Bluebells on a Blue Sunday

T2

 

I'm delighted to announce that i'm now represented by the wonderful T2 children's illustrators for my Children's orientated doodles. www.tugeau2.com

Mean Girls At The Beach

 

I dreamt the other night after working on this image that I was being forced to jump into big pools of crabs. I think i'm still deeply traumatised from the time I was about 8 and I fell into the biggest rockpool going on Rhosneigr beach ... right after we'd all just tipped our buckets full of crabs back in there. The worst!

A Little Bit of Manley

I'm In The Warm

Something for my mum for Mother's day, she sacrificed 10 years of Sunday mornings for us little swines.

Editorial Illustrations, Revisited.

 

 

 I've been having a bit of an on-going colour overhaul across my portfolio this year. Things were looking a bit drab.

A Spruced Up Oldie

 

I recoloured this image recently for my portfolio, I originally had to make it two colour for the wonderful Curious Stories for Curious Minds project here. But thought it could do with a bit of a colour-overhaul.

Belated Valentine's Wishes

 

A little something I drew last week for the curly haired wonder in my life. God Valentine's Day is a bit weird.

A Floral Pitch

Last month I had the nice task of pitching for some work for the Chelsea Flower Show. Flowers are really therapeutic to draw, I should draw them more often!

Swindon : A Building for Once

Nominate Someone Happy

A new illustration for ANORAK's workshop at the new H&M store opening in Aylesbury next weekend. A bit brighter than usual... 

Frankie Magazine : Weight For The Anchor

My Rocky Votolato inspired illustration 'Weight For The Anchor To Keep Your Ship Here' is folded up and tucked away in the latest issue of dreamy Australian magazine Frankie. It's in the shape of a large pull-out poster with a calendar printed onto the back... and I'm made up with it, it's printed so nicely, I love Frankie Magazine!!

Also, to my lovely surprise.. one of my favourite photographers Annie Collinge is also in there with her amazing mermaid project. Go take a look : http://www.collinge.com/

Some more Line-less People

Something from my day job....

Taken from a painting I made recently for a scheme the architecture studio I work for has rustled up. It's quite freeing to draw without accurate lines.

Thank Yous

A little doodle of a fairly generic bunch of flowers I did on my lunch break the other day. These will be plopping onto the door mats of my relatives soon....

Stealth Christmas Commission

This was a little private commission I got just before Christmas. It was a wide open brief for a portrait of the lovely fashion designer www.emmamanley.com and her two year old niece, Emily who is completely obsessed with her. I've drawn Emma before (over here) so it was lovely to do it again in  slightly more bonkers surroundings. 

I hope it made her laugh on Christmas day.

Letters to Santa

Some little postcard / letter box doodles for ANORAK's Letters to Santa workshop that happened at the new store in Richmond's opening day yesterday. Big thanks to the ever fabbo Cathy from ANORAK for a wonderful year of working together. One of the best eggs.

As a side note, santa is quite hard to draw, like hands and horses. 

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Spot Illustrations

A bunch of three colour spot illustrations relating to me and the jobs I do or have done. I have selectively left out a bunch of the shittier jobs I've done in my time, although may extend the series if only to draw the time I worked as a cleaner in a Jewish ladies home, who had me polishing religious trinkets with what turned out to be her dead husbands old Y-fronts.

 

 

Colouring Outside Your Guidelines

 

Some doodles without outlines.

A Winter White Christmas Special



Lucky old me got another wonderful opportunity to work with Cathy and her dreamy magazine ANORAK with this pull out colouring - in sheet for H&M's winter wardrobe. A slightly different spin on the advertorials I've done this year and working with such little colour scared the crap out of me at first. But i'm proud to announce that the Christmas issue is OUT NOW!!! So sharpen your crayolas and get to work....

 

Point Break

I drew this picture for a present for a big Point Break fan a while back. It's so gross I can barely look at it... but it kind of makes me chuckle at the same time.

God It's Cold

Summer Sillies

Since summer's well and truly over, I thought I'd post up a few photos from my travels this year. 

New York, New York : June. Spent two weeks out in my favourite city earlier this summer. It was wonderful, that city kills me. Lots of amazing food, good friends and a new snazzy Myles Karr doodle on my ribs.

Bontddu, Wales : July. I took my bike and rode to the camp site from the Station, I think I saw about 3 cars during the entire 45 minute journey... not a double decker bus in sight. 

Valencia, Spain : September. There's a lot to be said for spending your days holding hands, swimming in the sea and  riding your bike for hours in the beautiful sunshine.

Bath, Somerset : September. A surprise trip to Bath which involved running round a woods in army gear, fancy pants dinner at the Royal Crescent, a peaceful journey in a hot air balloon, a not so peaceful landing in a farmer's field somewhere and finally a party at the Roman Baths. It blew my mind. 

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Patterns Old and New

Some patterns I have been playing around with or have made to sit in the back of larger illustrations.

I'd love to make wallpaper one of these days.

Manley

http://vimeo.com/50155809

A sneaky peak of the SS '13 collection here in this dreamy new video by the talented Manley. I love Manley's designs for their delicate and playful nature.. all of the tiny quirks and details make them kind of mysterious.. Just like Manley herself.

Silent Sleep

Ahhh, I haven't made a gig poster in ages, so I had really good fun with this one. I made it whilst I was away in Valencia last week and decided to draw it all in black pen and photoshop to save me dragging all of my paint pots out with me.

I saw lots of jellyfish on a beach in Cullera last week, they're 50% cute and 50% creepy. I prodded one with my shoe.

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ANORAK's Back To School!

I had another lovely opportunity to draw the H&M advertorial for ANORAK magazine's Autumn edition. The theme for this issue is CIRCUS and has a bunch of absolutely wonderful illustrators and writers involved as always. The theme for this illustration was Back to School... it was fun to make a picture with lots of people in it!


I also managed to sneak in a little drawing of a bug that my best 5 year old pal Audrey made when she was two which I think is my favourite part. Is that plagiarism? I don't think she'll mind too much....