour (very very easily!). The piece right at the  bottom was experimental, just having fun. It was inspired by a print I saw somewhere. It was of a painting of one of those kitsch rural scenes of countryside, lakes and trees. I wanted to include a Fox somewhere, (and text) but it just wouldn't fit into the composition so I made a whole new one - The Fox Mum. It's quite a nostalgic piece as it reminds me of a cartoon I used to watch called 'Farthing Woods', with a family of foxes and other woodsy animals like badgers and Wolves. 

Dick Whittington Activity Book

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Oxford University Press is revamping a series of activity books entitled Incredible English. The activities are based on different fairytales from around the world. They’ve kindly commissioned me to do a spread for them. These books have been designed for those kids who are generally ahead of their class.  Apparently they’re popular in Turkey, Spain Argentina and Poland!

All the artworks were tiny panels of varying sizes; here are some of my favourites.

Animals 'n Stuff

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these are some ink drawings I did a while back. I scanned them in and played around with them on PS. I'm currently working on some panels for an educational book commissioned by OUP. It's just a few pages but  I'm working on the story of Dick Whittington and his wonderful cat.

Inky Stuff

Yellow,

Some stuff I've drawn recently when I should have been working. I don't know if I've mentioned already, but I got a small commission doing some panels for OUP. A the moment I'm doing stuff on Dick Whittington. I'll be getting another story soon.

(Illustrations: some animal studies and a sketch of Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls)

Yawning lion

Hey Choo!

I've got myself a tablet now.

Yeah, just practising and getting used to the new tablet. I'm feeling sleepy now. I've been working on that B/W commission I got. I've been really busy lately since mum's gone to Hajj.

Here's a sleepy lion I drew using the tablet.

Library Doodles

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doodles I did at work yesterday.

Cat in Snow

Cat enjoys snow.
Listening to Emiliana Torrini:
Today Has been Okay.

Cats Eyes

Beware the cat.

Sketchbook: silly stuff

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More stuff from a small sketchbook. Some of it's from the Natural History Museum, other stuff, like the inky stuff was just doodling for fun creating dragony, zombie-ish, foxy stuff.

Listening to Lykke Li, particularly this song: I follow Rivers. A very haunting song that seems to creep into the folds of my brain, but strangley elating. The video is beautifully simple.

Black Beauty

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I did this sample for someone. It's an illustration of the beautiful horse from the above mentioned title and a 10 year old boy character. It was difficult doing the boy, I don't think he looks 10! I'm gonna have to read it properly,  I've sort of just skimmed it. I've heard It was a very insightful piece of work when it was written, and still is very meaningful. The story is written by Anna Sewell.

Sketchbook: Doodles and Ridiculous Stuff

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I've been doodling and also playing around with ink. These are scans of some of the pages from my current A5 sketchbook.