this northern boy

A recent commission for someone that likes castles, and tentacles!

Calamari Island

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UPDATE: Due to demand, and the amount of time I’m spending on each commission, I’m increasing my prices. My standard commissions, as described below will now be priced at £75.

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Since I started this blog just over two years ago, I’ve had lots of people ask about buying my drawings, or requesting commissions. I haven’t had anything available so far, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot.

So…

I am now accepting commissions.

I’m keeping things quite strict though, so this is how it will work if you’re interested in owning some original art.

If you would like to buy an original drawing, email me at rob [at] thisnorthernboy [dot] co [dot] uk , you can request one of the following:

A robot
A Spaceship
An imagined place

What you’ll receive will be a black and white pen drawing, on an A4 sheet of good quality, 200gsm cartridge paper. The artwork will be approximately A5 in size, centred on the paper so you can frame it easily if you’d like to.

You can also request for the illustration to be landscape or portrait in orientation.

Any other requests – type of landscape, style of robot etc. can be made, but there’s no guarantee I’ll be able to take this into account. I know this sounds a little strict, but I only want to accept commissions that I’ll enjoy drawing right now, and in return you get a lovely surprise when you open your finished illustration.

What will this cost?

I’m going to charge a flat rate of £75 including post and packaging for the UK. And a rate of £75 + post and packaging for the rest of the world.

When you email me to request a commission, if you can include the country you’d like it shipped to, I’ll work out the cost of postage and let you know. If you’re happy with the overall cost I’ll accept payment by PayPal.

When will you get your drawing?

I’ll aim to complete and post all illustrations within two weeks of receiving payment.

What might your commission look like?

Well, it could look a little like these…

So if you’d like to own some original art, and support me as I work at being an illustrator – drop me an email now.

Thank you,

Thisnorthernboy

still working in the illustrations for a children’s book about castles. It includes lots of cool stuff – Knights, swords, trebuchets – and a few skeletons and skulls.

This skull had to show damage from a sword or axe.

I’m taking a sabbatical from my day job as a graphic designer to concentrate on my drawing, and trying to turn drawing in to a career. I plan on working every day either drawing, pitching for work as an illustrator, or getting an online store up to feature prints of my work.

Today is day one, and it couldn’t have got off to a better start – I’ve signed my first contract to illustrate a children’s book. It’s an activity book about medieval castles, and I’ll be illustrating the cover and contents of the book – about 35 drawings in total. I can’t wait to get started.

Here’s another, slightly more involved and cluttered, stilted village or city – following on from my previous post.

The first image owed a lot to being in the Maldives right now, surrounded by ocean. There was also a pretty heavy influence from documentaries I’d seen on Southeast Asia – not something I’d researched, so probably just remembered very badly. This new illustration has more to do with a weird fantasy Europe from the 16th or 17th century I think. Perhaps the outskirts of a lesser Venice, or some Dutch aquatic suburbia.

UPDATE: I’ve added the coloured version of this illustration now.

Stilted City in Colour

Wherever these societies are supposed to be, in whatever century, I like them. I think next for this will be some colour, and then maybe a much larger illustration, showing a little more of this world.

Keep drawing Charlie Hebdo.

Je Suis Charlie