Get Mega!

A little illustration and logo for my Electro / Hip Hop night down here in Cornwall. I've been wanted to create a character with a nice big gold chain for a while now and, since creating the image for Block Interactive (in the Portfolio,) I have been enjoying using super bright colours so this seemed the perfect opportunity. It's something that six months ago I would never of imagined I would do.

There's also some super subtle flat coloured 3D work in this image too, something I have been experimenting with recently! More on that soon...

P.s the prints at my exhibition are selling nicely so if you want one don't leave it too long!

A lick of paint...

The sun's finally out, maybe summers here! Nice timing too as I've just finished giving My Broken Shoe a fresh lick of paint... or I guess, pixels. Hopefully it's a bit more friendly in feel, light and airy. Everything is pretty much in the same place so links should work but if you come across any hiccups feel free to drop me a mail or pop a comment in here.

Special thanks to the folks over at Newstoday for the help and feedback on the new design.

But wait that's not all! - I have also uploaded some new work for Sainsbury's Magazine, Sight and Sound and The Big Issue. Point your mice over toward the portfolio section link above to have a peek.

Oh and yep that is my handwriting, good huh? Have an explore, hope you enjoy it.

Behind the Scenes

I sent over my submission for the new If You Could... book this morning, fingers crossed it will be acccepted.

I had been trying to sort out an image for it for quite a while but had many false starts and dead ends. The main problem was I was just drawing things for the sake of drawing them rather than having a solid concept.

One of the ideas that I eventually rejected had me selling ice creams to characters from history. Whilst this sounds good, it was too difficult to decipher this from the image. Why am I telling you this? Mainly because I was pretty pleased with how the characters turned out and rather than consigning them to the shelf I thought folks may like to see them. So freshly dusted and in various stages of completion I present some retired characters and a spot of type:



A saracen warrior, he was going to be best friends with the Richard character I posted previously. (he was also part of the ill fated idea along with the mammoth) I am particularly pleased with how his clothing turned out.



The chap is from 101st Airborne or Easy company
and appears to be missing a hand.



A very rough Queen Victoria and a Centurion.



This was a bit of type I created for the image, it still needed alot of work but there was something nice about it, pleasantly unbalanced. It's an element I would like to incorporate into more of my work. There is something therapeutic creating your own font rather than using one off the peg.





Lastly these are the 'sketchbook' bits that the other images are created from. Phew that was a big post! Update to the main site soon.