Frank's Escape!

Here's another piece I've been working on to keep me busy! I like to call this on Frank's Escape, it's like a take on the Frankenstein monster, but my weird creature has taken Frank's hand and is built of many other oddments! I'm trying to build up my photoshop skills still! Enjoy!

Space Cadet

Well I'm really happy with myself today! After 2 weeks of lounging around reading having just finished uni for summer I've finally picked up my pen and paper again! I'm just aiming to have fun with drawing over summer and hopefully produce some new cool illustrations. Here's my first one, I like to call it Space Cadet. The image links in with a book i've just read called 'Dreamcatcher' by Steven King and there is a boy in it that never really grows up but he has special powers that eventually help defeat the aliens that land on earth! Hope you like it!

Coloured pages from my book

These pieces are all done in watercolour and ink apart from the writing which I did on the computer in Century Gothic typeface.

My First Children's Book!

Front cover

Back Cover

This is my finished children's book, I'm so happy with it it took so long to do and neaten and adjust and re-adjust! It's only a dummy book to send into the Macmillan Children's Book competition but everything had to be done and because I choose the hard route of having Bert eat lots of items from each letter of the alphabet it was very fiddly drawing them all together!

Any ways I hope you all like it! It's not bad for a first attempt, don't know whether I'd ever want to try doing a children's book again though!

Psychoville

I am soooo excited! Psychoville starts again on BBC 2 next Thursday, if you haven't seen the first series you should definitely get hold of them and watch them! If you liked the league of gentleman you will absolutely love this. Heres a few images from the new series and the old series.

Poster for the second series just above. (Even the poster is exciting!)

The majority of the cast at the end of the second series.

The Crabtree Twins from the first series.

Maureen and David who are mother and son but they have a very strange relationship and also like going around murdering people! They are in the first series and will be in the second series too. David even has a site on his morbid fascination with serial killers. http://www.bestmurders.co.uk/

Joy who has a doll that she thinks is a real baby! She is crazy and Dawn French plays the part very well! Joy even has her own website on child care. http://www.freddyfruitcake.co.uk/site.html

Mr Lomax is an old man who has an obsession over collecting cuddly toys, to point that he gave his eyes to the Crabtree twins for a cuddly toy. He calls the toys his 'commodities' and he has a website too http://www.lomaxcommodities.co.uk/

My Jolly and My Jelly are arch enemies because Mr Jolly who is the nicer and cleaner looking clown is the reason why Mr Jelly lost his hand and can't get any work. Both of them are always mixed up at birthday parties. My Jelly has his own website for his children's parties http://www.jellyparties.co.uk/ And Mr Jolly also has a website http://www.jollyparties.co.uk/

And these are some sketches by David Sheersmith creating the characters. I thought I'd add these in because its amazing to look at these and then see the characters, from small drawings fantastic and surreal people have been created!

Anyhow thought I would share this because with you all because it's just one of the best dark comedy series i have ever seen! The main website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/psychoville/.

Glastonbury!

I decided to enter into the Glastonbury t shirt design competition to go towards my projects this term. I went for something a little different to my usual style something brighter and more fun! I've been looking a lot at the 60's groovy style from posters to art! Especially Heinz Eldermann who was one of the main artists for the Beatles and did the artwork for the yellow submarine. His work is so bright and bold and although it looks simple to do, after working with all the colours I did on this piece it really isn't as simple as it seems! I hope the judges like this fun and funky Glastonbury stage bursting with patterns and wearing very groovy wellys!

Inspirational illustrator of the day!

David Hughes! Love this guys work and if you haven't seen his work before and you are into pen and ink like myself you should definitely check it out! This is his website : http://www.davidhughesillustration.co.uk/