Drawn in Bristol

Great news!  I'm now part of the Drawn in Bristol illustration collective - click here to see my work on their site.

I'm hoping to become involved in some of their exhibitions around the city, so keep an eye out here and on my twitter page for updates.

Article for Design Juices

Hi everyone,

The lovely people at Design Juices approached me recently to see if I would like to be featured on their website.  Of course I obliged!  Click here to read it: Design Juices Article

Fairy Circle

Airbourne circus

Drawing another page for my circus story.  Now trying to work out how all these little elements could become airbourne...

Raining

And now for something completely different...

Recently discovered an incredibly easy way to animate the colour layers on Photoshop, meaning I can turn my thumbnail sketches into little moving pictures.  So much fun!

Netsukes and daguerrotypes

I've been warming up my new moleskine with drawings of my two favourite things at the moment - Victorian daguerreotypes and Japanese netsukes:

Netsukes were teeny tiny little sculptures, usually ivory, used as a toggle to fasten the inro (small boxes) which 17th century Japanese men wore instead of pockets.  It's amazing how such a practical and unassuming thing became such a statement.

The daguerreotype, invented in 1839, was the earliest method of photography. It was incredibly time-consuming, and because you would have to sit still for such a long time, the portraits always look so still and solemn - they even used special head clamps to keep you in place.  It was replaced pretty quickly by easier and faster methods, but the notable things with deguerrotypes, is that they could only ever make one copy.  It's kind of the exact opposite of a selfie.

 

The Bears are out there...

Hello everyone! 

So here I am again, book-free, and it feel very strange... Just like after the release of The Lion of St Andrews, am feeling both relieved and a little lost all at once, without a big looming deadline.  Now that the book is out there in the world, all the bear news will be over on the Facebook page, here: facebook.com/bearoftheeastneuk

Pop over for a visit, and tell your Scottish friends to look out for bears next time they are in Fife :)

 

Sailing Bear of the East Neuk

The book is finally finished!
It is being printed at this very moment - expect to see some more photos from the launch in April. Exciting stuff :)

Coming soon...

It's nearly time for the East Neuk bears... Exciting times ahead - stay tuned!