Wednesday, March 31, 2010


An update on the cartoon band illustration for Adam Moore. The keyboard player has been replaced with a male character so he is illustrated at the top and the final composition is underneath, a shot of all 4 in the group. The beige stuff surrounding the illustration is a rubber-based masking fluid as this is ready for painting (perhaps a technique blog coming up!)...although I am yet to get approval of this image...let that be a lesson to you kids of illustration; always get approval before you go ahead with any major work on an illustration!!

I think that's also a record for the amount of times the word 'illustration' has been mentioned in a blog.

Illustration.

Enjoy.

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Listening to:
Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010





So here is the latest on the cartoon band concept for
Adam Moore and The Greater Fiction. Adam runs Evesound Music where lots of fantastic noises are made on his Myspace page, but also check out his Youtube Channel to watch his style - amazing stuff!

Enjoy...!

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Listening to: Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier - SModcast 103: Amazing Grace
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Intended to do more than this, but it just kinda stopped at what you see here - I did this having been inspired by the new song by the Deftones as well as the events in their new video for the same song;
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Listening to: Deftones - Rocket Skates
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Sunday, March 07, 2010


This is probably my favourite drawing from yesterdays outing! I am playing around with word and image using stamps in my work and also drawing on unusual papers. I am doing the GCSE exam alongside my year 11 students which is fun and proving to be very valuable to them as well.


I like what has happened in this drawing as you can see Norwich Castle in the background being covered by the boards of a building site. The crane also looks ironically ominous in the composition, floating above the Castle. It makes me think that it's going to lift the traditional Castle out of an environment to make way for something possibly more modern looking in the way 'regeneration' tends to go!

Saturday, March 06, 2010


So I have been out for a wander around town and did a bit of drawing and research for a commission.

I have been hired by an old high school chum to create a fictional cartoon band for his new music project (like the Gorillaz, only my style - love Jamie Hewitt though!). Check out his tunes at Evesound Myspace. On display above is about half an hour of watching the world go by and spotting various looks, fashions and faces that seemed to fit to the music as it played in my ear via my ipod! Next will be the job of refining the looks of some of these to make a band.


Also while I was walking through town, there was an accident (I don't know what actually happened) and couldn't resist drawing an ambulance that was at the side of the street for a fair amount of time...I hope everybody involved is okay!! I have scanned this and added some colour. I have drawn more today but will reserve that for another post!

Enjoy!

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Listening to: Passion Pit - Let Your Love Grow Tall
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Here's a pic I created for some peeps at school for their friend's birthday.

It was fun to work on considering that the photo they gave me was the back of the girls head!!
Anyway, I did what I did from that and thinking that I actually knew the girl too! It turns out that I didn't. So what is actually here is a birthday card cartoon for a girl who isn't actually the girl in the picture!! Ahhh confusing and ridiculous, but the guys who had me do this said it looked like her so it's all good and she loved it so there...! enjoy!


Listening to:
Our Lady Peace - Sell My Soul
via FoxyTunes
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