#20 childrens books

Upandcoming: been asked to illustrate some childrens books for a friend. only ever did one childrens book before and that was on my Foundation (age 18/19)...but i'll give it a go, one is about a mouse who lives in a windmill and wears clogs, and the other about a litle girl and the noises she hears, They're very well written, an i look forward to the challenge.

So thinking about the foundation book, i went and had a peruse through my hard-drive and it must be destiny, LOLZ i lost all of my foundation stuff in the 'great hard-drive crash of 09' but this survived. duh duh duhhhhhh.

So yeh, i thought i'd share it with all of you, because i thought i hated it, but... now i've looked at it for the first time in 3 years, i kind of quite like it, i might print it off at uni while is still have the chance...

oh but yeh the words were attrocious, so here are just the original illustrations:

Also i have joined a Collective called 'Whirlygig' you can follow us on facebook, link is in the sidebar... or if you're lazy like me... its here... WHIRLYGIG COLLECTIVE

lemme know whatch'all think :)

#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.