Experiments in Texture 01

Cover sketches

Here's some cover sketches for my latest book, which is nearing completion....

Lord of the Flies

Here's a recent illustration for Lord of the Flies. Slightly different technique used here, incorporating some methods I used to use at college (dark tree like texture applied to whole image, then erased in a scribbly fashion with v small eraser brush).

Some recent work...

Digital Scraper-board

I've never used scraper-board before but was inspired to do so after browsing Jim Bradshaw's (fellow SFG-er and excellent illustrator) new site and blog. He mentioned using Painter's scraper-board tool and I realised I never had, here's what I came up with:



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Recent work...

Here's what I've been working on recently...






Illustrations for an educational anthology by Harcourt, these are for a Kiowa folk tale about how the sun came to be in the sky. I'm really pleased with how they turned out, and I finished them a week ahead of schedule.

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Jesus Storybook Bible illustrations - Part V

This is the last of them, although it's only a small selection of the 180 illustrations I produced over 9 months for this 352 pg book.

Jesus Storybook Bible illustrations - Part IV