THE HOUSE OF APPROVAL APPROACHES

So i was inspired by the continued written out-pourings of a certain andrew g on his my space, i'll find the link later, to illustrate and print a few of his stories and see how much trouble it got me in. Under pressure i wrote my own story about a girl digging up a buried spirit. The story was inspired by the pic - which was inspired by this crazy little cafe in berlin, where everything as for sale and there were trees in the back yard that were as tall as the buildings (four stories high) which gave for a mini forest in yer back yard type feel. great place to play as a kid. over here the council would have cut them down - but berlin has kind of a fluid stance on health and safety.

BARNARDOS

So here's some of the hundereds of pieces that I did for Barnardos workshops, a great job that made me reach to get the right tone for the images needed.

WRONG AGAIN

Coupla one off pieces here - again testin new style for the girls and really wishing i could come up with a story. I decided to scrap all existing ideas and try for a self contained loop of a story. i was wanting to think more out of the box. - But i was getting loadsa comercial work - mainly from Barnardos - so celph never mad print in 2008. Instead i used my print privillages up on publishing a series of illustrated short stories, which i thought would take up less time than doing a comic .... how wrong was i....

CELPH TEST

Back to Celph - again - a few pages to try out size/format of a new strip. inevitably abandoned, I still really like the sequence so I thought I’d put it up here. It was the research for Celph book four which is pouring out of my head now, (summa 2009). it is a one pannel per page - no text story. i've been trying to keep it short - but it looks like at least a hundered pages long - so i'm doing it in three self contained shorts. it's gonna be tiny pocket sized and owes a lot to the downbeat tail of "Poor Sailor" by sammy harkham. (Buy Sammy’s work on Amazon.)

JOMUNRO

So the sister inlaw wanted some business cards doing for her new pilates studio - i banged out a coupla ideas - these two i liked the best. By the way - pilates changed my life and sorted out my back problems - now i'm even teaching it.

BOY PARKER

iwas a busy guy last year - Boo Cook was asked to do a series of pics to be made into top trump type cards for the excellent tee shirt shop in brighton - BOY PARKER. So i designed the cards and the finished result is great - check out mo' of booswork by following his blog link on here.

(seeing as he actually bothered to "friend" me - looks like i have at least one person who cares - it'snot like this on myspace you know....)

thomas tantrum

So randomly i got asked to do some vector assets for a music vid. The band wanted a "comic" theme and had grand ideas about a giant fifties batman style set appearing behind them as the song goes on. but the pieces were well to heavy when they were made up and the set was just there from the start. check it at - Music video background design for Thomas Tantrumhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaqXbQzSq4