Yet another fox

Latest work on my exciting project.........

I love working on this little chap, he is very very cute.

FREMSLEY!

I was lucky enough this week to meet the great illustrator Jonny Hannah at eca. He did a fantastic talk about his work, spoke to me about my work, and set a 48 hour brief to come up with a poster to advertise an imaginary record shop in Cowdenbeath.

From a list of possible spoken pieces to use for inspiration I chose "Fremsley" by Ivor Cutler. He is my new hero and Fremsley is my new favourite thing ever! Please look it up in YouTube. Cutler's work has been used in David Shrigley's work too.

This is my poster.

FREMSLEY.

New Story

I am VERY excited to be working on a project with a very good friend of mine who just happens to be an amazing author for kids. It is top secret at the moment, but here are some character sketches.

I love drawing foxes.

Filmhouse Poster

The successor to my role as Illustration Studio Assistant last year at eca has organised an exhibition in The Filmhouse cinema next month showcasing work produced in our print workshop. The brief was to choose a film, design a poster and print it. Simple. 

I chose Betty Blue, a French film from 1986, and here is my poster design. I screenprinted it.

Come along to see them all from March 12th (I think!).

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.