Ripley's believe it or not 3rd piece

'The first artificial limb - An iron hand ordered by King Robert the Bruce of Scotland for a knight named De Clephanes more than 650 years ago - each finger could be moved by pressing a button.'


Last piece for my Ripley series.

Ripley's believe it or not!

 'Frenchwomen in the 17th Century created elaborate hairdos with scenes from literature, models of the city of Paris, windmills and waterfalls.'

'Edward Bovington of Burnham England, had three tongues.'



For my latest editorial work I decided to illustrate some facts from the 'Ripley's believe it' or not book. I'm always interested in the unusual and bizarre and this book is rich with great tales of extraordinary people and things so it was good fun looking through the book and deciding which quotes to illustrate, I still have one more I want to do so keep checking back!

Platform Expos 2012

Over the 17th and 18th me and a group of illustrators from Hull did live painting at Platform Expos an event that showcases digital gaming and the entertainment industry. For my characters I played around with creating a monster robot creature hybrid! The days where long but fun and now I have two great character designs I intend to use and develop for another project.... :)

Also you can see our painted wall coming together in a time lapse video courtesy of photographer Thomas Arran (you can see more of his work at- http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasarran) 

Time Lapseeeeeee - http://vimeo.com/38974543

Creature Stamps!

I realise I haven't blogged since Christmas time more or less! Time for some new work! I've just finished a set of stamps I've been working on for the past week, I'm pretty happy with the end result and all the colours go really well together!

UN Declaration of Human Rights Illustrations

The UN Declaration of Human Rights is something I've always known of but never read until this project. Initially I thought it would be a hard project to create images for but once I got my head around it and found things I could relate into the images it was quite fun! All the UN quotes are incorporated into the images fully apart from two; the heart in hands is; 


Article 3. Everyone has the right to life liberty and security of person. 


And the school child with the lunch box is;

Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Doll House!

So excited over this! Found a 1970s Caroline's Dolls house in a charity shop for a fiver! It's just the size I was looking for to restore! Can't wait to get going on it as a little on going project for myself, just waiting on some lights for it at the minute before I start.

One more quote illustrated

I decided to have a go at another Bruce Mau quote this one was 'Break it, Stretch it, Bend it, Crush it, Fold it'. I wanted to achieve the piece by representing the words at shapes, some of them work really well some of them could do with more tweaking but I really like the over all effect! I also used illustrator for some the shapes which was new to me.