// May 18th, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Graphics
Yup, that’s right - it’s everyone’s favourite animal in everyone’s favourite colours… or… my current favourite animal in my current favourite colours (well it is my blog)
You may have seen me promote this on Facebook as a Threadless design, if so then look at it again and if not, then look at it!
// March 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Cartoons
The best thing about going through old sketch pads is finding a portrait of yourself in a weird style with bong eyes and a toothless man with a fish…
// March 14th, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Cartoons
Sketched this out yesterday. I’ve been doodling this idea in various form for about about a year now but I’m quite happy with this. Just need to make a decision on the fringe and then find a wall…
// March 11th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Art, Cartoons
So, there’s this great blog called ‘Covered‘ which is basically a place for people to submit their versions of existing comic book covers. I heard about it through my mate Andrew Waugh (check out his recent Planet of the Apes comic, it’s ace) who had some work featured himself.
Anyway, I figured I could go in for a bit of that and submitted the following two pieces. They both got rejected.
Luckily I have my own blog with about two readers (one of which is me) so I can post them here and make myself feel better!
// November 7th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Art, Cartoons
So the other day I came across a box of old doodles, cartoons, random drawings and sketches - basically a combination of old sketch pads and scraps of scribbled on paper. I figured it was kind of sad that they were just stuffed in a box only to be remembered every few years, so now thanks to the awesomeness of blogs I can begin the mammoth task of compiling them all online giving them a new audience and a new home.
Essentially it’s a gradual compilation of random thoughts and pieces of work, most that never amounted to anything other than amusing me for 5 minutes …I guess if nothing else it will interesting trip down memory lane.
Clown: Jan/Feb 2004
This was from a sketch pad I used when travelling in Australia - Thinking about it I’ve been working with the idea of clowns since 2002!
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Cartoon: Early 2007
Part of the prize for winning Young Cartoonist of the Year in 2006 was providing a commissioned piece for an Insurance company who sponsored the competition. This was an initial idea which wasn’t used as it turned out it needed to be much more specific. I still like this, I don’t often sit down and try to think of things, I like to put pen to paper and see what happens but this one was thought up to a brief and I was quite chuffed with myself (although I am a sucker for a good pun!)
Click to see my winning entry for Young Cartoonist of the Year
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Random Drawing:2003
Just a random sketch. Most of the stuff in these little sketch books were done on train journeys or when I was bored. This is an example of the putting pen to paper and see what happens as mentioned above. No idea why I drew this but I really like the aesthetic - and drawing in Biro is always good.
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Harry Potter: 2003
I have loads of pieces like this - ideas that came to mind and were scribbled down. A lot of this stuff was used for a mini comic series I started back then called ‘Doodle-O-Rama’. I think I planned to use this one in No.4 which never got made, I also toyed with the Idea of a ‘Doodle-0-Rama Compedium’ a few years later but never got round to it… maybe I should finally do it?
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Dead Clown: 2002
Clowns again! I used to work in a restaurant and at the end of the night I’d get bored and doodle in note pads. ‘Dead Clown’ became a thing I kept going back to, there are quite a lot of these, and quite a lot of ways to kill a clown (not that I endorse clown murder).
I’ll put another one from this series next time.
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// May 20th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Cartoons
That’s right folks, back in 2006 I won Young Cartoonist of the Year, a compettition held by the The Cartoon Art Trust.
I was pretty humbled by the whole thing and don’t normaly go on about it but I’ve always felt a little miffed by the fact they wouldn’t put the cartoon strip on their website. I understand why they didn’t (it’s a little rude and Prince Phillip is the patron of the Trust!) but i still feel it should have got some exposure - after all it wasn’t intended to offend or make any strong political statements, it’s just a funny cartoon.
Anyway, judge for yourselves…
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