New Season

It's officially autumn 2008 and I thought it was time to get back into art. Over the last few weeks we bought a new wi-fi scanner/printer and it means I can scan stuff and work on my own machine in another room to where my wife does her work. So all systems go for the new season....just have to start creating.

Illustration Friday: Mask

I was going to draw a mask - the kind you see to represent the theatre. Then I thought about how our faces can be a kind of mask - depending on our mood and circumstance. Lines in our faces are drawn through our experience, our expressions and their frequency of use. I find faces continuously fascinating.

Illustration Friday: Might

This week's topic was hard. I'm not totally happy with the result, due to a last minute rush. Oh well, hope I find more inspiration with tomorrow's topic. The guy above is meant to be Albert Einstein!

Happy Snowman

Donnatello the Snowman, cousin of Frosty the Snowman

Illustration Friday: Invention

Whenever I draw a spaceship, this is the one that most often comes to mind. I used to love those washing up bottle rockets with the sparkler hanging out the back that the 30s and 40s Flash Gordon serials used to use as model spacecraft. I've taken some of that influence and mixed it with a cockpit that sticks out a little like the Millenium Falcon's. This is the rocket I'm using in a story I'm writing with my kids about an inventor called Professor Popplepot.

Illustration Friday: Thanksgiving

It took me a while to get the idea for this believe it or not. I guess because until this week I didn't really know much about thanksgiving. It's not a holiday over here in the UK. This image of a full table of food with a roast turkey in the middle waiting to be eaten is probably a very obvious image but it has only just come to me that this is what I should do. As a child I used to think Thanksgiving was the same as Christmas just in a different country.

Illustration Friday: Clear

I've thought long and hard about the brief this weekend, I came up with a lot of common understandings: water, glass etc. This morning a new interpretation struck me as I was thinking about a friend of mine.