Drawing lots of weird little floating rocks at the moment. Not sure what I’m doing, or where I’m going, with them. But I’m having fun.
Drawn with Blackwing or Lamy pencils in a Moleskine sketchbook.
Here is a recent commission I worked on for a friend. He wanted an illustration of him and his family as astronauts – I was delighted to help out!
Once again I used my (patent pending) coin and tracing paper masking technique. There must be a better way…
Completed illustration
I decided to draw a few little spaceships. It got a bit out of hand. When I finished there was a whole tiny fleet of them. All tiny, all orange. 150 in total. I counted.
The finished fleet. 150 strong.
This is one of the most enjoyable illustrations I’ve done. Mark, who commissioned me, wanted a drawing of a lighthouse – with his daughter at the top – for a tattoo. The final illustration, now winging its way to Tewksbury (Massachusetts not Gloucestershire), will be framed for Mark’s daughter’s room. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this looks when Mark gets it inked.
Final illustration.
If you’d like to commission an illustration (or a tattoo design) from me, have a look at this blog post and get in touch.
A quick blog post to share a couple of recent ‘horrific’ illustrations.
The first, a commission for my good friend Leon (check out his band – The Day of Locusts), is a tattoo design based on the make-up of the Danish rocker King Diamond. I love drawing skulls, and this was a nice twist on the usual. Leon’s going to be having this inked on to his calf. Brave man.
King Diamond, tattoo design.
Detail.
The second illustration was just something I did for myself. I sat down to draw a creature, no more of a plan than that, and something tentacled and Lovecraftian emerged. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while you’ll know I like drawing tentacles – even though they’re bloody tricky – and I think these are some of my favourites yet.
This illustration is for sale. Message me if you’d be interested in buying it.
Creature from the Deep
Both of these illustrations were drawn with Palomino Blackwing Pencils, Copic Multiliners, and Rotring Tikky pens. I use a smooth, heavy cartridge paper from Daler Rowney.
I’ve been reasonably quiet on the blog recently, and I’m determined to post more regularly for the rest of the year.
As a bit of a catch-up post, here are some pictures – illustrations and photographs – from the last couple of months.
For a recent commission I was asked to drawn Jimi Hendrix as a Cosmonaut. So I did…
I drew this using Copic Multiliners, a Pentel Pocket Brush pen and a a big brush with some Sumi ink. The stars were splattered using an old toothbrush, white emulsion paint and some careful masking using tracing paper weighted down with coins.
I love drawing city scenes, which is why it’s always been one of the options I’ve offered for my illustration commissions.
Last year Rob Harris contacted me to commission a medieval/fantasy street scene, and he must have liked the result – because he came back for two more illustrations.
This was the first image…
I loved putting in as much detail as I could, making it seem like a place that had a story to it (even without the addition of any people). Rob then asked me to do another illustration, continuing the scene to the right…
It was fun to be able to tell more of the story of the town, adding in the celtic style cross, the strange section of bridge, the silhouette of a figure in a window. Finally, just a couple of weeks ago Rob asked me for a final (I think) illustration to continue the scene to the left of the original image…
This has been my favourite commission so far, I had a great time producing these for Rob and I’m delighted he liked the first one enough to commission the second and third.
Seen together I think the three illustrations look pretty good…
If you would like to commission a street scene, or anything else, from me – have a look at this blog post for more details.
Daredevil commission.
A couple of recent sketches, a little different to my usual stuff. A pencil sketch of H.P. Lovecraft – with added tentacle, and a pen drawing of my version of Frankenstein’s monster.
H.P. Lovecraft
Frankenstein’s monster
this northern boy 