The slayers

29Jan08

Here’s a brand new illustration page from the beginning of my story, just introducing the characters. Click it bigger:

I’m just posting this stuff as I churn it out, so I have yet to do a layout with the facing page of text yet, but it would be this here blurb about each slayer:
Clockwise from top-left:
Wilfred [...]

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More slaying

28Jan08

Hey chums, I tried out a few flatter arrangements for the dragon slayers’ coat of arms idea in the studio today and I think they turned out more traditional-feeling as intended, but also funnier:

The first one above is my favourite. The last one is going back to being too dynamic but is quite fun all the same. [...]

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Dragon Slayers’ Club

27Jan08

This is an idea for the cover of my next mini book, which is about an elite, ultra-competitive extreme dragon slaying club made up of four knights.

So this is kind of their coat of arms. I think the symmetry of the flames helps to make it feel symbolic and heraldic but the rest of it is composed too dynamically or [...]

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Forum poster

09Jan08

I designed a poster for this year’s Illustration Forum at University College Falmouth (where I’m currently working on my MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice). Click:

Last year’s forum on publishing graphic literature was excellent and at this year’s happening, the guests will be discussing storytelling. So the idea with my poster is that your eyes can construct different stories by following my little explorer dude around [...]

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Tiger

01Jan08

Welcome, and Happy New Year! This is the place to be for drawings by me. To start with, here’s a tiger I drew a while ago. I tried to give his face markings a classy curly-moustache feel.

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