'Always Hear The Same Shit!', Mini-comic

This was a fun side project I started almost a year ago when a very upsetting incident took place regarding The Tuts and friends. I didn't know how to express my anger in any way other than through drawing. I wasn't there when it took place but it really saddened me. It’s clunky and awkward since I haven’t done anything comic-wise for absolutely ages but It helped me understand what The Tuts and friends had to go through.

Kate Nash Tour Poster Contest

This is my competition entry! Influences are from the 50s, girl gangs and The Tuts, (and Kate Nash of course). You like? Check out the other entries here.

Colour Me Wednesday at Buffalo Bar, London, 13/4/13

Poor Colour Me Wednesday, most of them were recovering from sniffles and coughs they’d caught on The Tuts tour. The theme seems to have been blood red! Couldn’t take any good snaps, these are all I have :(

Jen's in her red short shorts.

Jen face burning away

Cool cat Carmela being cool.

Printing T-shirts and Patches!

Here are some snaps from a batch of printing t-shirts and patches a while back for The Tuts and Colour Me Wednesday. These were sold on the Kate Nash tour. Everyone worked so hard.

Colour Me Wednesday & The Tuts T-shirts/patches

Here are some process shots of some patches, tote bags and t-shirts we're making for The Tuts and Colour Me Wednesday. They'll be sold When The Tuts are touring the UK with Kate Nash in a few weeks.

Ink Sketch: The Tuts

Here is The Tuts gang, consisting of Bev, Nadia and Hat. These will be used for merchandise!

The Tuts girl gang girl

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Just a t-shirt/patch/tote bag/anything else design I did for The Tuts again. An all-girl, 3-piece, raucous punk band. 

Inspiration taken from Switchblade Sisters (1975), 80’s hairdos and The Tuts.

After doing This I started looking at Love & Rockets a comic series by the Hernandez brothers which, deals with similar themes to this  illustration: punk, lots of good female characters and black and white artwork!

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.

Kate Nash & The Tuts, 1/11/12 at The Shacklewell Arms

Went to see Kate Nash and the Tuts at The Shacklewell Arms. Kate Nash was incredible! The Tuts looked amazing in their mermaid themed outfits, but I could barely see Bev Tut in that weird little lonely alcove. So the venue was a bit annoying, but all in all, a great gig.

Kate Nash Ink Doodle

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Just an inky doodle I did. If you look carefully you can see my vain efforts to draw her using a dark pencil. Got angry and rubbed it all out and started fresh using a brush pen.

I might be seeing her tomorrow at The Shacklewell Arms, London. Fingers crossed!).

'Always Hear The Same Shit!’

A commision for The Tuts, an all-girl, 3-piece, raucous punk band. they’re wonderful live.

Breakfast

Mmm, here's yesterday's breakfast, and here's a new song by Dum Dum Girls from their new EP (End of Daze):
Lord Knows.

Colour Me Wednesday Merch!

…and a Tuts patch throne in for good measure. Just wanted to take a few progress snaps, (these aren't very good photos).

My designs have a purpose in life now! CMW have been beavering away relentlessly to get the designs onto t-shirts, and patches. There’s also lovely tote bags that have been hand printed with love too, (very good quality I might add). Need to take pictures of them. If you live around West London go see these crafty, DIY bands live on Sunday at Uxbridge.

Gwen Stefani of No Doubt

...Just because.
Oh and I love this song: Different People.

More T-shirt Designs

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Here are more t-shirt designs I've produced for Perkie, a wonderful folk acoustic musician and Colour Me Wednesday, a melodic punk band.

Colour Me Wednesday T-shirt Design

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

Johnny and the Bomb - Educational Music Book

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I've been working on some black and white commissions for the past few months. This one was from A&C Black and required producing some illustrations for  a musical adaption of - Johnny and the Bomb, A novel by Terry Pratchett. This would be designed for kids between 10-13 so upper primary school or lower secondary school. I think there was a TV adaption of the novel too, I'm sure it's floating around on Youtube somewhere.

This was an interesting one as I had to draw lots of illustrations with a stage with various characters standing in position (stage left, stage right, down-stage centre, etc.) I had to remember that the directions were from the actors point of view...not the audience, so recalled those fun/nerve-racking school plays I did, so it wasn't too bad. Any way, my favourite pieces are the costume ideas and they liked the job I did, yay! Oh! and I got to draw people of various colours, which is always a bonus.

Unicorn In Uniform

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Song by Colour Me Wednesday. Drawing by me.

Ink Sketch - Lana Del Rey

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I woke up this morning really wanting to draw something. I was still in a silly dreamy mood and spent around 45 minutes on this inky sketch of Lana Del Rey, (I must find the source of the wonderful photograph I used for reference), before I ran to work and got there in the nick of time. I’m enjoying how people are finding it so difficult to define her.