DRAWING CATS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY

don't forget you can follow the collaborative project i'm currently working on with matthew knight over at The A-Z of Technology!

WOT WOT!

last month i was commissioned by the beautiful janine of lesley's girls to create a vintage 1940s-feel poster to tie in with her husband's birthday celebrations. the party was CHAP themed (think: moustaches and tweed ahoy!), so i drew the birthday fella in a style evocative of the illustrations of that era, and paired him up with some nice letterpress-style fonts. tally ho!

p.s. janine wrote a wonderful blog post about the party, you can read it here. the photographs accompanying the post are particularly delightful!

FEBRUARY

february has been one of those strange months that you expect to be really quiet and then everything sneaks up on you and you suddenly find yourself at the end of the month thinking what the hell just happened and why is my face so grey. my day job has been manic, and my freelancing has been manic. i can't complain, being this busy leaves me feeling exhausted but extremely content at feeling like i've actually accomplished something.


so let me show you what i've been working on this month. the illustration above is taken from a project i started working on with matthew knight called the a-z of technology. the project is a blog collaboration, wherein each week matthew writes an article on a particular technology, and i illustrate it.


ABOVE: here's a cheeky little flyer i made for them lovely boys over at ice breaker promotions. yes, i'm hugely biased, but they've been successfully hosting gigs for and promoting local and student bands for over two years now, that one must give credit where credit's due.
ABOVE: a fun logo i was asked to create for crafty up-cyclers cheeky tiki island. their creations are beautiful, daft and completely unique, i highly recommend a little visit!


ABOVE: le gasp! a tiny preview of a private commission i was asked to make earlier this month. that's all you're getting of that one for now ;)


ABOVE: something a little way away from my usual style...an illustration produced for a 2-in-1 split poster design for lakeside theatre. see the full poster design here on my portfolio.


ABOVE: lastly for now, a little character from a big project i've just begun with elves and ovens, as part of a brand overhaul.

as well as that, in the last week i have also taken on two other projects, one branding/logo based and the other band merch based, but i'll wait until i've finished them to show them off :) thank you for reading - phew!

WHO'S THAT GIRL!

i recently watched the first season of new girl frightening quickly. i am in love with jess day's wardrobe and attitude towards life. i doodled her quickly this morning as a warm up illustration.

GULLS

for my work's secret santa, the challenge was to design and print a t-shirt for one another (we work in a t-shirt print shop). my "giftee" is in colchester-based band gulls, so my design is a pile of silliness based around that.

JOLLITIES

here is a little post dedicated briefly to the labels i designed for the christmas hampers jack & i made for our families last month. not really a thing, but i had fun creating these so i wanted to share them.
we made everything from scratch - limoncello, tomato chutney, strawberry jam, marshmallow twizzlers and loads more. it was the first time we had made a lot of these, but everything turned out superbly and our parents loved their gifts :)

LANDSLIDE

i was more than pleased to help out when local charity the robin cancer trust asked me to submit a piece of art for an auction to help raise money. the brief was completely open and we could produce whatever we wanted. i chose to illustrate a line from fleetwood mac's landslide.
the auction itself was postponed from last year until this year. watch this space.

SNEAK PEEK!

would you look at this little fella! why is he so concerned and bespectacled? he's a flipping seagull! he is from an illustration i started and finished today. he is also part of a present so i can't reveal him until the present has been given.

HELLES BELLES SCRATCH NIGHT

another poster from last november, this time for my favourite burlesquer's scratch night. this involved some more presenting of lots of text nicely on a page, but i naughtied (new word? new word.) it up with some cheeky pins.

CMPA LIVE!

a simple poster design i was asked by CMPA Live! to create for their november/december schedule. i do enjoy the challenge of trying to organise a lot of text, nicely, in a small space.

on a side note: hello! i appear to have got completely swept up in the jolly nice month-long party that is christmas time. and so, welcome to a huge back-log of ~last year's~ work.

here's to 2013! maybe i'll learn to capitalise at the start of sentences this year.