The Beast.

This is quite an old illustration I did of the Beast from the folktale beauty and the beast...which I found again lurking in my hard drive and decided to recompose and colour. Here is the finished result! Bam.

Your future holds...a massively awesome powder wig.

I was thinking of doing a set of alternative tarot cards, the above being my version of 'The Tower', but I'm not sure 1) If they're working all that well and 2) If I will have the time and lastly 3) if I can be bothered.

I'm still in the rough phrase of my first ever children's book to be published which is still very exciting, and I am also currently re-doing my website, which will hopefully be bigger, better and updated more regularily. Until then...

Hey, You're Dead!

Perhaps this is inspired by the Mexican 'Dia de los Muertos', or perhaps it isn't. The first one.

I do like the idea of a happy death. With trumpets. Once again, this is one where my initial colour studies made the illustration look a lot different to the finished piece.

Dame.

Two versions of one image. I think I'm leaning more towards the first one...I think the black just makes it a bit more striking. And I'm totally all about the strike.

Just trying something a bit different to what I usually do here...

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!

Flamingos.

It's all starting to make sense.

I was actually quite dissapointed with how this turned out. Perhaps I didn't work on it for long enough, or think about it enough, but as it is personal work, and I really wasn't getting a good vibe from it, I decided to leave it as it is and put it down to practice. My colour thumbnails look a lot better, unfortunately. Isn't it always the way...

'Chill'.

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