I’d forgotten how much I like life drawing – until I got the chance to have a go at the artists’ hangout – a wonderful group of local artists (of all disciplines). I coloured this one in later in photoshop – but on the night I was stripped of electronic assistance and performed the sketching with […]

Autumn rattles on…  

I’ve recently had the joy of working on a book cover about a talk show hosting guinea pig called Gerry. I’ll post the finished artwork, details about the book and author, along with a link to amazon once it’s finished. In the meantime, here’s some sketches and character progressions…

Gosh. Isn’t windy? I mean it’s really very turbulent outside today. I walked up Weets Hill this morning and the power of the wind took my breath away, in a literal way… and gave me a Wallace and Gromit type smile. It’s inspired me to colour in this sketch, as a sort of here comes […]

The artist at work. A quick sketch worked up in a limited palette in illustrator.    

He loves his bone.

Sometimes the only light in the room is the ghostly glow of apple’s iPad…

I’m not a great sketchbook user. I don’t find myself driven to constantly fill pages, and I’m not great at architecture, so hey-ho, here’s my total output from two days in Liverpool. One of these sketches was done in the hallowed halls of the wonderful Walker gallery.

Sometimes a glass of wine is all we need to make us smile. Sometimes it’s just the glass that is smiling.

A quick sketch of Owen the dog leading his mistress to the park on a windy day.

Isobel, studying late at night.

Seems like ages since my last post. I’ve plenty of exciting projects on at the moment but they’re all in the early stages of development. In the meantime here’s a quick sketch.