Soreen Squidgy Fun new activity cards

The penultimate set of Soreen Squidgy Fun activity cards will be available to download this month. As I've said before if you have a young family this is a great resource for you and it's free. Once you've tried it you should let Soreen know what a great idea it was and that they should produce some more, providing they hire the same illustrator again. That's the important part. Without the same illustrator it's a deal breaker! Got it? Good!

Here are a few small snippets from the upcoming activities.

I am currently available for commission so get in touch if you have a project you'd like me to work on. If you want to keep up to date with what I'm working on you can bookmark or subscribe to this blog, follow me on Twitter, or connect to me on Linkedin.

Revisiting old work

 I was asked to rework an old design from two years back which I did for YMCA called Smart Start Club. They'd originally specified what they wanted in the design but the feedback regarding the knife throwing main character (Sporty), the elephant and the lion wasn't favourable. I think attitudes towards circus animal acts have changed over the past few years and as for the knife throwing perhaps some parents were concerned their kid would want to give hurling knifes a go! Whatever their reasons I was asked to make some changes and I was happy to help.

The original art

The amended art

The client seemed happy with the end result and hopefully so will the people buying their product. If you'd like to know more about this project I have talked about it on a previous post. 

I am currently available for commission due to a delay in another job. If you need my help please get in touch. You can also keep up to date with my projects via this blog, by connecting to me on Linkedin, or following me on Twitter. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope the rest of your week is awesome!  

Soreen Squidgy Fun new activities available.

Four new activities are available to download on the Soreen Squidgy fun website. Family Olympics, Bouncing Bunnies, Show Jumping and Target Practice. This means I can share some of the illustrations I worked on!

This is from Target practice.

A small section from Bouncing Bunnies.

A small section from Family Olympics.

If you would like to see the illustrations in their complete state please visit the Soreen Squidgy Fun website and download the cards. It's definitely worth doing if you have a young family and want to get them active in a fun way! 

As always you can subscribe to this blog, follow me on Twitter, and connect to me on Linkedin. These are the best ways to keep up to date with the commissions I'm working on. You should also bookmark my website. Go on! You know you want to. Thanks for stopping by! 

Time management

I would love to talk about how productive I've been this week but it's Christmas and like everyone else I've been sitting on my backside consuming my own body weight in food, and drinking my fair share of alcoholic beverages. I did however find the time in my not so busy holiday schedule to sit down and do a timetable. "Why" I hear you ask. "Surely it's a pointless exercise in procrastination." Well... yes, I guess it is so why the hell would I waste my time like this? There is some solid reasoning beyond not wanting to do any work at Christmas. For me it acts as a visual kick up the bum. January is really busy for me and I can't afford to switch off, not even for a day otherwise I'll be facing one of those 24 hour marathons to meet the deadline. Insert Danny Glover Lethal Weapon quote here.

If you're wondering about the cartoon I thought I'd be fun to add a illustrated element to the post. An illustration blog which is just type would be like a burger restaurant without burgers. Madness!

Click on the image for a closer look!

Hello

Hello. It's been a bloody age since I was last on here and I know you've all been waiting with baited breath for my next post. Well, rest at ease as after a year and half I am back. Where have I been? Glad you asked! Over the last year I've been really busy working on commissions and as is my way social media tends to take a back seat. I'm trying to get better at this as from a marketing point of view going quiet for over a year isn't great. The plan is to update this blog once a week (every Tuesday) with a new post. I've already got another blog but I felt it made sence having two. One for more business related posts. I.e. What type of marketing I'm having a crack at and how it's panning out. Stuff like that. The other as a check out my work type blog which Tumblr is great for. So that'll be all the work I'm really pleased with mainly personal projects and fun illustrations. Why not follow both! See you next week and have a awesome Christmas!

Design up for sale!

My design "Police Line Up" is now up for sale at Pampling! I'll be picking a copy up myself just in case anyone happens to compliment me on my t-shirt so can say "I designed this!" Shameless I know!

Pampling Classic Winner

The lovely people at Pampling have selected my design "Police Line up" as their classic winner, which I'm well chuffed with. I have been reliably informed that it'll be on sale this month. I'll keep you updated!

Practical Lessons

Very recently I did a commission for TSL Education and here it is in printed form. I love to see the finished article mainly because I can show it to my friends and prove that what I do is an actual job. I suspect they think I sit around my house in my underwear, eating breakfast cereal straight from the box while watching daytime quiz shows. That I reserve for my retirement. Right now I’m very keen to get my work in as many publications as possible before it all goes digital! 

Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to leave a comment!  

Available at Redbubble.

"The Original Riddler" is now up for sale at my Redbubble shop. 

Anger Management up for sale!

My Anger Management tee is up for sale at Pampling for the next 48hrs. Pop over and pick yourself up a copy. I love the colours they've gone with!

Behance

I've just opened a new Behance page. Please pop over and appreciate my projects. 

Pampling's new Xpresstee 48h

If you are not familiar with Pampling then do yourself a favour and check out their website. It has some of the best t-shirt designs going! For some time they have followed a similar business model to that of t-shirt giant Threadless but they have now broadened they horizons by offering limited time only deals. Thus the Xpresstee 48h was born, and I am excited to tell you that one of my own designs is going to be featured next week! An exact date has not been set but I will inform you once I know. Stay tuned!

All Design Catalog

I was sorting through some old designs when I came upon my "Smarter than the average bear" design. I thought to myself 'Isn't it a bummer that I can't buy this anymore' and as if the gods of t-shirt design were listening to me I get an email from Woot informing me of there "All Design Catalog" which features my tee! If you missed out on buying my design go do so now. In fact get your friends and family to buy one as well!

Toddlers Rampage up for voting.

Toddlers Rampage is up for voting a Jinx.com. I hope you'll be lovely supportive people and head over to vote! I already have two designs printed by Jinx, but it'd be awesome to get a third. 

Zero2illo live round up

I'm absolutely gutted that I missed this event because it sounds awesome and had some illustrators in attendance whom I admire very much. Oh, well! It looks like I'll have to wait a year until the next one. In the meantime the people at Zero2illo have been kind enough to post a round up of the event with lots of the tasty tips  provided by these industry greats. I hope you find the information herein as useful and interesting as I found it to be.