The cockroach and the bride.

Backtracking a bit, heres the best galley prints from my summer project, "The Cockroach and the bride" tells the story of a neurotic jilted bride blinded by humiliation and determined to love something, anything! and the poor unsuspecting bug she happens to choose. I like the gritty, distressed look, and scratchy outlining, tying in with the characters exhausting mental state , and the insects distorted vision...

Ballerina Fever.

Just before Christmas, us LCC year 2 Illustration folk had a sneak preview of the English National Ballet's latest show; Swan Lake. Have a peek at our studies here...

Experimenting with unusual surfaces; overlaying my figures onto scenes of mundanity,other people, conflicting orientation etc, seemed to create tension and atmosphere. Ghost like nostalgia? Graceful leaps and twirls across tragic day to day life.

LADIES

A few shoddy scans of some designs i'll feature on christmas cards at the fair tmw.

" Have a fashion filled Christmas "...

Chung.

Moss.

Westwood.

THIS SATURDAY!

Like Illustration ? Like Christmas? Wanna take the piss out of me in a panto costume? Come to this in Chelsea Town Hall, 4/12/2010...

I'll have some cards,bookmarks,and other bits and pieces for sale on the "New Creatives" stall, Just follow the bunting! 

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90's Killers.

Just found out about Marlene McCarty's disturbing huuuuuge portraits. I love how a pencil and biro sketch can be elevated from looking like an unintimidating teenage schoolbook doodle, to menancing characters and scenes your eyes cant avoid, looking down on you from up high, and forcing the issue of bullying and death into your conscious. 

Check out more at  VICELAND

Skull stencil...

After a late night paper stencil session why do i always prefer the leftover scraps and test sheets like the one below, to the actual finished work! J.W.Skull?

Beak...

Its been AGES since i updated this thing! Juggling too many late nights at the Roxy and L.C.C deadlines has taken its toll. But never fear! Fearne Cotton and her crew of unneccesary airtime hoggers are here...

(TOP 100 INFLUENTIAL BRITISH FEMALES PROJECT)

Top Trumps.

Top Trumps inspired playing cards/postcards featuring women who featured in this years 'TOP 100 INFLUENTIAL BRITISH WOMEN' charts. Experimenting with watercolour and an expose' tone, mocking what they're each really infamous for....

Mrs Burton.

Behold Helena Bonham Carter, the glorifed bag lady...

(Pencil,acrylic, fag ends and dirt.)

Knox

I wish i'd seen this whilst on Foundation last year, it makes my photos of local drizzly lanes and rubbish heaps look pathetic! Detroits not just a grubby name thrown around in a few Dre songs, Check out this Johnny Knoxville (Mmmmm Knoxville <3) and Palladium boots collaboration for VICE, exploring the abandoned derelict streets as a blank canvas for Art.