In awe of James Dean

James Dean is my 1st in a series of male poster icons, which is hopefully going to lead to 2 others and be sold as large scale posters....naturally.
so here is my 1st...

Holiday :)

I had my 1st holiday for many many a year recently. Went to Ibiza (out of season when all the clubby types had vacated the island), was beautiful, so heres a picture of James Dean basking in the sun.

My work in The Big Book Of Contemporary Illustration

I have my first publised work in Martin Dawber's latest book the "Big Book of Contemporary Illustration". Will soon be in boarders, waterstones and all those kind of places. What makes it better is that some friends of mine have work in there too.

Happy Anniversary

How the greeting cards look now, finalised with badge. Will soon be available to buy, and make me some money.

Valentines/ Anniversary - An Improvement

Here are two valentines/ anniversary cards I have designed. When printed and completed in their greeting card form they are going to have heart shaped badges in their chests. Either that or some simular idea. I wasn't happy with the way the they origionally turned out so I OCD'd my way to rephotographing them to now look like this:

Internets back

Well i have the internet and the use of a pc again. I also quit my 55hour a week job so I can get back to illustrating...and being pennyless. Anyhow, Im getting back to doing things, my animation came to a stop with moving house, but now (well when i find the disk with it on) i can get to editing the frames.

Will keep you posted.

Animation coming soon...i hope

I currently have an animation in production, and as it's my first it's taking me some thinking to get my head around the process and the fiddly bits. The model the story is based on is made, and so is the set, now just comes the task of animating it...
...so with some luck it will be up on here in about 2-3 weeks time.
wish me luck.

Sketch book Job Vacancy doodles.

Getting back into drawing down my ideas...

Job Vacancies !

I heard about a open competition for noisefestival.com asking for works that portray something that the artist wants to get off their chest. So, in my current pee'd off-ness I chose to make an image for my current situation- (moneyless, living in someone else's house and unable to get work no matter how hard I try).

So here's me in a months time, working in a fast food joint, even more fed up and going nowhere slowly...

A bit of Beth Ditto

I was asked to attend the opening night of 'Popped' at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester. The idea behind the show is to create an archive of popular culture based works, viewed through teenage eyes. For more information check out the website : http://www.wearepopped.com/

Well anyway it was requested that I do some of my model making while the event was going on. I chose to make a model of Beth Ditto from 'The gossip'. I managed to get her to the point of base coating, but then had to take it away to finish. Here is the resulting image of her:

There are still things i need to change about her...(ie. shes not fat enough). Also i'm not 100% happy with the final photo so that may change too.