Wednesday 22 December 2010

Personal sketchbook






Here are some bits from my personal sketchbook over the last term.

Three kings


An etching for christmas. Follow the light my friends.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS


Friday 10 December 2010

Life drawing

A charcoal drawing from this term.

Friday 26 November 2010

Friday 19 November 2010

Weatherman zine


Weatherman is about a weatherman. It is a little 24 page zine I made last weekend. It will be on sale for the princely sum of one pound at Handmade and Bound on Sunday, at St. Aloysius Social Club, Euston. Come!

Thursday 18 November 2010

Not an Icon


Animation made in a day, in response to the project brief 'woman'. Words from Germaine Greer, body of a pin up tattoo, my arm.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Sung mass at St. Luke's



The morning after the evangelists, I went to sung mass at St Luke's, a red brick church round the corner from my house. Quite an experience. I am planning to return and do colour paintings - these inky line ones are my starting point.

Reportage evangelism


I have started a reportage project on church going. What does it mean to go to church in this day and age? I hope to explore the different ways in which one faith is expressed. The hidden traditions and rituals that occur so close to us, yet outsiders rarely see. These drawings are from my first trip to a concert held by a local branch of the evangelist Potter's House church.


Thursday 11 November 2010

Sneaking into the Guardian

My two faced placard for the student march. The other side was a grimace that said 'education is a privilege'. An unorthodox way of getting illustration in the Guardian.

Monday 25 October 2010

Piccadilly Circus





On Friday I took a roll of paper to Piccadilly Circus and tried to draw all the way round: sadly I only got halfway.

Thursday 21 October 2010

Bacteria series




This is a set of three etchings I did in March. Each one is a different microscopic image of bacteria - cholera, plague, and pneumonia - made up of bodies. Bacteria are far, far older than humans in evolutionary terms. We're relative babies. These etchings show the human species tangled up with illnesses from our short history.

For bigger versions, please go to my flickr


Wednesday 20 October 2010

Borough Market drawing






Drawing along the way from Waterloo to Borough Market, then a few hours in Borough.

Wednesday 13 October 2010

Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Competition



Here is my entry for the Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story prize. It's very small here, please go to my flickr to see a bigger version:

Monday 11 October 2010

Tate location drawing





Location drawings from the Tate Modern of people interacting with art. I really enjoyed observing them.

Monday 4 October 2010

Loch


A birthday drawing for my mum, of the loch we stayed at on holiday. Happy birthday Mum.

Saturday 25 September 2010

Happy Birthday James


Happy 18th birthday to my brother James, who got a banjo, a china blackbird for making pies, and a new woodcarving chisel. Set for life.

Monday 20 September 2010

Nothing to be scared of

I walk past a nursery school on my way to work.

Saturday 18 September 2010

light relief


Drawings for a book I planned earlier in the summer, which has fallen by the wayside lately.

graphic novel sketchbook

Time is really running out on this project! Still working things out in my sketchbook though.

Friday 10 September 2010

Newfoundland, again



Drawing of Newfoundland, part of summer sketchbook for a children's book.

Sunday 29 August 2010

Draft

A very rough frame from the draft of my graphic short story I am currently working on. It's based on the stories told to me by an East End sailor.

Monday 16 August 2010

Birds of prey





Today I went to the Hawk Conservancy Centre near Andover. What an amazing place! There are vultures that fly so close over your head that you have to duck several times, black kites circling above you and catching food catapulted to them, and bald eagles swooping from the horizon back to their handlers just when they step into place. You get to hold a barn owl. Up close, barn owls look like bread rolls with poppy seeds on. And briefly, you get to hold food out for a harris hawk, which lands on your glove to eat. And also they did a duck race.
I can't imagine a better day out!