Digital Artist and Illustrator
A quick sketch of the Vocal Beatbox and Musical Noise genius Beardyman.
He posted a video this morning on his Facebook page running a little competition for fans like myself to get involved with. I freeze framed the video and made this image from the freeze frame.
Never heard of Beardyman. Why the chuff not? Check him out here… www.beardyman.co.uk
Art and creativity is everywhere. You just need to look for it.
Here are a recent collection of images. They are a mixture of hand drawn and digital art play.
His name is Scoper.
He has just been hit by cupid’s arrow and is about to fall in love.
Maybe he will fall over first.
It’s hard to know.
Found this the other day. It’s a triptych of characters painted on board that I did back in 2007.
I’m not actually sure what happened to them or where they ended up, but I have always loved these characters.
Face illustration on A2 cartridge paper.
Berol Pen, Quink Ink, Posca Pen & Biro.
Illustration Concept for a poster.
Pen drawing, digitally edited and coloured.
The truth is, one thing leads to another.
New Illustration
Cartoon line boy, a super hero boy, equipped with a cape he’s a gold tooth boy.
He’s an out there boy, a real hero boy, a fine and dandy do it well and for the people boy!
Yep. That is the shape of my head. From a certain angle of course.
SPECTRUM
The trick is to be one!
New Illustration
Messing with the tablet, textures and using a limited colour palette.
This image is derived from a photo that my father took of me when I was about 8 years old.
New illustration.
Continuing with a theme of images with positive messages,
where the imagery doesn’t necessarily reflect the message.
This is a quick tablet drawing/illustration of my little girl.
She watches me like a hawk when I am doing anything arty or creative.
We have been doing some artwork together which I will post up at some point.
She’s really rather good too.
Art is in fact EVERYWHERE!
When you take a good look around, you can find beauty in the most mundane of places.
It’s all about keeping your eyes open and being willing to look at the world just that little bit differently.
Here is some beauty that I found in a sink.
‘Oi!’ – Hand Tufted Wool Rug – Collaboration Artwork
Not so long ago I teamed up with Andrew Warburton of Area Rugs www.arearugs.co.uk
Andrew is a highly skilled and experienced carpet maker using hand-tufting methods in the production of his carpets and rugs. He has been designing and making unique and exclusive hand-tufted rugs and carpets since graduating in 1988 with a first class honours degree in carpet design.
He was intrigued by the style and technique of my illustrations and thought that they would transfer well into a carpet design. He had seen an illustration of mine called ‘Oi!’ that he thought would work well and that would be both quirky and impacting. Andrew set to on interpreting the image with pure wool. The results are below.
The design is first sketched out to scale.
The wool is then worked into a type of man-made muslin cloth!
When the tufting process is finished the topside is then cropped to get an even pile.
This is done with a machine that works a little like a lawnmower.
Rugs can also be carved and sculptured by using a carving machine a little like the clippers used to sheer sheep.
When the rug has gone through all these processes it is then backed with a natural latex and hessian.
Rug Entitled: Oi!
Size: 1.7 by 1.2 Metres.
The result was absolutely outstanding. Andrew made an incredibly accurate interpretation of the original design, I’m sure you will agree!
