Character Design

Children's book sketches

For the follow-up to Track Attack by Betty Hicks.

A peek behind the scenes of Dark Rain

Additional info: These are the pencils to one of the pages posted on the Vertigo blog and the first I drew as it so happens.

DARK RAIN

Information about Dark Rain, the forthcoming DC/Vertigo book I'm proud to be illustrating here. It's written by Mat Johnson and this is a sample picture I did for it:

Sketches

Sketches from a trip to the Greek island of Meganissi. Disappointed I didn't draw (much) more - I got into it when it was almost time to leave. I'll have to have a word with myself or go for two weeks next time.

I was trying out a Rotring 'art pen' for the first time and whilst the nib itself is passé, I had fun making a mess with it's non-waterproof ink.

Characters

A pregnant woman and a girl looking at a fifty foot-away doll.

Track Attack

That children's book I illustrated and keep banging on about is out today.You can now follow me on Twitter!

Old pic

Illustration....

...for Total Guitar in '04. Something tells me I drew this at the same time...

Book cover...

...for the follow-up to Track Attack.

Come On, Pig...

Drew this for the mighty Profane Existence zine back in the day.

Track Attack

Here are the cover pics for 'Track Attack', written by Betty Hicks and illustrated by me. I've already posted numerous preparatory sketches and interior illustrations from it.Here it is on publisher Roaring Brook Press's website and for pre-order (it's not out until July) on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. It's the fifth title in Betty's 'Gym Shorts' series. The first four were illustrated by Adam McCauley and I recommend his website.

cidfijobiojcbioxcvbioxcvbioj[cxbi[joxcvbij[xcvb

Spot the difference between penciled and finished art. I confess I thought that inkwell might be a little behind the times.
I do seem to be posting a lot of wholesome stuff at the moment, don't I? Not giving an accurate account of myself at all! I'm actually hard at work illustrating a graphic novel, but it's unannounced so I shouldn't post anything related to it yet. I will say that the script is ******* awesome though.

Wedding invite

Note that there was a last minute request to get the bride-to-be's cats in there. The up-hill struggle subtext was unintentional!

Here's a couple of those children's book pics inked

Serge Gainsbourg

Drew this for a new blog started by Jonathan Edwards cryptically titled Draw Serge!
He's posted some awesome pics already and unless you don't want to draw Serge, you should consider contributing yourself!

Another children's book rough

More sketches

Children's book sketches

A few in-progress pics.
I hadn't really settled on the Dad's face by this point, hence the slight discrepancy between the following two images that I'll rectify.The last was a quicker one, but I was pleased with her contented expression so decided to stick with it. I will improve him though, because now that I've erased their hungry cat, it's safe for him to lower the ice cream.

Black dress