The Big Man!

I have wanted to try and get some editorial work for a while now and thought that there might be a good chance to get something in the sport section of the Gruniad on Saturdays (due to it's awkward format and revolving illustrators)...

This image is based on an article about the English football fan's obsession with 'The Big Man' and portrays Andy Carroll as some thrusting, centaur-like beast!!!

Editorial stuff...

...a 'portfolio image' based on a Charlie Brooker article from August 2006 (reprinted in the Guardian on 21st August 2010):

As the World floats ever closer to a third World War, TV shows like Big Brother are essentially little more than brightly coloured, lightbulb-studded arrows, pointing away from the problem.

Happy New Year! Where did that last one go...?

Greetings friend!

Well, here we are in the year of our Lord 2011 - which to be honest sounds a bit too bloody Science Fiction for my tastes (BTW where oh where do we get them all in one white LYCRA suits they said we'd all be wearing? Although I have seen something similar in Primark that might do the job but I'm just not sure if it's me...)

So, 2010 went by in a bit of a whirl what with a baby appearing and all that but I have done the odd 'ARTY ' thing - including one paid job which is nice! Of course, that was a bit of a do and I aim to explain why at some point...

Here is a piece of work completed at some point during the Summer and is the latest in a long line of 'Portfolio pieces' that never seem to get shown to anyone...

I have been planning to do a series of paintings based on a section of Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita for quite a while but I decided to try to make a start on some in pencil (with some photoshopped collage-y stuff)...

Here is an idea for a cover:

While here is one based on the section when all the corpses start to pour out of Hell's fireplace and get done up to meet old Mags at the top of the staircase:

...it really is a good book so give it a go if you get a chance!

BP portrait contd...

...and here it is now - I've got a week off to work on it (but am currently procrastinating by typing this!?)...It needs to be finished for the hand-in date - around the end of March!!! So...

BP portrait...

...after saying to myself for a few years that I should put something into the Portrait Gallery's BP award, I've made a start - and paid my money! - on a self-portrait-sorta-fing...here's some images of it in progress...

princes!

...and this is one hand-tinkered with on photoshop - never underestimate the violent subtext of the clown with a saxophone...

prince!

Hello! Here are a couple of linocuts I've done during a print workshop I'm doing on a Friday...this one being based on an erotic french postcard - not so keen on waterbased inks!

New webpage alert!

Hello! I have finally got around to changing my hopelessly out-dated website - even though for now it is just a holding page (but it should give me the motivation to actually sort it for next year!)...The image here is a work in progress of the homepage - showing some wacky dialogue between myself and the menagerie around the chair...I hoped that the drawing would be a bit more related to the work I've been doing recently...if you've come here after following the link from my site please feel free to peruse the blog and it's archive...

image of a geezer slouching at a desk...

This is an image I did in the summer for my friends at The Healthy Working Partnership who are working on developing a web-based tool based on healthy working (funnily enough)...They came to me for a series of drawings based around the ergonomics and set-up of a workspace...*this was rejected due to the bloke's posture being rubbish! Haha! But the style got the thumbs up...

Propstore 2009...

Here is a work in progress of my upcoming christmas card design for my friends at the Propstore of London - thought a cheesy gag was more in order for this years effort...*incidentally the ripped-off Santa Claus is apparently rights free? Let's hope so eh?

Tribute to Marc Ellerby!

...just thought I'd upload this wee strip that I did in tribute to Marc Ellerby's 200th 'Ellerbism' - a strip based entirely around himself...I decided to do it about myself rather than about him and his girlfriend - unlike virtually everyone else who posted!!! Am so glad he decided against putting Mr Sloane's effort on...

...and finally here's a little triptych with more clowns and lovers - maybe I'll get some done as prints? Hmm...

...and so...

Here's a work in progress of a series of paintings on very cheap canvases - I like them but I don't know what they're about...sexual frustration,loss of identity and dislocation I guess?

...I then decided to do a series of paintings based on still images captured from anonymous couple's webcams...I did a couple then ran out of watercolour boards!!! Can you still get them?

Anyway...I s'pose I'm thinking of the fellas like Degas, Sickert and Lautrec...the dirty old keyhole snoopers...

NEW WORK!

I have been a bit dejected of late and am disgusted at my lack of artistic updates!!! I have been keeping a bit busy, however, and this was the start of a series of weird things with clowns...

This one is a sketch based on a couple of old life drawings that have been knocking about for a few years - I thought it might make a nice print? I quite like the idea of nude clowns...I don't know why...?

FHM-age

...plus my X-Rated job for FHM magazine continues to keep me in Monster Munch - this one's from the latest issue - I think it's called the butterfly? Although I could be wrong...I gave her a nice Winehouse style-y beehive...

Oaklands college poster...

...here's one of a proposed series of posters for the Additional Learning Support department of Oaklands college bigging up dyslexia...I also did the logo!!! Oh yes...

Healthy Working Partnership contd...

...here's some sketches for the 'Healthy Working' folk...These were worked up into 4 ft free standing figures used to provide a barrier for the stand...

...and here is a design for a promotional postcard - sheets of cothes were given away alongside this and a female version...like them things you used to get in the 70s!

going all corporate...

Hello! I have been busy of late doing a bit of 'identity' work...Here was the holding page for a start-up company specialising in occupational health! Just an excuse to play with fuzzy-felt really...

...as well as doing all their stationary, I also designed the stand for a trade exhibition (which won them the accolade of 'best small stand in show'!!!)...

dead painters

This is something I've been working on for the last few days - hopefully I'll be using them on a poster for Oaklands college...or maybe just get some beer mats printed and finally open that shop section on me website??? Christ knows....