It’s been a while since my last post as I have been working on an exciting pitch. Nonetheless, here is a portrait of one of my good friends caught on camera sometime ago.

NICE ONE!

My crunchy themed illustration was selected as “Pick of the Week” on Illustration Friday. Thank you for all the kind comments left.

Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation. Illustration Friday was created by illustrator Penelope Dullaghan. You can see her own work here http://penelopeillustration.com.

I’m sure we have all played this game in the Autumn when we were kids (and perhaps also as adults). Stamp on the leaves and the loudest crunch is the winner!

This illustration is a combination of pencil drawings and scans of ink prints for textures. The leaves are real, I scanned them after picking them up in my local park. Finished in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

I have a very distant memory of our family having a reel to reel tape recorder when I was young. Of course us children couldn’t go near a machine of such technology. So instead, I had to watch from afar as some responsible adult spent hours unravelling the mess they had made from getting another tape reel caught up in its mechanism. I used a combination scanned sketch and adobe illustrator to complete this illustration.

Starting to feel the chill as the seasons change, so Illustration Friday’s subject this week seemed most appropriate.

Despite all the postal strike problems, my new business cards finally arrived today. Hopefully these should add some colour to meeting clients!

If you want an illustration of yourself, please do contact me.

Following on from my Puma Pile illustration back in July, I also created this gift wrap to accompany it. I am currently experimenting with various stocks with the view of releasing some designs for sale.

Check my next post to see the vector art closer up.

A while ago, I created Puma Pile illustration, a collection of Puma mid-tops piled one upon the other in glorious Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black.

With this weeks Illustration Friday topic being pattern, it was a no-brainer to submit the development of this original illustration into a gift wrap concept. You can see how the wrapping  paper turned out on my previous post.

It’s my birthday in September and I was lucky to receive cards and gifts from my friends and family.  This was just something I sent them to say thanks.

Illustration Friday is a weekly creative outlet/participatory art exhibit for illustrators and artists of all skill levels. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation. This week’s topic is Caution.

You can also Illustration Friday’s blog at http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/

It has always amused me when people fail to notice warnings particuarly in a world surrounded in health & safety bureaucracy. Signs and railings litter our roads & paths, yet people still somehow manage to navigate themselves into situations of peril.  Maybe we should be rid of all the street litter and let natural selection run its course?

I used a combination of hand drawing and Adobe Photoshop to create this image.