Masks and Stuffed Toys.

Melancholy, I know.

It was the green eyes on the masks that made me want to do this illustration, the green eyes I tells ya!!

Whilst I'm very busy doing children's book illustrations and development work, I'm trying to fit in a bit more 'editorial' themed illustrations in my spare time just to keep practiced and drawing people. I love drawing animals, and it's great fun to try and put some human personality into the animals, but for my own sake I'm trying to make sure I keep drawing humans as well!

'Chill'.

Trying to convince my mind just to relax a little, even though it keeps telling me it can't...

More editorials...

Aah. Editorial images.

The unfortunate house at the top has become victim to the turbulent house market in the UK at the moment, and the lower image is the Imperial Dragon of China having fun gripping the mountains of Tibet in its awesome, serpent like grip, whilst laughing manically, like a dragon should. Or roaring. Dragons laughter and roars sound so similar to me. I don't know about you.

Whaling

ARGH! Time certainly flies by. Time for another post.

I haven't got a lot of new stuff to show at the moment, mostly because I can't, at least, not until all the various bits and bobs get further down the line. I definately look forward to that day. But in the mean time, here is an editorial illustration I gave done recently concerning the Japanese whaling fiasco which began last year, involving the hunting of hundreds of whales for 'scientific' reasons. I'm relatively happy with it.

On a happier note, I've done another version of this illustration for a clothing company as well as quite a few others which will be released soon, but I'll save another post for that. And I'm a lot happier with THAT version of the above illustration.

In the mean time, however, please, live long and prosper.

Some Fings.

I thought I'd actually better post some illustrations, so...voila!

Firstly, a rather cheerful editorial response to a news piece about Uganda's struggle with what to do with the death sentence in their country.

And secondly, the mighty feathered serpent Aztec god Quetzacoatl. Beware his delightful and heart-warming wrath.

Editorial Illustration

Well, it does seem like a while since i last updated this badboy, so I thought I'd better take care of that. I can't show anything that I'm currently working on until it's slightly further down the line, so I've posted some older illustrations, for your deliectation.

These two are editorial illustrations I did, one for an article concerning the effect the recent Sichuan province earthquake is going to have on China's youth, and a slightly more light hearted one revolving around blondes getting all the male attention. True story? I'll let you decide.

These weren't published, they were just practice illustrations i did once i graduated to keep the ol' pen hand moving. Yeah. A great cheer for Tom and Fran (and everyone else who has given me comments) who have so kindly been following my blog and have told me so.