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Strips & Bubbles
I didn’t read comics when I was growing up. I couldn’t engage with them. I found them frustrating and limited and I wanted to see movement. I wanted to see animation, or in picture books, I wanted to see the … Continue reading
Glue & Fame Monsters
In a previous post I mentioned my Fame Monsters project. I am the ‘featured artist of the month’ at The Printroom Lewes (East Sussex,UK). This means I have my work up on the walls of a print shop for the … Continue reading
Drawing from Fairytales & 2D Character Animation
In March I attended one of Draw’s Drawing Circus events in Brighton. This was a six hour themed drawing session with live music, sets, props, costumes and many models to draw at any one time, all based on Grimm’s Fairytales … Continue reading
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Print Rooms & Caricatures
I really admire how caricaturists can capture the likeness of someone in such exaggerated drawings. It is quite a skill. Being able to recognise which parts of a face offer themselves for exaggeration seems easy enough, but retaining the personality … Continue reading
Ripped Pages & Monsters Under The Bed
Monsters under the bed are important. They are important in our childhoods, telling us we can still find sleep despite the sharp fangs and claws plucking at the bed springs beneath us. But to me, and many people like me … Continue reading
Shadow Monsters & Alcoholic Horses
Illustrating limericks has been my main task over the last couple of weeks. So I’ve been drawing lots of ‘young men from… somewhere’ amongst other things for a collection from Marcus Wortley and published by IndePenPress. Six of the drawings from … Continue reading
Super Elephants & Messy Dogs
I was between bigger projects earlier in the week, waiting for feedback, so I had a look at some other ideas I’ve been playing around with. I’ve noticed that ‘Super Elephants’ is one of the most popular search terms leading … Continue reading
Culture Clashing & Little Red Taxi
I’ve been asked by a student of Central Saint Martins College to contribute a comic as part of her final exhibition. Shahad Abulainain is studying an Ma in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments (http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/courses/ma-cpne/). Her project is concerned with the duality of … Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes & Folky Boy
Amongst the chaos of Christmas and preparing to move Southwards again, I’ve managed to squeeze in a couple of illustration projects. One of these was a series of page layouts and character designs for a proposed folky children’s book. The … Continue reading
Clouds & Nightmares
A professor creates a ‘cloud formula’ in a land without clouds. And then the formula is stolen. That’s the main thrust of Professor Doppleganger and the Fantastical Cloud Factory, the story I’ve been illustrating for the last week or so. … Continue reading
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