The Peacock

Here's my submission for this year's Animation Art Show! I used watercolour and gold inks as the medium. It will be auctioned off, along with all the other artwork, on April 17th in the Ark to raise money for charity.

Ellie the Ace Comic

Here's a comic I made last year of Ellie the Ace as part of the development and promotional materials. I really enjoying getting a chance to make the comic. I learnt a lot about how I want to handle the characters.

Year of the Monkey

 

Print available

Beautiful Bowie

Print available

Sailing illustrations

 A little series of characters that are promoting sailing

Shadow on the Snow

Sadhbh, Shadow on the Snow

The final illustration of my Ranger, Sadhbh, for the Light Grey Art Lab Rolemodels game.

You can get each image as a print, see mine here, or you can get all the illustrations as a deck to play the game with here!

It was a lot of fun being part of this and seeing all the different characters created. If you want to see more of my prep work check out my tumblr.

An Island

This is a short comic made for the Observer/Cape comic competition (the runner up is my favourite - I, Yeti). This is my first try at a comic and it's certainly not perfect, but it has helped me to find a way of working. Having a deadline certainly helped me to focus although as always I would have like to have had a bit longer at the end.

I roughed this out quite tightly, then drew the final lines in pen. In the end I think my drawings were too tight, so next time expect to see a bit of a difference. I'll play around more with techniques for the finished look.

I uploaded my thumbnails and early sketches onto my tumblr so you can see the progress. The longer I worked on it the more I got to know the character and in turn improved the writing.

Would love to hear any feedback. I will certainly try to do another short comic some time soon.

Tank Girl

This is a picture of my childhood hero* Tank Girl made for the Boulder Media art blog.

This was the first time inking digitally and it took me a while but I'm pleased with how it looks.  I enjoyed doing this picture but really made me miss all of my tank girl comics!
Like a super nerd I included a couple hard-to-get refs to the comics. If you can spot them (there's 3) then you are award the title of fellow super nerd.

*well... teenage hero

Closet Monster

My picture for the Bouldermedia Art blog, the theme this month was 'monster in my closet'.

Practising more with watercolours, I ended up fiddling with this too much, but a slow improvement.

Sleepy Hallow

Did a picture for the Boulder Art Blog that I'm contributing to. The theme was witchy women and the Tim Burton 'Sleepy Hallow' sprung to mind. Its a film where practically all the female characters are witches so its no wonder I thought of it.

This is the two witch sisters in the woods when then meet the Hessian and future headless horseman.

Painted Presents

I made two little painted pictures to give as presents recently. Octopus & bumblebee. Good combination.

done with watercolours and a pen :)

Little Watercolour Monster

Some watercolour sketches of the Little Monster I posted before. The small drawings are really wee.

Tea Fae

"Here, have a cup of tea" is one of the greatest sentences ever said out loud.

This is a little commission I did for a friend. It should be pretty self evident from the title whats going on. Watercolour and pen and stuff.

Apple Blossom Fae

I realise this is bordering on the kitsch but.... Ok I don't actually have an excuse other then I like it. Its nice to be watercolouring again too.

Wedding Invitations

A little while back I did some illustrations for my cousins wedding invitations. Now they are all sent out so I'm going to post them up here.
I did them just ink on paper.

Here is some of the little bits I did for the inside and extras of the card.

City Bunnies

A busy day in the capital.

This is a watercolour illustration, just extending on from drawings I have be sketching featuring bunnies. I would like to make more in this style, but I'll just have to wait and see.
(The colour and contrast is a little harsh on my monitor, it looks softer in real life.)

At the Window

Another in of the same. She's on the bus :)

Lady with Umbrella

Another lady in the snow. More drawing, colouring pencil and photoshopery.

I find it a bit frustrating working in photoshop now, I think it would be easier doing it on a desktop instead of a laptop. Or maybe its just lack of practise.
Sorry to those who have to put up with my rants...

Lady in the snow

A quick sketch I drew and then did a bit of colour work to it in photoshop. Pretty simple but the first time in a while I have done anything with my sketches. I have a few more drawings of this lady that I'll post up in due course.

Dreaming of Tall Tales

Done for a children's illustrator club theme of 'Dreams'. acyrlic on paper.