mark gatiss

For the first time in probably 20 years I have brought new paintbrushes and here is me getting used to them!

red-apple Illustration

Snow White illo that was rejected for being too 'worldy wise' (quite right)

simon pegg sketch

another page from 'Larvae'

Inside of the vampire restaurant 'Lugosi's'. Coming from Northampton I couldn't resist the tenuous vampire/bauhaus link

larvae, masks & vampires again

Another page from 'Larvae, Masks & Vampires" some bits need adjusting. Feels like this is taking forever and I haven't even got to the interesting bits yet!

Alan Moore Sketch

Alan Moore pen & ink sketch, just to warm up

Courtney Lawes

A snippett of Northampton Saints and England rugby player Courtney (Long Arm of The) Lawes that will soon available as a print

latest rugby paper illustration

Here is the latest illustration from the Rugby Paper showing the South Africans Hoskins and De Villiers as puppet and puppeteer.

pen sketching

More sketching, trying to get more texture in.

holiday sketch

Sketching whilst drinking Metaxa on holiday.

butch james

A close up of an illustration of butch james for this weeks 'The rugby paper'. Somebody won't let someone play for some team, oh dear.

andy ripley

Here's a cartoon of the great sporting corinthian Andy Ripley done for this weeks 'The Rugby Paper', as well as playing for England and Rosslyn Park he was also a 400m champion, rower and winner of Superstars.

Book Illustrations

Here some photos of a book that I have illustrated called Alternative Endings. The 'Alternative Endings' contains illustrations of writers, actors and luminaries such as Phillip Pullman, John Le Carre, Dr Ben Goldacre, Juliet Stevenson, Ralph Brown and Jon Snow.

algernon blackwood

Todays warm up, quabbalist and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Algernon Blackwood.

Poe Faced

A warm up sketch of the darkling Poe

warm up moore

Todays warm up painting Mr. Moore.

barbarella

Here's a quick fake barbarella painted in acrylic.

Special Kind of Trouble

I came across this little piece of odd americana the other day, I thought that it had been lost over various house moves across the country, but there it was slumbering flatly at the bottom of a draw, almost arthurian in manner, waiting for its time.

'It happened to Alice' was a small comic produced by Archie Entreprises in the 80's and was used by the American AA (there is an address for Grand Central Station in the back). I have no idea how I came to own this and its brother but it is a fascinatingly moral slice of trash.

Oh, and remember it could happed to ANY woman, even the one next door with 7 kids.

don't you throw those bloody spears

Here's a very 30 minute rendering of mr. caine, still not sure about this bloody wacom though.