Pig and Cupcake. The Final Showdown.

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Sploosh! (And an updated website)

Autumn is coming, my coat is getting wet, please put a penny in the old man's...het? I mean...it's October...and rain...and stuff. Ahem. It's been a long week. Whilst in town I actually saw a child dressed like this go out of her way to leap into a puddle...you hear about this kind of reckless act all the time, but I thought it was one of the most incredible things to actually witness first hand. Living the dream, that kid was, living the dream.

I also did this piece last week as a contribution for Matt Timms' charity fund rasing run for the WWF charity, a charity I feel very strongly about and was delighted to be able to support. There's an etsy stort over here which has lots of different illustrations and sketches created by many different illustrators and animators to raise money for the run, so please check it out! All proceeds go to WWF, so it's a win-win situation!

I also updated my website this week, which has been long overdue (I seriously can't believe how fast time flies), and most of the sections (except for concept art) have new and updated pieces in them, so please, if you have the time, grab a cuppa and have a peruse!

Bye Max.

My dog Max passed away yesterday. He was the greatest dog I could have ever asked for. Nearly 15 years of unconditional love...so long, boy.

Novelist

I have a lot of ideas/techniques flying around my head at the moment that I would like to try out, perhaps too many, so much so that I end up sitting down doing nothing because I'm not entirely sure what to do first. So in an effort to focus, I'm just doing the first things that come to me, without thinking too much about it. It tends to go all pear-shaped when I think too much. I wonder what that says about me. This is one of those things, just trying out different ways of putting images on paper. I hope you like it!

Eeeeeeeeeeee!

Work in progress...

Isn't it always.

Frontier Adventurer's!

A quick coloured doodle-atron. Well, there's the truth of it.

Breathing Space & Hachette Cover Roughs

Corr blummy, what a couple of months! I must apologise for my lack of bloginating, the 'Friendly Fire' Cogg & Sprokit adventure has really had me tied up, but it is now complete and ready to rock! Well, it's already started being published in The Phoenix (I believe we've had 3 of the episodes already!), but all 7 are now done and in the bag, and man; did I love doing it! It was all 'BLAM!', 'KABLOOIE', *emotional scene*, 'SMASH!!' etc etc, and I'm very proud of the litte guy (the series, not Sprokit. Although I'm rather proud of him too) And do not fret, Cogg & Sprokit shall return for an explosive Christmas special, and I maaaay have another comic series in its planning stages, but I'm not sure who told you that. But it's now time to get back to grips with my online personna - that means more blog posts, an up-dated site and I'm really going to smash out a whole load of new children's book artwork too, before all the comic and book deadlines re-appear!

So, to start things off: above are two rough covers I did for Hachette for Hilary McKay's 'Casson Family' series (well, one of the books, 'Caddy's World'). The brief was to have a really messy, fun cover filled with elements that happen in the book, but unfortunately this is as far as it's going to go. The artwork is going in a different direction (though it had nothing to do with my artwork, I'm assured), which is a real shame, but I still had a great time and experience on this comission, and thought I'd show you guys the primary sketches. I did a whole load of them, but these two were my favourite's, I think. I hope you enjoy! So, uh, yeah, catch you later.