I’ve been pretty busy recently and have had a few unfinished illustrations floating around on my computer for a while. Amongst the christmas shopping, card writing and tree decorating I’ve finally had the time to finish one. I quite like christmas these days, although it all seems over too quickly after a manic month of preparation. In Worcester we have a traditional Victorian Christmas fayre every year where coach loads…
The guys over at The Pure Gallery in Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear have a couple of my illustrations up on display and for sale. Featured are “Fate” and “Heart of Skulls” both available in my online store. The gallery’s walls are scattered with awesome artwork including work by fantastic illustrators/artists like Chris Bourke, Guy McKinley, Mister Millerchip and The Dead Sea Mob…
Ali over at Burst Magazine has been doing a grand job of promoting and exposing up and coming creatives from all over the globe. Each month a new issue is released with a different theme to keep the content fresh and reach all aspects of creativity and art. For the Christmas issue, Burst Magazine is offering 12 limited edition postcards…
I’ve finally got around to getting some lovely prints done and set up an online shop over at belletragedie.bigcartel.com. They are printed on A3 300gm recycled art board and have a fantastic texture to them, unfortunately the web images don’t do it justice. There are currently 4 prints available (as shown below) but hopefully will have more up soon! One off prints of other artwork are available..
This image is a play on the idea that everyone has a dark side whether they like it or not, and along with your good side together they make up your personality. If everyone was nice all the time and just went along with what everyone else said and did then the world would be a very boring place.
Maybe your darker side, or your demons, are the competitive, ruthless or creative side…
So now we are waving goodbye to another awful summer, creeping into autumn and looking forward to cold feet and not being able to afford to put our heating on this winter. So with all this optimism, I have produced this lovely illustration inspired by The Smiths song ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’. I’m sure the song conveys different emotions to different people, also depending on moments in life…
This is an idea I’ve had stored away for a while but hadn’t got round to it. It’s based on the lyrics to ‘I’m dying tomorrow’ by Alkaline Trio. It’s a simple song asking ones self about ones life if one has accomplished all the things one wanted to do near the end – one too many ones there one thinks. It sounds quite grim but has a positive spin on the subject…
If you are reading this then you would have noticed I have given my website a bit of a face-lift, I hope it is as pleasing to your eyes as a curry and a pint of cobra on a Friday night. I’ve been quite busy of late with various projects and jobs so this is the first post I have written in a while. This illustration titled ‘Possession’ has been a work in progress piece for a while which I have now finally got round to finishing…
This illustration titled {Time Is Our Biggest Enemy} was inspired by the lack of time I seem to have these days, I suppose it can also be looked at on a much grander scale of life and human existence itself. But I genuinely believe that as we get older time seems to go quicker. I have a pile of computer games that I want to play, albums I want to listen to and a basket ball that hasn’t seen a court for a while…
This was an illustration as requested by my lovely wife Laura, inspired by the lyrics from one of her favourite songs ‘Mailbox Arson’ by Alexisonfire. I originally had two versions of this image, both shown below, but went with the fire-globe idea…
This was my submission for the Versus 2 project where illustrators were asked to pick any number or picture card (Jack, Queen, King, Ace) and produce an illustration relative to that number, or picture card. Out of all the submissions a final 13 illustrators were chosen to be featured in a full deck of cards which would then be sent out to potential employers and clients to help the illustrators get employment or freelance work…
At the moment there are loads of spiders hanging around my house and they have all come from one of those fluffy cotton wool looking spider eggs that I found in my garden about a week ago. Its a fantastic sight to see them all hatching and setting off on their little adventures, their webs catching in the breeze, not know where they are going to end up or whether they will make it further…
