If you haven’t already caught the Out of This World exhibition at London’s British Library, you’ve only a few weeks left: it finishes on Sept 25th. The exhibition presents beautiful and rare editions of a host of wonders from the history of SF, together with perceptive commentary, author interviews and all manner of other imagination-expanding [...]
Category > Illustrations!
You hum it, I’ll play it.
I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks so will leave you with this piece of a/w I did today for a friend. A sort of request. I’m not sure what it means, but it’ll play me out as I pack my bag and jump on a plane. Of course, when I say [...]
Angel vs Demon
I recently started a new sketchbook with this image. Within pages this happened. It wasn’t long before all hell broke loose. There’s a story in this somewhere. I like drawing these buffoons. Watch this space…
Run, don’t walk, from…. the MONSTERS FROM THE MORGUE!
Heyho, Guest blogger Laura here once more to share some monsterlicious news. For those of you who like monsters, movies and comics (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) this is the stuff for you! You may recall my rather swift last post which mentioned my mental busyness on ‘super fun top secret project’ ???? No? [...]
King Gobbledegook
Now I’m very critical when it comes to pretty much anything I produce. There is always something I wish I had done better. Always. But sometimes I get close to where I was heading (in my mind), when I began the work. This illustration shows King Gobbledegook from the book The Tale of Jack Frost. Here [...]
Don’t judge a book by its cover (take a look inside as well).
I was leafing through an old sketchbook the other day and came across this sketch of Magpie, one of the characters from my picture book The Ghost Library. For some reason it triggered a comment made to me by a parent as I sat in a bookshop signing copies of the book at an event. [...]
Charity Auction!
It’s not often that I sell my artwork. I guess I’m thinking that one day I’ll have some kind of retrospective exhibition that will ease me into retirement. Meanwhile, 95% of my pictures are stored, rather too messily for my liking, in my loft. But there are exceptions to the rule. I was invited by [...]
My bookcase has a new arrival…
Hi all! Guest blogger Laura back again! I know! I know! I said i’d post up about the book i’m illustrating, packed with ghosties, mummy’s, vamps, moving statues, gambling zombies, pond creatures, and such things as the unmentionables which dwell beneath manhole covers… but oh no, I have not done so (yet). This is becaaauuuse… [...]
Doodles
A page from my current sketchbook showing some familiar characters I like doodling at the moment. You may recognise some of the ‘themes’ from recent posts over the past couple of weeks.
A Great Blog!
There are only a handful of blogs that I follow on a regular basis but if I had to pick my favourite it would probably this one here: mattiasa.blogspot.com/ The Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson, blogs pretty much everyday, often using a moleskin to make these incredible drawings. As an illustrator you are often asked where [...]
