Your creative ticket
Your creative ticket
My dummy book of the classic fairy tale, created for Penguin’s 2018 “Draw Now” WriteNow programme. The brief This year’s Penguin WriteNow requirement was to create new illustrations for a potential new edition publication of a picture book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The existing text was provided and the brief was the standard dummy book …
Dummy picture book for author-illustrator agent representation I have prepared a full dummy PDF of the 32-page picture book ‘Looking For My Eye’ by Jeff West. It contains black-and-white rough layouts of all interior pages and spreads, plus front and rear covers. Full-colour artwork of the front cover and pp 22-23 spread is also included. …
Dummy book PDF is ready for an author-illustrator picture book agent. Contact Jeff West to look inside!
Baby driver My road to digital artist has been, in some ways, the scenic route. As a very small child, I would point and shout the names of passing cars and my love of the automobile has continued to this day. Drawing was also a talent I displayed and one of my favourite subjects to …
Bedtime reading to induce the strangest dreams – from any angle Return from The Far Side I was delighted to read that Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side … comic? was considering a return to the drawing board, right here in 2020. Or rather, a return to the digital tablet. I blundered into this …
Childhood memory Drawing animals is one of my strongest early childhood memories and when I started the character design for Yggy, I recalled a certain image. Fortunately, I still had the original reference; “The Ladybird Book of African Mammals“. Back to school One session in my refresher course “Drawing Skills” at what is now Greater …
Project brief Wall art for children’s rooms. Commissioned by Wallpix Deliverables Artwork for print in a range of physical sizes, up to really quite large. Creative process One of several ideas for a range of artwork, the theme being Water Creatures. With some emphasis on a boy’s room, this great white shark character started with …
Project brief Unicorn-themed wall art for children’s rooms. Deliverables Artwork for print in a range of physical sizes, up to really quite large. Creative process This commission was part of an ongoing stream of artwork for Wallpix. The open-ended nature of the initial brief (unicorns) is resulting in many projects under this umbrella, or rather …
An end-of-year montage of school work. I spent the last 18 months working on something to hang on the wall in the FayJay foyer. The challenge of delivering timely digital artworks on a variety of subjects, with a variety of tools – sometimes figuratively with one arm tied behind my back, was fun. I will share some of these pieces in isolation, but for now here is a thumbnail kaleidoscope of my London Art College Digital Illustration assignments.
On a recent visit to the attic (looking for some particular 80s synthpop vinyl records) I stumbled upon a cardboard box full of one of my childhood’s greatest drawing inspirations-Snoopy. Charles M Schulz’s simple, elegant flowing line which defined the brilliant beagle, is perhaps the strongest blueprint and starting point for my own character designs. …
