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.