The Sleepless Phoenix

I received my copy of The Sleepless Phoenix: Survival Stories the other day, and was very impressed indeed. With a collection of comic book artists coming together to create work on the theme of Survival Stories, it has a various styles as you would imagine, which gives it a very unique feel.

I was asked to contribute an image that would appear in the final section of the book, and although I'm more of a Children's Illustrator than a Comic Book Artist, hopefully it doesn't look too out of place.

So, here are some photos of it, and this is the blog to follow the progress of this book and the next installment that seems to be in the works - www.thesleeplessphoenix.blogspot.com

Farewell Weekend Random Selector!

Hi all. If anyone had popped on here to see the latest installment of my Weekend Random Selector, then I'm afraid you will be disappointed. I have decided to give it a break for the foreseeable future so I can concentrate fully on other projects I have on the go!

I was using it to get me blogging on a more regular basis, which served it purpose. But fear not, I will still be uploading various images that I'm working on, so come back regularly to see what's going on. :-D

Bear Hug

I noticed recently that a lot of my work has started to become less 'powerful' than what I used to do...mostly with the outlines and colours. Not necessarily a bad thing, just slightly different to how I prefer to work. So I decided to do this image with thicker outlines and a stronger, but limited, colour palette and see what the outcome would look like.

Hopefully it looks ok - I like that it stands out and can catch someone's eye! ;-)

So, this is a Big, Squeezy Bear Hug for whoever wants or needs one.

Until next time...

Weekend Random Selector

Hope everyone has had a great week and an enjoyable weekend. The words for this weeks Weekend Random Selector are:-

Dinosaur + Astronaut + Sandwich = Random Selection

I hope to be working on some new character designs this week as well as some other ideas I have been thinking about, so if any turn out successful then I will pop some stuff on here then!

Bye for now :-D

Weekend Random Selector

Hi, hope everyone is having a good weekend. This weeks Weekend Random Selector is:-

Bee + Umbrella + Bowler Hat = Random Selection

Thought I would mix photo and illustration again for this weeks image, hope you like!

Right... super sleepy, so I'm outta here!!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Fat Chick

Hi all....just a random image upload as a friend was getting scared of the clown one!

That's it really, so until the weekend - bye bye!!

Weekend Random Selector - Halloween Special

Hi all. As it's Halloween this weekend it seemed only fitting to make this weekends Random Selector a Halloween themed one. I enjoyed working on this one and quite happy with how it turned out.

Zombie + Clown + Space Hopper = Random Selection!

That's all for this week and looking forward to a bit of Halloween fun this weekend myself. Hope you all have a Ghoulishly Great weekend too!!

The Party Is Here!!

I was asked to do a design for a birthday invitation and this is what I have come up with. I started working on this yesterday afternoon and did final little touches today, hope it looks ok? I have left out the name, age and venue of this persons birthday event.

That's it for now, but will upload my Halloween themed piece on Friday. :-)

Weekend Random Selector

This week when I was working on my Weekend Random Selector, I decided to mix it up and add a Halloween twist to it. Now, as you can tell from the image above, this isn't it!! As Halloween isn't until next weekend, that left me one week in advance, but also one image short for this week!

So this weeks one was a tad last minute to be honest!

Queen + Pants + Skates = Random Selection

The good news is that I'm really happy with how next weeks Halloween themed Random Selector has turned out - so make sure you pop over for a little peek then :-)

Thanks for looking and enjoy your week ahead!

Bye for now.

*Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental

Weekend Random Selector

Hi, hope you have all had a nice weekend. This is my first official Weekend Random Selector - hope you like.

Parrot + Fireman + High Heels = Random Selection

I will be working on more stuff in the next couple of days, so will pop more work on here soon.

Thats all for now!

Midweek Random Selector

Hi everyone! I've been finding myself drawing lots of crocs and chicks recently as you can see by the images below, and also a project on working on at the moment too. So to stop myself going too stir-crazy with them, I will be doing some random images that make no sense at all.

I haven't done images like this for a while since I stopped taking part in Illustration Friday (which I still think is a good idea), but I have devised my own way of generating a topic to draw from. Drum roll please..... It will be my Weekend Random Selector!!

I know what you're thinking...but no, I haven't built myself a big machine like the Lottery use to spit out topics for me!! Similar, but maybe a tad less technical. It will be picking 3 bits of paper, each with a word on and then using that as a starting point.

So here we are, the first image...a warm up I would say for the Weekend Random Selector.

Shark + Rocker +Toilet = Random Selection- hope you like.

Will have the official one up this weekend.

Bye for now. :-)

Hot Chick!

Hello again Cactus fans... hope you are all keeping well. Just thought i'd post this random image for your amusement. I haven't mixed illustration and photography for quite a while now, but have always enjoyed the process when doing it, so will most likely be doing plenty more of this in the near future. Hopefully you like the end result?

Think that's about it for the time being - will have a new image on here soon!

Bye for now :-)

Baby Croc

Hello all. Since my last crocodile themed image I did, I have been sorting out all my sketchbooks and came across another crocodile one I've been meaning to work on for a while, so thought i'd follow on from Survival Stories with this one!

I've gone for a slightly different look with this one, hopefully looks ok... comments always welcome.

Still got another half of the day remaining, so back to the drawing board with me!

Survival Stories

Hello all, finally managed time to blog again - what a busy summer! Just a quick update here, and more images to follow soon.

I have produced the above illustration for a new comic anthology, called Survival Stories, and is being produced to raise money for the Comic Book Alliance—an organization that fights for the rights of comic creators everywhere.

The book is 192 pages long, black and white, and features all-new content. Creators include Martin Conaghan (Burke & Hare), Ben Bates (Sonic the Hedgehog), Jim Boswell (KiCk!), Peter Forbes (Oz: Fall of the Scarecrow King), and more. It will be released in October, 2010. www.kickstarter.com/projects/910305588/the-sleepless-phoenix-comics-anthology

The original image is in colour, but as the book will be printed in black and white, the 2nd image is how it will look when printed. You will be able to pick up the book online (to order now, follow the link above) and also at various conventions, so keep your eyes peeled!

Thats enough for now, more soon :-)

Balloon Bear

Right....I'm techically late with this blog post (according to my half-year resolution of blogging every week), but what's a few days between friends!! And I have also been a bit traumatised with the way the England team played during their short Wold Cup campaign - so I think I deserve to be let off this once!

This one I took from a random sketch I had done recently - which wasn't originally a bear, but turned that way when doing the final image. May re-do at some point with 'proper' bear hands, will see how I feel.

Anyway, better pop off, but hope to have more work on here soon - including more sneak peek images too. Bye for now!

Sneak Peek 3

Hi, here is another quick sneak peek at something i'm working on. Hopefully will be able to reveal more as things progress. I'm having a nice weekend off, but will post more next week....enjoy the sunshine!!

ENGLAND!!!

Just a quick post to mark the start of the Fifa World Cup 2010! Im hoping for a brilliant 4 weeks of football, and fingers crossed England go far - starting with USA tomorrow...can we dream that they will be lifting the trophy high in the sky once it's all said and done?

Hope you all enjoy some great games too! :-)

New Character

This is a new character i've been working on and plan to use in a series of images. It's still in the early stage of ideas and development, but plan to have more images up soon!

Have a nice weekend ♥

The Beat Royale

I got commissioned to produce a cd cover for the band The Beat Royale for their single Heartbreaker featuring Kezi Silverstone on vocals, which will be released this summer.

I did a few different designs for them and they have chosen one of the graphic style images for the cd cover - and i will upload a photo of the final thing once it's all been finally printed etc.

In the meantime, here is one of the other images i did (my personal fave), which i thought would give the cd a slightly different look from the norm... let me know what you think.

Thats all for now :-)

Sneak Peek 2!

The first upload to my new half-year resolution is a sneak peek at one of the images to a project i'm working on at the mo. Lots more to be completed before i can start showing the full images, so will keep uploading them in this form as things progresses.

Sneak peek 3 on its way. Bye for now!