Paper Tiger

As usual it has been too long since I posted anything new up here so I think there may be a wave of new stuff hitting my blog in the next week.

I am very pleased to now be working with Paper Tiger and Studio One on their posters and advertising. They want to keep some of their iconic images and use them in contemporary ways.

This is the latest; a Valentine's advertisement due to hit The Scotsman.

I am working on Studio One, and trying to design a series of images for them to use around the shop and in their advertising.

Students

Following on from Jeremy Kyle, I am now drawing 'University Challenge' teams.

Co-incidentally, I have been asked to produce an illustration comparing uni students to art students and here are the results, as drawn from real-life episodes. Luckily this week the first ever art school appeared on the programme, making this commission a whole lot easier!

I am proud to be a double art school graduate!

Wee Exhibition in Bijou, Leith Links

My pal of many-a-year Miss Weezil Gribinson, or Liza Robinson as she is actually called, has kindly asked me to adorn the walls of her lovely little bistro 'Bijou' in Leith Links, Edinburgh, with some animals. Always eager to oblige, I am hanging my work on Thursday night. It is a small collection of animals and characters who featured in another exhibition I had last year with fellow illustrator Vicki Gausden.

They are all available to buy as digital prints for a very reasonable price!

Here is a lovely lion.

London Here I Come (again)

WOW! What a busy week I have lined up. After a kind of boring weekend I now have soooo much to do before Saturday, when I fly off to East Midlands Airport. There is a single launch gig on Saturday night to celebrate the release of Superevolver's single 'Viva La Revolution' (OUT ON MONDAY 8TH NOVEMBER, AVAILABLE ON I-TUNES SO BUY IT!) for which I did the artwork, and on Monday I am travelling to London to visit Walker Books. Exciting times!

This is one of the roughs for my book. It is a hedgehogs' equivalent of the side of my fridge where I keep all sorts of unimportant information and photos.

And another fox......

Here is the grumpy fox again. He is searching for Harry and Barry the squirrel twins!

I am working on quite a mixture of stuff at the moment which is great. I am also really loving my time up at the art college with Kate, Casey, Juuuuuuuulia and Via. Haven't actually worked with any students yet but there's plenty of time for that! Just back from a full-on weekend of gigs in Dublin; wont be able to afford to go back there for a while, HOW expensive?!!! Still recovering from that. Time for a nap.......

SUPEREVOLVER ARE SUPER

Best brief in ages....I have been asked to produce the artwork for Leicester band Superevolver's new single, featuring Kasabian's Tom Meighan.

It will be released on November 8th and proceeds go to charity so make sure you download it!

This is the cover, and I am also busy producing a booklet for the inside of the CD when it is released.

I love Superevolver.

New work

I am writing and illustrating a story for children at the moment and this is the very first rough for it! I love drawing foxes. This is a particularly grumpy fox.

I am back at Edinburgh College of Art tomorrow as Artist in Residence and I cant wait! I have a studio space with the Masters students and am planning to spend a lot of time in the Print Workshop (where I will be working with the students 1 day a week).

It will be good to be surrounded by people again after a lonely summer in my studio by myself!

Latest from Jeremy Kyle

As usual it has been ages since I posted anything on here so thought I'd share my latest selection of gentlemen from the Kyle in the past 2 weeks. What an attractive bunch they are too. Still not sure what I'm going to do with my 200+ drawings, I'm hoping for some genius inspiration as ever.

I am getting a website update today so I will add some of these drawings onto that, as well as some other stuff I've been doing (if I can find anything I like enough!).

I have been taking it easy the past few weeks and helping the MA illustrators through their last month of working. Go see their show if you can this week, especially Ms Holly Cust's selection of animals. She is ace.

It's my second big race of the year next week, Glasgow's half marathon. Cant wait for it to be over so I can maybe get a lie-in one day! Until then, I will leave you with Jeremy's lovely men!

JEREMY KYLE, YES OR NO!!!!?

I have been spending my mornings lately swimming a LOT and then (after stuffing my face) drawing all the victims of the awful daytime TV do-gooder, Mr Jeremy Kyle. I am now on sketchbook number 6 and have scanned all of them. I now have the task of putting them together in some kind of amazing piece of work......I feel a screenprint coming on.

DID I MENTION THAT I AM ECA ARTIST IN RESIDENCE FOR ILLUSTRATION 2010/11?!!!

Drawing Book Poster

Hooray! Here is a great poster advertising the Drawing Book exhibition.

I love the drawing of the man and the pencil which I photographed during playtime at one of the schools we worked in. I have to confess that I didn't have many letters drawn by the kids, so I got some of the illustration masters students to help me out by drawing half of them. I think it's hard to tell which ones are which though which says a lot for the talents of Holly and Casey!

It's a lovely sunny day today and I think it's time for an ice cream and a sit on the balcony with the best views in Edinburgh. Lucky me!