Birdy, Birdie & Al

Back in January I designed a book cover for William Wharton's 'Birdy'
as part of a live brief set up by HarperCollins.

This is my final design.
This went through a lot of changes, way after the brief was over, and it's way better for it.

If you read the book, this cover shall hopefully make some sense.
It's somewhat literal, yet somewhat metaphorical.

The Work In Progress

This is an image I created as part of my proposal for the identity of the Work In Progress show we had a couple of months ago. It's meant to kinda symbolise how us illustrators were putting the core of our work together, the cores of our own worlds you see. But you know, we can have fun doing it too, hence the Tetris like pieces forming the cosmic egg.

In the end my friend Clara's proposal won in the end.

Clara's was way better.

But hey the image still ended up in the show, so it wasn't for nothing!

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So, my works now been handed in for my final assessment.

For those of you who don't know, that means I've now done all my work for this degree.

Yeah.

Technically everything.

In a little over a month I'll be completely done with education.

That puts me in a rather nervous disposition.

F***HEAD

Whilst working through the night I began to panic (again)

about how much work I have to do in so little time.

So I calmed myself by drawing Travis Touchdown.

11th Angel of Limbo

You... you can tell whats going on here right? 

Golden Coyotes

By the looks of it,
I might finally be about to do something with these guys.

You know what, I don't think I've ever told you their names.

El Niño Coyote/The Boy Coyote

La Hija del Oro/The Daughter of Gold

I currently have no idea how they're linked, time to get my story-writing cap on.

But I'll tell you this, they're not lovers.

CSM Illustration Work In Progress Show

Come one come all!

That's right, we're currently having a Illustration work in progress show!
This is taking place at the lovely Blackall Studios in Shoreditch.
Also, it finishes this Sunday! So those based in London come see it whilst you can!

For more information, how to get there, and to check out all the artists, check out the
Work In Progress Show Website here!

Just like last time, here's a sneak peek at what I've put in the show:

See you there!

Gemini I

An image from an upcoming self-publication, more on this some day.

With some luck that might be soon.

Oh, and just for the hell of it, here's a crappy phone image of the 

mammoth project I've been inking recently:

This project has really grown.

It's become 25+ pages people.

I'm scared too...

From Above: The Resurrection of Don Giovanni

Once again, an older project.
This time we had to create a piece of narrative based loosely off of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. My take on the original narrative transformed into a story of betrayal in which an Aquarian angel figures out it has the unique ability to kill people
and fellow immortals in a godless heaven.
Here are 3 images taken from the original 7 piece sequential narrative:

 'From Above IV-VI'
[Gouache on 250gsm Pure White Paper]

These have been done for a while. Remember?

I mean, cut back to half a year ago and you'll find me discussing painting, and how from time to time no matter how much I love the outcome, it can become a serious life-bane.

This is what lead me to that micro-discussion.

Notice how I've only put up 3/7 paintings? Well I think the rest need some substantial tweaking. If you ever see them, they'll hopefully be part of an upcoming publication.


My comrade Kenny, the good man behind YEAIKNOW brought it to my attention that my blog is mostly full of sketchbook work, and I should put more finished work up here. That's why this wild project has suddenly appeared after all this time.

The reason behind this is because believe it or not, I can be very merticulous with things. The more I grow up the more I find myself overanalysing things actually. I do a lot of projects, many that at the point of technically finishing, I don't see as 'finished', so I hold on to these projects, hiding them from the world, because my personal standards, according to others are too goddamn high.

Even though I've written this, aware of this fault of mine, I'm finding it very hard to change;
as I said earlier, this project needs tweaking,
but that's just according to me.