Category > Illustrations!
NUCLEAR
Our current TBM Guest Blogger, ace illustrator Phil Harvey returns with the following beautiful / horrifying / beautiful image: “It’s a break away from my usual daft artwork to give space to recent events,” Phil says. For more of his work, check his website.
Monsters, Monsters Everywhere!
Niamh Sharkey picks her top 5 Monster Picture Books for Library Mice Blog.
Some time ago, a year or more, I posted this strip sequence – if you can call it that. Nothing more than a silly moment played out between a couple of characters I like to draw every now and again. Well, it occurred to me that I do re-visit these visual ideas often, not just [...]
Hand-Cut Silhouette
I was recently at my publisher’s annual conference a few weeks back and whilst I was dining and drinking my way through the evening (it’s a tough job but someone’s gotta do it), there was an silhouette artist Alison Russell. She was there with a sharp pair of scissors and a small satchel of [...]
ICE CREAM NIGHTMARE
A monstrous TBM welcome to today’s Guest Blogger, illustrator Phil Harvey, who, for your shuddersome delectation, presents the following: “It’s a one page comic strip about an ICE CREAM NIGHTMARE. The whole strip was off the top of my head really. I have attached a ‘making of’ after the final version.” “I have been trying [...]
Before and After
Nearly finished The Totally Terrifying Three artwork – here’s another before and after piece. The last few weeks have been manic and, just like this character is doing, I’ve watched another deadline zip by this last week. Sigh. Still, it’ll all be forgotten when this little tinker finally makes it onto the bookshelves a few [...]
Viking part 2!
This is a couple of days late in arriving, but World Book Day has taken over and is eating all the monsters (and time) in the world. So here’s the second instalment of the Viking comic, and our trusty hero is returning from the hunt.
Doodles from Trinity College
Some doodles from my doodle trip to Early Printed Books in Trinity College, Dublin.
