Neighbours

This is the reaction I would have expected from my 19th century neighbours on seeing me move in next door!

Wills and Kate

Here's my take on the Royal Wedding which was published in the last issue of Foghorn:



Not much more I can say really....

Robert Pattinson Actor

This is a quick caricature of the actor Robert Pattinson (Twilight) while watching the box in the corner of the room.

College of Knowledge

A few years ago I did a couple of years on a part-time BA degree course in Children's Illustration at a local art school. If nothing else I think it helped my drawing and I'd have to say I really enjoyed it although it ceratinly wasn't everything it was cracked up to be!

Anyway, I came across some of the work I did for various projects and thought I'd show something of them here. One of the projects was to get hold of an old copy of a children's book and have a go at re-illustrating it. The book I chose was "My Dad's Got An Alligator" by Jeremy Strong. The first thing to do was a bit of character development for the alligator and here is what I came up with:


The alligator in question had just been helping himself to the soap hence the bubbles by the way...
These illustrations were to be in black and white only and here's what a page may have looked like:


Then the problem of the cover illustration reared it's ugly head and I did have great difficulty with this one and here is my first attempt:

This didn't work as such (not dynamic enough as I recall) and so I eventually came up with this:



I came up with an image for the dad in the story and coloured it up because I liked it so much:



Some of the lecturers unkindly claimed it reminded them of me (well, I suppose I did have a moustache and beard at the time!)

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd

I've just spent a great weekend at the Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival where I met up with some brilliant compadres from all over the place!
So it was difficult today to get myself back into work mode (at least with a modecum of enhusiasm anyway) and so I thought I'd draw a quick caricature of the man behind Pink Floyd, Roger Waters. I thought he had a great face to 'warm up' on. I suppose I should get on with some real work now.....

Wedding

I was working at a wedding over the weekend - the bride's parents had seen me working at another wedding they'd attended and so kept my details - lovely!
Anyway, I did three hours for them and I drew about 50 caricatures, mainly couples and so I thought I'd put a few photos up here for you to look at:



The bride and groom plus another couple of guests....



and more guests......



and a few more.....



and some more....

Anyway, the photos aren't brilliant because I forgot to use the flash but I'm sure you'll get the idea!

Scientific journal

I have a regular slot in a monthly medical biochemistry newsletter where they ask me to illustrate some scientific article or other being published that month. This month it was an article about phlebotomy (the taking of blood samples to you and me) and the various interesting points that had been concluded from a recent study. The two main poinst that grabbed my attention were that some hopsital patients are bled so often that they become anaemic i.e. have a severe lack of blood and the second was that phlebotomists (those peolpe who take the blood samples) often take a spare sample 'just in case' and so here are the cartoons I drew for them:


and here is the second regarding the taking of spare samples: