SPRIOU TEASER!!!

Here's a little teaser from a two-page comic I produced for Spirou. I'll post the whole thing once it hits the news stands. The same issue will also feature some deliciously tasty contributions from Dave Needham, Sylvain Marc and Alan Kerswell, artists with whom I've had the displeasurable pleasure of working alongside for a very long time. Big thanks to Etienne Gilfillan for bringing it all together.

Speaking of Dave Needham, check out his new blog where he'll be ungracefully dumping his doodles onto the interweb for your viewing discomfort. I first met Dave when we were both 8 years old and we've been drawing together, fighting each other and generally embarrassing ourselves ever since. This is a cover we produced as an illustrative partnership for Oddbins Wine Merchants 2002 price guide.

WHAT THE?!

This was produced for a fun project I was asked to take part in by Erika Medina. The fantastically talented Dave DeGrand also made a monstrous contribution!

MONKEY CAKE - PART 2!!!

Here are details of the 'Animal Mix-Ups!!!' puzzle from the back of the Marks and Spencers cake box I did earlier last year.

KILL THE ELF!!

I did this for a certain young Elf on the occasion of his birthday. And, with a tremendous shock to the system, I actually used REAL paint and brushes!!!!

MONKEY CAKE - PART 1!!!

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of unleashing my scribbles on some cake packaging for Marks and Spencers in the UK. Here are the results! If you click on the second image of the full box wrap-around design you should be able to see the details more clearly.

SCRUFFERS!

These are the two hairy shit bags that share our flat with us. The lady at the bottom likes licking plastic bags and the gentleman at the top enjoys eating sick.

POLLUTION MONSTER!

Here are some rough colour set-ups and character designs I did for a commercial pitch earlier this year.

THE HIDEOUS AMPHIBO-MAN!!!

GREETINGS EARTHLINGS - PART 2!!!

Some more silly scribbles from the Greetings Earthlings kids book.

GREETINGS EARTHLINGS - PART 1!!!

Here's a bunch of black and white illustrations I did last year for an Alien-themed kids book of poems called Greetings Earthlings published by Macmillan.

HIPPOPOTAMOUSE!

Here are some designs that were pitched for a series of kids books featuring the results of animal cross-breeding! This one is what would happen if a mouse somehow mated with a hippo.

CHIMPS!!!

These were produced as stickers for a book designed to help children with behavioral problems. The chimps had the unenviable task of helping the kids identify and understand different emotions etc.

MORE ILLUSTRATIONS!

The top one was done for a poster to advertise a production at the Polka Theatre in London, and the bottom one was produced for an article about healthy eating in Sainsbury's magazine.

DOGHEAD!

Here's some character illustration work I produced for Jill Marshal's children's book, Doghead, published by Macmillan in the UK. It's about a boy who is bitten by a stray dog in a graveyard and discovers he is destined to become Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead: half-human, half-jackal!

The top one is the artwork they used on the cover and the two pieces below are the rough character development work and potential poses for the cover.

SKETCHBOOK STUFF!

My Illustration Agent recently asked me to do a post on their blog about Sketchbooks and what they mean to me. You can check out the post here. Below are some more sketchbook pages that they didn't have room to include in their post.

SOME OLD CHARACTER DESIGN STUFF!

Here's some old character design/development stuff and an illustration of our cat, Dudu. You can buy a print of him here if your heart so desires! Nowadays he's about 5000% fluffier than he appears in that picture.

ILLUSTRATION MUNDO - INTERVIEW!

Nate Williams recently asked me to do an interview for his fantastic website ILLUSTRATION MUNDO. If you want to find out more about me than you ever needed to know, then you can check out the interview here.

BILLY SWEET MONSTER!!

Earlier this year the wonderfully talented TOUGUI kindly asked me to contribute a design to his range of Billy Sweet Monster paper toys. Here's the finished result! Follow the link to download the template and build one of your very own!

HEY!

Apologies for the huge gap in posting. I've been VERY busy for the first half of this year working on a development for the Cartoon Network. It's based on a short I produced for them last year. Here are a few images from the short and a rough comic I did while developing the project. Huge thanks to Rikke Asbjorn, Stephane Coedel, Lee Gingold, Rich Wake, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Alan Kerswell, Celine Desrumaux, Dave Newby, Timothy Bjorklund, Charlie Bean and Steve Small for all their fantastic help with the short.