Poison Ivy

More work ups from a recent sketch. Very happy with the speed at which I'm producing these right now. This one took 2 hours maximum, and that's pretty damn fast if you ask me! Does the speed with which I put this together devalue the image?... I wonder if it does.

Strange brew...

Another work up from a long forgotten sketch. Having fun with the textured backgrounds, they're definitely adding a new dimension to the finish of my artwork.

HANG 10

Another sketch from last year finally worked up! Pretty happy with this too if I do say so myself! Adding the texture into the backgrounds of these recent images have really added a new dimension to my work.... SWEET!

Ghost poster(s)

Yet another forgotten sketch from months ago... I put together the bottom version of poster (with his arms out) straight from the sketch, but never really liked the pose that much. I played around with it for a time then decided that the best way of depicting the arms was to... err... NOT depict the arms! Thus, the 'alternative' poster was born... and I really like this pose... it's a little 'cheeky'!

The Bride's true love...

A work up of another old sketch I found lying about (in a virtual sense that is!). Decided to set myself a 30 minute time limit on this one (just for fun)... and it came out much better than I was expecting. I think that sometimes you can get too bogged down in the details of an image and end up not having as much fun with it!

I had fun doing this one!

Zombie in progress

I did this sketch back in September last year and promptly forgot about it (what with one thing and another)... but i've been working on a secret project recently and I came across it again. Here's a work in progress digital render of it. I'm just waiting for the band to start touring their forthcoming record so I can add some tour dates and get it finished!

Eat Me...

As part of the Masters, a small group of us descended on Liverpool back in November and were universally unimpressed and ever so slightly angry at the terrible exhibition taking place at the TATE Gallery celebrating ALICE IN WONDERLAND. The group decided to react in the best way we know... by creating our own artworks (with a view to exhibiting them ourselves... an Anti-Alice Exhibition if you will!) Above is a sketch done by my friend and colleague Mr Phillip Evans as a work in progress image. I liked it so much I asked if I could re-interpret it myself... and here it is... in all its technicolour glory!

NEW for 2012!

New book boils and ghouls!

Electric Wizard

Had a GREAT day at University just printing out some of my posters ready for Monday's assessment. Even found time to reuse a previously posted image (with some slight tinkering) for another mock poster, this time for UK DOOM Fiends ELECTRIC WIZARD.

HUNTRESS

Here's the worked up poster for an upcoming HUNTRESS gig based on a previously posted sketch. Starting to feel good about my work again at the moment! (SHHH... Keep it to yourselves though!)

BLACK MOTH

It's funny how an idea evolves. When I did the sketch of the "Bride's" head I was thinking of producing a poster for Zombina And The Skeletones or Psycho Motel. The shape of the head when mirrored reminded me of a heart shape (just in time for Valentine's Day)... and then I came across the band BLACK MOTH and all of a sudden the shape looked less like a heart and more like a moth... I added in the skull and began playing with the colours to best represent the band (and the amazing artwork on their debut single) and the above poster was born!

It's fair to say that this was heavily influenced by the amazing work I saw at The Richard Goodall Gallery last week too!

Promises

Here's the first sketch I did in my new sketchbook, and it's one of the best drawings I've done in a long time... really pleased with her.

Love is electric

Another train sketch (and an idea for a gig poster/t-Shirt design).

FOOOOOMMMM!

A sketch done on the train to Manchester last Friday.

On the Hunt(ress)

What a terrible pun! Anyways... It's the usual story that i've been busy writing and researching for the Masters and as a result my actual creativity has suffered once again!

However, I came across a new band called HUNTRESS (above) and decided to have a go at a poster design. Here are the initial sketches (one of which is seriously indebted to Bruce Timm) for possible work up.

I went over to the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester on Friday to take a look at the exhibition there and was really inspired to get back into producing Gig posters... so hopefully you'll be seeing a few more pop up from now on.

Vampire's Everywhere

Because I've been researching Character brands for the Masters of late, here's an experiment that I quite fancy doing some more with. I wanted to create a cute character in the style of Hello Kitty, yet (as is my want) have a horror themed link with it... So here's my first attempt (and some initial design layouts too).

What do you guys think? Is it worth me pursuing the idea any further?

The Cat in the Hat

The TINY ART Flickr group theme for this month is 'Dr Seuss' and here is my digital render of The Cat In The Hat. The cool thing about TINY ART is that contributors create original pieces in a 2.5 x 3.5 inch format to trade with one another in the group. I'll have to scan the hand drawn version of this in to post it before I mail it off to the States for trade so you can see how terrible my drawing actually is!!!

Back from the dead...

It's been forever, but a very, very, very, very long time ago I did some artwork for a British Horror Punk band called The Dead Pleasures... I've FINALLY got round to photographing the evidence to prove that I was actually used (and I didn't just make it up!)...

Dead Pleasures: A Chorus of Corpses (Robot Monster Records) USA.

ahh... look at my baby soft hand and chubby little fingers!

Book Of Creation!

Here's my double page spread from the Very First issue of a new French Language Publication 'The Book Of Creation' (Oracom Publishing). My grateful thanks goes out to Stephanie and colleagues for allowing me to be a part of this great new magazine... and I get to share the same space as LOU LOU & TUMMIE (amongst many more great creatives) so I am officially 'Chuffed to bits'!!!

I hope it brings me new opportunities to create more art!!

WAR OF WORDS... TINSEL

Meet Tina Tinsel!

The War Of Words has pretty much died a death of late, which is such a shame seeing as how prolific it made me as an illustrator. TINSEL was a word I chose over a month a go and although I did the sketch for it in plenty of time the lethargy caused by the Masters course meant that I couldn't face working the image up.... It's time for change though... I am the MASTER of my own destiny!