Cue and a

I was asked by the lovely people at Left Lion to illustration two snooker players fighting with lightsaber cues. The piece accompanies two local players who's likenesses I've tried to capture. Lightsabers and cues are not two words I thought I'd utter in the same sentence.

In the mood for MOOC's

Here's a commission for T.H.E. Fun to do and as always the guys at T.H.E are a joy to work with. It should be out to buy this week! Pick yourself up a copy.

Grades and gradients

A new illustration for TSL Education. These guys are great to work with!

Global academy vs Proust

A new illustration for the upcoming Times Higher Education regarding certain factions of the French higher education and their reluctance to have none french language courses.

Bucket and Spade

An illustration for this weeks Times Higher Education. It makes perfect sense once you've read the article!

3D

An illustration about the 3D movies of 2012. Out of all the one's featured here I'd have to say Wreck it Ralph was my favorite. What was yours?

Rat race maze

An illustration for the Times Higher Education.

Cinderella

Here's a little illustration I did for T.H.E about technicians being the Cinderella's of University staff. Should be out in the December issue which is very exciting. I always  enjoy seeing my work in print!

Balance

This illustration will soon feature in the latest issue of the T.H.E. They're always good to work for as they give me total freedom and very rarely ask for changes. Nice one!

Football psychic

If you've read my last two posts you'd know that I'm in the process of revamping my website and this is my first illustration for my new portfolio. It's based on an article from Footballeditorial.com as I wanted to work from an a editorial source. The reason for this is I wanted an editorial theme as that's the intended market and it lead to ideas I would not have thought of. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The scary part's going to be talking to the art directors and seeing what they think! Wish me luck.

Loaded Magazine feature

This is my lastest work for Loaded magazine which documents the worse ways to woo a lady. Quite a lot of fun to do and some of the stories are very very funny. There's always some negative space left for the header and I hope to post a photo of the image as seen in the magazine next month.

Loaded kindly sent me the last illustration I did for them as they'd laid it out in the magazine. It's out in this months issue so get yourself a copy!

There was an MP who swallowed a horse

I was asked by the Times Higher Education do to an illustration regarding goverment university policey and how they were dealing with the problems was like the nursery rym There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. The turn around for this was 2.5 hours. I would have liked more time on this but that's the way commissions can be sometimes!

The Worlds Worst Jobs

This is a recent commission for Loaded magazine dipicting the worlds worst jobs as described by various readers. The main image is a double page spread but they wanted some of the characters to be seperate so that they could place them on the following pages with the relevent copy. Here are a few.

Chicken collector.

Greyhound trainer.

Door to door salesman.

The stories are actually quite funny so if you get a chance buy the magazine and have a giggle! I'm hoping to get the actual image as seen in the mag but they're quite busy in the Loaded editorial dept so we'll see. Until then here's the main illustration. 

Mail out time

Hello there! I hope you had a lovely weekend. I spent mine socialising and making what at the time seemed like intellectual conversation with all my friends. Looking back it probably wasn't as cerebral as I'd thought at the time. Anyway...

Ever now and then I like to let people know that I still exist by sending them a doodle. This time I've gone for a computer gaming theme which I thought appropriate as I have a few computer game magazines on my mailing list.

The idea came from a conversation I had many moons ago regarding a friend of a friend who'd met her future husband on World of Warcraft. Apparently not an unusual set of circumstances as I had previously thought. Anyway, it popped into my head while sketching ideas. By the way the husband in the story was Swedish and his real name was Krull! He actually sounds like a character from a fantasy world. Wasn't there a film called Krull? Mmm. I might have to ask professor google.

New work

Here's an attempt to make my illustrations a little more bright and snappy. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. Best of all I've finished it early which means I get the weekend to myself. This will involve watching the German Grand Prix and Captain America. Awesome!

Lastest commission

Here is my lastest commission for Whatcar magazine. I do a monthly illustration for their helpdesk section. This illustration was about a bad experience a reader had with a well known road side repairs company.