‘Merry Giftmas’

I designed/made Christmas cards this year, and did the adult thing and posted them to people.

Theme was ‘Merry Giftmas’

This was one of the designs - a pattern made of all of the other designs. 1600px wide for those who like free desktop backgrounds.

#17 snow cake

Awesome christmas cake i iced. Mums idea, my handy work

excuse the phone photo

#15 books and drawings

i just bought this book, mainly because i searched 'peepshow collective' http://peepshowcollective.blogspot.com/ in amazon

a few members of Peepshow have taught sessions at uni, and they seems to know what they're doing... so i thought id see if they had any books, and this book has them in an excerp... and its kind of everything i like about illustration. the more... designy aspect of it.

Also i got this for christmas. It's pretty awesome. Its all about the more... hand made aspect of graphic design thats been in fashion for a while, anti computer. It has some really nice looking illustrators in it.

There's so many books i want at the moment. :/ The snow is melting. Sad Times.

so this is what i've done so far with my minor:

each length is about one metre by 20cm

the project is about Queues, obviously. I intended on using queues because they are a tangible aspect of Brittish Etiquette that i could go out and draw and watch and study. My intention was to capture aspects of behaviour and body language in my drawings that viewers could associate with.
At the moment i am deciding whether to make it into a book, or present it in a large scale format for wall occupation.  There are more metres to come, Hopefuly i will be able to draw school children, if the snow will allow me before the deadline.

#14 New year, Old work.

I know it's the New year, and everyones thinking about resolutions and the future, but, New year is when i back up my files... so i've unavoidably looked through my old work. (and feel a little ashamed)

here's some of my favourite stuff from the last year or so...

Self Portrait

Book cover Brief

Tattoo Design Commission

Shooting at Metal

Goats

Allotment watching

Jonny the Skin head Seagul, part of a book i did with LeGun illustration in a day workshop

Christmas card. Inside Joke including Pascan Illustration http://pascanillustration.blogspot.com/

I hope this give who ever you are a better understanding of what my work is like... and what i like to do.

i've collected a bit of a back log of work to blog at the moment as ive leant my scanner to someone for a while. but yeh, expect an influx soon.

Also, as its the new year i have started a little personal project that forces me to draw everyday. This is part of the 'Indie Visual Journal' Blog http://indievisualjournal.blogspot.com/2010/01/watermelonjanuary.html so far i've drawn every day (yay) also coming up in the new year is the 'explorer' side project which will be published, and more greetings cards.

I hope you all had an interesting christmas and new year.

#11 the bags have been printed

Here it is. On Sale Thursday 09th December, Prints also availble.

 ...And christmas cards

 

#9 Paris Trip