CURRENTLY WORKING ON . . .

Design and vector illustration for children

I’m designing and illustrating some first experiences books devised by some very clever, cool ladies! Can’t really show you anything yet, here are some incidental little characters. Such a lovely project, really enjoying it!

 

Cover design and vector illustration

Some early illustration ideas that I’m not actually using for book cover for the ever lovely Matt Johnson at S&S, can you guess which decade it focuses on?!

 

Children’s book illustration

Early stages of a character for a non fiction book, he’s going to look completely different to this!

 

Cover design and vector illustration

A set of print and digital book covers for Simon and Schuster.

 

Finished but not yet published . . .

Children’s book design and vector illustration

A non fiction book I designed and illustrated for Carlton Books, loved working on this, it’s older and MUCH longer than any other kids books I’ve done! Here’s a little snippet of illustration, including one of the main characters.

 

RECENT WORK

Illustration – pencil drawing

T shirt illustration for a Kate Miller-Heidke tour, commissioned by the ridiculously talented Sharon Chai http://www.eyeflyhigh.com/ . This is a drawing of a photo she art directed for the album cover. I scanned the pencil drawing and separated it into 2 colours for screen printing.

 

Illustration – mono print

Illustration for a children’s theatre production: ‘Blown Away’. And some other suggestions I provided for colour etc.

This was lots of fun, I used one of our little side tables as a plate, rollered ink onto it, laid some paper over the top and did some line drawings.

Initial prints

Early ideas (too young)

 

Typography

Collected letterpress letters I was going to use for a leaflet design for Macmillan but I didn’t in the end!

 

Digital illustration

Yay – finialist! Last minute entry to the Stylist cover design competition (seriously last minute – started the night before and finished in my lunch break!)

I tried out a new style – pen and ink drawing scanned and tweaked and then coloured in digitally.

 

Digital illustration

Bear character ideas

 

Typography

Some typefaces I made for a recent freelance project, just put together quickly through http://www.yourfonts.com/  No numbers, whoops!

 

Cover design

Case designs for Hemmingway audio books.

Some of the covers all printed and finished

 

Typography

My version of Futura – ‘Meltura’!

 

Skinny typeface – ‘Jethro’

 

Chunky typeface – ‘Arlo’

 

Vector illustration

Commissioned by Beetroot for Southside trains magazine

 

Illustration – pen and ink

Illustration commissioned by Stylorouge for ‘Words for you’ , a CD of poetry read by famous voices

 

Digital illustration and model making

A panorama to be used on the goatland website. And below is a model I made which wasn’t really suitable but was good fun!

 

Illustration – pencil drawing

Commissioned by Stylorouge

 

Vector illustration

Illustration for a leaflet asking young people to get urine tested for Chlamydia with the added incentive of possibly winning an iPhone. Don’t know why I did such strange looking noses . . .

 

Digital illustration

Illustrations for the Hillingdon annual report, working with the talented Jimmy Young http://www.jimmyyoungdesign.com/

 

Pen and ink drawing

Commissioned by Sharon Chai at Stylorouge, my drawings were printed onto special colour changing paper for a special limited edition of the album ‘As day follows night’