Rushmore

Took a while this one, due to the unexpected difficulty of aligning Lex's features correctly and various other distractions. What to do next, I'm not sure?

On the streets of London...

... you can find some of my Illustration work. At Portland Place, opposite the Chinese Embassy is a 24/7 Peaceful protest against the persecution of Falun Gong in China, under the Communist government. The protest has been there for about 7 years now, my art work has been used for the last year or so, I feel quite good about it :)

Tough Nut

There's nothing harder than a skin head, to draw that is. This one is really testing me, had to start all over again once already.

Nina

T'was fairly quiet in the Bookshop today, so quiet in fact that I managed to sketch this fine line portrait of the lovely Nina Simone. Drawn from a photo on an album cover. My colleague and I sat there sketching like a pair of contented school children, quietly scribbling away, oblivious to the world around us, and our customers.

Mighty Bootch

Made this very afternoon, while listening to Hot Chip and Mr Scruff.

Process

Paintings process documentation.

Poker Faces

Will post something more interesting soon, in the meantime you can Click Here to see some swift sketches of some friends of mine.

Owen - Finished

This piece didn't quite turn out as planned. However, I'm pleased with how it holds up under close scrutiny. The reason its so dark is due to the hazy, pixelated photo I chose to paint from, not a sensible idea I've learnt.

Just playing around with photoshop effects, I liked the look of this variation, it shows Owens bone structure better and looks a bit 'Sandman, King of Dreams-esque'.

Owen

Work in progress, proving quite tricky to get right. Will eventually be watercoloured and inked.

Had quite a change of tack recently, giving the childrens/political illustration venture a rest in favour of some good ol' portrait painting. Exhibition in the pipeline :)

Bubble Baby

Quick snap of a painting I've been working on this week. Painted from a photo of my Nephew in the bath with bubbles. I'm hoping to get enough portrait work together to exhibit locally and attract some commisions.

It appears that the work I've posted so far has been stylistically inconsistent, I guess its a bit of a phase I'm going through at the moment. Hopefully things will start to level out a bit more soon.

Vincent - A-Level Piece

A quick response to compliments from a fellow student back in the 6th form. This Acrylic painting stands at about 90x75 cm. What d'you reckon Vince?

Shop Magic

The week just past has seen me working full time at bookshop. During quiet moments I took to staring out of the shop window and quickly sketching passers by. The relationships between the hat, collar and glasses lines, which all worked together to frame peoples cold little faces, were most interesting. Above is one page of male pedestrian heads.

Being quite pleased with one particular sketch, I decided to wrench it off the page and see what effect giving it some colour would have. I wasn't too impressed with the results, no added impact or novelty, so feeling defeated I did the usual "lets see what difference photoshop texture effects may have on it".


GEMS!! I don't want to blow my own trumpet but I never been so impressed with the texturiser tool! The far left one is my favourite.

Note: It is a brave man who ventures out wearing a bright yellow woolly hat, a brave man.

Notebook sketches

Some quick people watching sketches scribbled down whilst waiting at Liverpool St station last Sunday. These peeps were standing in the cash machine queue and drawn with a rather dry blue Biro that I picked up for 25p.

Placeo Prozac Illustration

Heres my latest Illustration for the Epoch Times UK newspaper, published today!

The news yesterday reported that Prozac is no better than a placebo. We (the Editor and I) agreed to draw on the effects this may have on the big wigs who run the Pharmaceutical industry. When trying to come up with something for this I initially wanted to include some reference to the bands The Verve ('drugs dont work'), and Placebo, but couldnt work out how to bring it all together, so settled with an image of the depressed Pharmo Fat Cat at his desk.

Here's the initial rough sketch.