"Stop!"

... and continuing the rainy city theme from a few posts ago...

Portrait of the Artist

I was recently asked to submit some pieces for a magazine in new york, and I decided to create a few new ones just for it. One of which is a new self-portrait, since the old one was a bit vague on the likeness scale. This one, while being much more accurate, is almost too much so, since it portrays how much fatter my face gotten since the last portrait. I could have gone the whole hog and made my nose much more crooked too, maybe for another time...

Black & Whites

This is an experiment I have been working on, playing with two-tone shadows and light sources. I've always been interested in making 2D illustrations appear 3D, by whatever means. I think these results look as though they should belong in a graphic novel perhaps, so that's something for me to think about for the near future ...

Recession

Well this was something I wanted to do in response to the current economic climate, which is unusual for me but once I had the image in my head I had to turn it into an illustration. Underneath is the pencil version (which ironically got water spilled onto it, by me) although the original pen sketch in my sketchbook is even messier than that, unbelievably.

Selfy

School Play

This is something I've been pottering with for a wee while, not based on any school play I've ever been in, I hasten to add! But it would have been cool ...

still can't sleep

monster project