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Come on christmas!
I'm working this drawing up into a plate, then I'm going to do some lovely prints of it

As usual this work comes packaged inside an even bigger boxful of work, and so on and so on.

Beauty Beholds

Here is the thee-page comic that I did for our illustrate the news project yesterday. Basically the story revolves around the wife of an MP who stole her husband's mistress's cat. It was a lot of fun drawing such hideous people and I really enjoyed painting it in a this style which is a bit new for me,

enjoy!

CROOKED USAGE GRAND UNVIELING

Drawn of Man HQ has been caught up in a storm of dip pens watercolours and tea drinking recently. In a rare and recent lull I worked feverishly to produce CROOKED USAGE - my monthly comic book magazine. This month's issue is a collection of my first 4 comic strips, plus a few little extra bits I threw in there as well. In months to come they may also feature photography, writing, and boring old non-narrative illustrations, or maybe they won't. I just don't know.

Basically this is a groovy goody bag packed to the gills full of art out of my brain. and it's cheap!

If you're interested, there's  a link to the shop at the top of  the page, or you can get there by clicking here.

First issue's covers look like this:

After hours postcard post

Right right right

Last thursday night was the grand opening of our new arts building at Uni. There were alot of people in suits and it was very surreal to see the atrium transformed into some kind of boozy lecture hall, replete with a podium, waiters and champagne.
My tutors had organised a scheme whereby -for the cost of a stamp - the punters could buy a postcard with one of our illustrations on it. Here are some of my efforts - apologies for the shoddy camera - work.

Haunts of the Poets

Right, so for this project we had to produce images for an exhibition at the poetry cafe in Covent Garden. We went on a couple of drawing days in central london, which was fun, we had to research a poem and then produce a piece/ pieces illustrating the poem and / or incorporate bits of our reportage drawings.

here are a couple out the ol sketchbook;

The prow of the Golden Hinde

 The crazy arches of Borough Market

Millenium bridge as spine, and St. pauls

A pair of identically dressed old men.


and here are the final images, the submissions are reviewed on monday so I'll know pretty soon whether I'm on the wall!

I was inspired by the poem "The london Breed" by Benjamin Zephaniah

CROOKED APPROACH

Hello merry bloggophiles. Unfortunately I don't have anything new this week so I thought I'd dust off the old sketchbooks, leaf through those desiccated tomes and whack something old/new up here.

enjoy

REC

I finally finished the comic I was working on for the observer graphic short fiction prize! I missed the deadline by about  a day...oh well, there's always next year . Then Uni bit down hard and I had to put the whole thing on ice for a couple of weeks anyway, get a load of this -

Paint by Numbers

 These are some oil paintings I did for the second part of our first project. It was nice to use oils again after so long, even if i did underestimate how long each piece would take me.

Types of London

Hey now that I'm back at uni I don't have time for such empty fripperies as socialising, eating properly, exercising or posting on this blog. So excuses made, here are the fruits of my first project.

    

FINALE

The final postcard post is upon us! What a wild ride it's been, spending seventy-five percent of this beautiful weather indoors, scribbling. Hang on I hate sunshine. I suppose, as Jay Z once said,' It's the life I chose / or rather the life that chose me.'

I'm looking forward to returning to uni next week. It will be a welcome respite from my obsessive work schedule ( at uni we have a whole hour off for lunch! imagine that!) of slow summertime decline into mental illness.

It's been really fun pushing myself this summer without any real brief to adhere to. For this one I chucked together a load of disparate ideas, some old some new.

This is the front cover. The little wheel inside the cover spins around, revealing all the weird ideas in the think tank, in a pleasingly 'jolly postman fashion.'

Stop Motion

Hello. This week I spent a couple of days playing around with some old toys I found lying around in the caravan. The result was the pretty ugly, pretty nonsensical test of stop motion, keying (which I did rreally badly) and transplanting bits of my face onto those of tiny plastic people. 

FIGHT NIGHT

This is one from the vaults it's just a doodle I had kicking around but thought I really should post it as I'm trying to keep to my roughly one - post per week rule. I was looking through my sketchbook and thought this little fella was  particularly relevant as I was watching The Fighter yesterday.

 (what i really should have done was pretended that i drew this in response to the film then I could've made out like I was making a wry, ever so witty comment on the childishness / egotistical small - man's syndrome on display throughout the film. let's just pretend I did that, o.k?)

5

Hello, here is the 5th postcard. It is a comic based on real events (no really!) please enjoy profusely. photos of you enjoying this an inordinate amount would be nice also - byeeee x

Wolverton Dreamin'

Yes, that's right! 4th postcard, in the can! In the bag! Under the duffel coat! - no, that one just doesn't make sense -Very exciting! You might want to make it bigger, as the text in the animation will probably be too small on this poxy little thumbnail viewer. It took me about two weeks, sent it off today in its rather alluring little package (evidence of which can be found below.) As with everything animated,  I wound up hating it by the end, but am greatly looking forward to warming to it with time
 - enjoy!

.........we are so very sorry x

Q & A

 What a conundrum?? nighty night

DIVE!DIVE!DIVE!

This was my first animation, one I made way back in last october. I'm mainly putting it up here for posterity's sake - that and I haven't posted anything that recently.

Oh - and how do you like the new look blog?

ISLEMATION

I've moved into a new house in london, there are wide open spaces. A lot of blank wall, must be filled with scrawl. This is an animation about my other house and what living there in july was like - in a roundabout way. My dad makes a cameo appearance as 'my dad.' 

OF MICE AND MICE

This is postcard number 3, or number two depending on what order  I send this one and the other in.

APPLES

Hey massive global audience of fans, sorry for the sporadic post of late but alas, i have moved into an internet dead zone. (But also a lovely house in london town.) It's bee a strange monk - like time. The sad truth that the internet is such an integral part of my life came as quite a blow, I lived happily before the internet, why am I not content with colouring books anymore, why??

Ghastlies and Ghoulies

This is finelinerrrr.

 I did it cos i was freaking out over my other work and i thought it would be more productive than staring at an unco-operative screen for hours. Joke's on me though because 'hours' was the exact amount of time it would take for this sucker to upload. 

I think the mice have got into he internet

Masks and Signs

This was something i did this afternoon when proper work was too dull.

Cat-Dragged

This took days, I broke my mind over it and I'm not really sure it's good enough. Possible postcard.