What's Your Type Competition

I entered a competition at the end of last year run by @ohmommauk.  The subject struck me, it was to design your favourite letter.  I'd been meaning to work on some typography so, le perfect excuse, non?  So I went about my process and came up with this:

I was pretty pleased with it but something was eating away in the back of my mind.  Anyway, months later here I am, going back and realising that there's something HUGE missing from it - it doesn't glow!  Alas, I've been playing...

Now, tell me, is there ANYTHING that can't be made better with neon??

A Little Something for C'LECTIVE

A little something I knocked up for our new collective - C'LECTIVE.  The idea was to show that this is a collective across the arts disciplines.  A massive ven diagram, if you will.  Visit C'LECTIVE on Tumblr.

Doodles #19 & #20

Meet Ne'er Do Well.  Despite mostly being made of legs, hovering is his main mode of transport.  He has two eyeballs in one eye socket, enabling him to keep an eye on everything.  Ne'er do Well likes reading Judge Dredd and one day would like to be an executioner.  Or a judge.  But not a jury.

Mrs. Rushaluff is very busy, she's even grown extra arms to enable her to multi-task.  Who said evolution doesn't work?  Mrs. Rushaluff lives in a sea cave but collects discarded trinkets from passing boats to decorate her home with.  It's a neo-colonialist/Edwardian classic.  When she's not scavenging, Mrs. Rushaluff teaches at the local school and volunteers at the shellter charity shop.

Doodle #18

Just a quickie!  Couldn't help myself whilst catching up with Q.I.  

First Published Illustrations

It's been an exciting few days, working on illustrations for Amelia's Magazine and seeing them published.  Makes me realise how amazing being an Illustrator is and how I've chosen the right path!  Thought I'd show you some images from the process, a good ol' pen and paper, scanner and PhotoShop job.  The images are based on the menswear shows for Trine Lindegaard and Posthuman Wardrobe at London Fashion Week A/W 2011.  Great fun to work on and the lighting on the catwalk is perfect for picking up shadows.

Firstly, I drew the images in pen based on photograph's provided by the magazine, I then scanned these in.

Sketch of Trine Lindegaard A/W 2011 Collection
Read the article in Amelia's Magazine

 Once in Photoshop, I experimented with the shadows and colour, taking care to match the colour as closely to the original as possible.  It was interesting to see how the digital colours interacted with the hand drawn images.  I hope you like them.

The finished image of the Posthuman Wardrobe A/W 2011 Collection
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Doodle #17

Based on the poster for the film, this was an experiment to line draw the amazing
shadows in the original.  I weirdly drew Msr. Gainsbourg in actual life rather than Eric Elmosnino who was on the poster.

Doodle #16

Whilst working on a recent project that required some
soviet Russia research I ended up doodling Lenin.  The result?
This.  Fat Lenin.  I think I was hungry whilst drawing.