Currently producing some roughs for illustrations to accompany a self-published edition of Charles Dickens' The Signal-Man.  I'm toying with the idea of digging out my dusty, rusty rapidographs to render them but not sure if this solution is a tad predictable given the 19th Century source material.  One must move with the times...

Also, knocking about solutions for an illustrated map of Medway in Kent, pasting together a promo flier for Epic English Doom Metallers Khthon, and, at last, writing the first draft of my soon-to-be magnum opus Business As Usual, a graphic documentary about the Blitz.

But of course first I must tidy my studio and make a cup of tea...

Posted on 2 March 2009 


Umbrella Sir?  Galoshes or Kagool?

Working up some thumbnail roughs for a picture book provisionally entitled It Rained One Day and Everything Stopped. It addresses important issues pertaining to global warming, climate change and where to obtain the materials necessary to build an ark if B&Q is shut due to adverse weather.   It's a light hearted, irreverent treatise on the perils of mass indifference and asks the question: how would the population of Britain react if faced with an actual meteorological crisis*? The answer, rather predictably, revolves around a pot of tea and lashings of buttered toast...

*3cm of snowfall that melts the following day does NOT constitute a national emergency.

For speed, I'm employing the same method of constructing imagery for the roughs that I used for the illustrations in Mother Banks at the Museum of Tales.  This combination of found imagery, photography and digital painting is a splendid way to save money on ink, pencil and paper and thoroughly recommended to financially challenged technophiles in these troubled times.

Posted on 2 February 2009