Paris sketches

Dark Rain Preview

The Huffington Post have an 8 page preview of Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story, written by Mat Johnson and illustrated by me. If you'd like to read it, please click here.

Sketchbook pages

Here are some recent sketches. A Palladian bridge in the grounds of Prior Park near Bath...
...and a mill in the village of Monkton Combe.

Baby, I love you

Yesterday I found myself drawing this Ronnie Spector type after admiring the Big Hair-do's on Jonathan Edwards' blog.

Dark Rain

I recently received my copies of Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story, written by Mat Johnson, illustrated by me and and published this month by Vertigo. Here are a few poor quality snaps.
The fine cover by Nessim Higson has a nice spot varnish on it as well as a quote by cartoonist Josh Neufeld - a true honour. If you haven't read A.D.: New Orleans After The Deluge, you must.

Here are a few photos of the interior - I've opted to show pages already previewed. The toning is by Lee Loughridge and these photos don't do his artwork justice. I think it's remarkable how much he got out of one colour.Mat writes about the book here.

Greece sketches

I've been on holiday to the Greek islands of Samos and Fourni and did some sketching. First up is a view of the main street in Fourni followed by the rest in the order I drew them. There's quite a few so I hope your eyes don't glaze over too soon! They're drawn with a Pentel pocket pen and wash in an A5 sketchbook.

Tree sketches

Yesterday evening a friend and I hooked up with a fantastic group of local artists for a sketching session in the park. It's the truth, officer. They were most welcoming and it was inspiring to be drawing in their company. Hopefully it'll become a regular thing.
These were drawn with two Pentel pocket pens - one for the black and an empty one for the wash.

Bath sketches

I got into a bit of a pickle with the second one (hence the strange placement of the text!) but I think drawing directly in ink - rather than mapping out the view in pencil first - gives the buildings a bit more character and also forces me to look harder and hopefully generalise less.

London sketches

From the windy garret

Hi friends. Here are a couple of details of a painting I've been working on. As with the previous one it's acrylics & household paint mixed with plaster and is 24x36".
Also, check out Absinthe Frappé by Jonathan Edwards!

Starting a new painting

Here's a detail of the under-drawing.

Painting

Here is the top half of a painting I've been working on along with a couple of close-ups. It's 24x36" and was fun!

Panel

...from DC/Vertigo's Dark Rain.

T-shirt Talk

My old friend Marc at Wow Cool has printed these Sap t-shirts just in time for Summer. Sap was a mid-90's mini comic series written by Ian Lynam & Kim Fern and drawn by me. This artwork is from 2005. It features the girl on the front, the boy on the back and the Sap logo on the sleeve. If you're in the States and would like one, please click here.

I have some to sell in the UK. If you'd like one they're available in sizes S, M, L & XL and cost £8 postpaid. I accept PayPal, my email address is in my profile.Still available: this Vapid t-shirt, again in sizes S, M, L & XL and £8 postpaid to UK residents.Finally, this is a recent drawing for a fanzine cover:

Painting

Or rather, a small detail of a drawing that will hopefully become a painting.

A bit more of the Graphic Classics strip

A few...

...finished panels from A Luckless Santa Claus: