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It's another sneak preview... This time with colour!
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Monday, 19 December 2011
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas, everyone!
The characters are here, and the book is underway... Are you as excited as I am?!
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Dream sketches
Here are some sketches I've been working on but can't quite get to finished stage. I'm finding a motif of pagan-esque imagery in my work lately, and drawings in this vein are creeping about in my subconscious.
This one is an image I had in a dream:
I'd love to make a series of these landscapes - if you want to see more feel free to commission me! In the meantime, the Lion of St Andrews looks like this:
Nearly ready to start making pages ... As always, I'll be keeping you posted!
This one is an image I had in a dream:
I'd love to make a series of these landscapes - if you want to see more feel free to commission me! In the meantime, the Lion of St Andrews looks like this:
Nearly ready to start making pages ... As always, I'll be keeping you posted!
Sunday, 18 September 2011
Juxtapoz article
One of my favourite illustration magasines Juxtapoz has an article about my work on their website!
See the article here - written by the very talented Laura Hines
See the article here - written by the very talented Laura Hines
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Back from St Andrews
St Andrews was lovely!
Beautiful and sunny (with just a smirr of rain). Very excited to start work on the book in October. Drawings at this stages are mostly quite boring functional notes on details, such as below ....
.... but I should have some photographs coming soon.
In the meantime, here's a picture of little Red Riding Hood!
Beautiful and sunny (with just a smirr of rain). Very excited to start work on the book in October. Drawings at this stages are mostly quite boring functional notes on details, such as below ....
.... but I should have some photographs coming soon.
In the meantime, here's a picture of little Red Riding Hood!
Sunday, 4 September 2011
New book project!
Some excellent news to announce this week - I am soon to start my very first children's book!
I've been approached by Scottish publisher Serafina Press who I first came across at the London Book Fair in April. They are an independent Scottish book publisher which "aims to publish art-driven children's books. These will have a local flavour, with stories to appeal to children anywhere."
Their previous titles are delightful - here's a photograph of my collection:
The books have a strong focus on local legend and traditional stories, while maintaining a contemporary, detailed style of illustrations. (Which, as you might know, is right up my street!) Each book is set in a different Scottish town, meaning I'll be part of a really unique series which has gained the affection of locals across the East coast of the country.
The new book I'm going to work on is called 'The Lion of St Andrews'. It's early days yet, but here are some sketches and concept drawings for the curious!:
I've been approached by Scottish publisher Serafina Press who I first came across at the London Book Fair in April. They are an independent Scottish book publisher which "aims to publish art-driven children's books. These will have a local flavour, with stories to appeal to children anywhere."
Their previous titles are delightful - here's a photograph of my collection:
The books have a strong focus on local legend and traditional stories, while maintaining a contemporary, detailed style of illustrations. (Which, as you might know, is right up my street!) Each book is set in a different Scottish town, meaning I'll be part of a really unique series which has gained the affection of locals across the East coast of the country.
The new book I'm going to work on is called 'The Lion of St Andrews'. It's early days yet, but here are some sketches and concept drawings for the curious!:
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