The Fallen Hero

Former MANOWAR drummer Scott Columbus tragically lost his life in the later part of 2011 and it's been a long time coming, but here's my tribute to the man that played the custom 'Drums of Doom' in a great Heavy Metal band!

He also rocked the mustache like no other!

Wherever you are Scott... keep hammering those skins!

The first FINISHED PIECE of 2012!!!

Record Release Poster for the smashing new(ish) band SURVIVAL GUIDE, produced whilst listening to their 2 downloadable EPs.

Check them out at http://www.facebook.com/srvvlgd

The first sketches of 2012..

Very rough sketches they are too!! but all the same they are seeds of ideas.

What happenend to 2011?

Happy New Year everyone!! (sorry it's a little late)..

What a strange year 2011 ended up being! I've no idea what happened to December!! I've done very little in the way of drawing over the last month and this is largely due to the Masters Course I'm on... Truthfully it's a pretty unplesant experience, and it's completely sapped me of my drive to create. The 2 brief's that we are working on for 16th Jan deadline are research modules, and as such offer me no joy whatsoever... I really dislike research (even if it's a subject I'm partial to)... but to just touch base with you all (and to prove that I AM actually doing SOME research) here is an updated INFLUENCE MAP, which was an exercise I recently completed to try and visualise some of the stronger influences on my (currently non-existent) work.

Appearing (in no particular order) are:

BRUCE TIMM, DEREK YANIGER, BEN CAMPEROS, CRAIG MCKRAKEN, SANJAY PATEL, ALBERTO CERRITENO, BEN NEWMAN, SHAG, SHANE GLINES, BELLE DEE, PAUL FRANK, BOB STAAKE, DARWYN COOKE and GAMA-GO (with TIM BISKUP).

Hopefully things will pick up on the creative front in the short term and you'll have some more pics to look at shortly.

One good thing happened over Christmas on the art front though... I recieved my copy of The Book Of Creation (published by Oracom) with my double page spread in!! Must upload some pictures of it!!

T-Shirt time!

Hi Boils and Ghouls! Have yourselves a very Merry Christmas my friends... and if the New Year finds you with a few pennies burning a hole in your pocket, I can highly recommend one of Red Bubble's splendid T-Shirts... especially seeing as how they have my designs on them! If you click on the banner over on the right hand side of my blog you can take a closer look at the first few designs that I have available there. Alternatively, you can just watch the pretty slideshow for a preview!

I got the above T-Shirt recently to check how they turned out before shouting about them and I'm really happy with the quality and the neat little touches regarding the packaging....

and it's all for a good cause.... ME!

MISSING LINK EXHIBITION IN PARIS

A while back I produced 2 images for the PICTOPLASMA project 'The Missing Link'... Below is an extract from an email I received from Peter Thaler-

We are very honored to herewith let you know that your Missing Link will be part of the main section of the exhibition!

A massive wall in the central exhibition hall will present 500 of the very best entries as unique digital prints, providing full credit to you as the artist.

Should you happen to be in or close to Paris during the month of December, we would be more than delighted to see you there!

WOO HOO!!!!!!

Fish in the water....

Super quick work up in Illustrator!

Fish out of water

I don't know why but I like the framing of this doodle.

Dirty Girls

More doodles!

The Goat

Work in progress!

Where The Wild Things Are sketches

I may have mentioned before that I love Maurice Sendak's book 'Where The Wild Things Are'. It was a staple of my childhood (and now of my Son's). So in an attempt to generate some creativity last week I started doodling some of the characters. What's interesting (maybe) is seeing my process on each page of trying to simplify the images. Will definitely work these up as they 'excite' me a bit!

The girl who sorta liked skulls (a bit)...

Intending to work this one up as I really like the shapes (and the title)!

A couple of Wolfmen

A couple of lupine related sketches!

A Tiny Problem...

Another doodle turned out promising!

Satan's beard

No idea what I was thinking... I was watching X Men Origins: Wolverine at the time though!

It came from the bowels of hell...

for a cup of sugar!...

Do you have any to spare?

Too old for this shit!

Recent sketches

Here's a few of my sketchbook noodlings!... not feeling the love for drawing at the moment... Gee! There's a surprise!!

Next years Christmas Cards?

I did the attached illustration of Santa recently and it got me thinking a bit (not a lot mind you... just a bit!) Here's what I came up with. I was intending to screen print these as my personal christmas cards for this year (that's why they are all 2 colour), but due to my work schedule and current University crisis, I've probably left it too late for this year.

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