Music + Art = Love

This Music as Product brief is gonna kick so much tooshie (I’m trying to be more professional by not swearing in my blogs… let’s see how long it’ll last…)!

Seriously, I’m very excited; I’ve already unconsciously been preparing for it, as I’ve been aiming to design an album cover for Taste the Blood for a while now. But also because I have so much free reign to be myself, discover new art and get really creative in the process.

The project is simple: create a vinyl cover for a band album, whether real or fake. Make the album cover as interesting as possible, with added gifts and collectables, whilst also making sure the product can be batch produced five times or more. That works out great for me, as I’ll then have one copy for myself, and one each for the members of Taste the Blood.

I love a good album, but I love an album even more when there’s something super special about it. These are the ones I usually go out and buy. For example, every Gorillaz album and, my most recent purchase, Paramore’s Brand New Eyes Deluxe Edition, which I picked up for a cool £34.99. These are both great examples of well packaged music for the major fans. The Gorillaz D-sides album included pin badges, stickers, a sew-on fabric badge, and sketches by Jamie Hewlett, whilst Brand New Eyes had a DVD, a 7” vinyl with acoustic versions of two songs, Hayley Williams' journal, a double-sided poster and photo-cards, not to mention a certificate of authenticity.


It’s amazing what more they can do with music, and there’s nothing better than opening a brand new album, especially if it includes loads of freebies.

So I will be working with Taste the Blood, a Wrexham-based Metal Band in which my boyfriend plays bass, to produce something they can be proud of. They very kindly gave me a list of things that influence and inspire their music and their look, which threw up some very interesting concepts: German expressionist cinema, Bauhaus, cubism, Hammer Horror, 1950’s pop art and B-Movies were but a few of them.



When I mentioned their influences to Dan Berry, he pointed me in the direction of Charles Burns and told me to have a look at Black Hole, a comic about mutated teenagers. I've seen some of the pages online, but what really intrigued me about the story was that a photographer called Max Oppenheim has taken stills of some of the comic's mutated characters and used prosthetics to turn them into realistic, horrific year book photos. It's really disturbing, but ultimately brilliant, and works for an idea my boyfriend had of doing each of the band members as famous monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc). Will have to look into this more, but you can check out the rest of those creepy photos here.



I love the idea of exploring old-school horror cinema and advertising. It gives me the chance to steer away from the typical Metal album cover ideas, which usually feature big hairy guys who look like they’re going to murder you. I’ve been looking into album cover design for a while now and I’ve come across some great, and sometimes controversial, pieces of work.

The Scorpions – Virgin Killer: Do I even need to mention why this is one of the most controversial album covers of all time? And yet it does what the title says. I think the glass effect is fantastic, but I’d be much more careful working with kids like this.


Iron Maiden – Killers: Iron Maiden are known for their awesome album covers, featuring their mascot, Eddie. This album cover is my personal favourite, drawn by Derek Riggs. I love the grungy cityscape, the bright, morbid colouring and Eddie’s cheerfully psychotic smile. Classic.


The Used – In Love and Death: The album artwork here is done by Alex Pardee. I love how simplistic his use of line and colour is. It’s creepy and yet still whimsical. Very Tim Burton.


Gorillaz – Plastic Beach: I couldn’t go on about album covers without throwing them in somewhere. The album cover for their latest album is the most extensive in terms of artwork, and also the most colourful.


I have, of course, more influences than this but I’m trying to save space!

So, not only do I have to do an amazing album cover, I also have to create some collectables to go with it. My initial ideas were your typical album collectables: stickers, badges, posters, etc. But I’ve also come up with the humorous idea of creating some comic trump cards of each of the band members. I think they’d find it quite funny, they all have a good sense of humour.



Also, I will be aiming to make a small single cover for a CD as well as a DVD cover for them to use when they eventually distribute them.

But for now, I’m going to experiment and play about a bit!

And if that wasn’t enough, I have managed to manipulate the Negotiated brief to suit me as well! It’s a self-written brief that interprets Liverpool in some way. I am going to create an audio-plus-map tour of Liverpool, using only the music of The Beatles. Dan suggested I call it The Musical Mystery Tour, which I really liked.

So the full title is: The Beatles' Musical Mystery Tour of Liverpool!

I’m off to the great city tonight for my usual helping of Liverpool One (to see Iron Man 2), Worlds Apart, Quiggins and the Tea House Cafe for my Udon Noodle soup with pork dumplings. But more importantly, for research, to snuff out the most notable, inspiring and fun locations for my musical map idea. I’ll be taking my dictaphone to record any thoughts I have along the way, and a camera to snap some photos.

My plan is to create a quirky mini-map of Liverpool that corresponds to a compilation of Beatles tracks that I will put together on a CD and my iPod. Obviously because of copyright issues I may not be able to stream the track listing online, but I will post it in a blog, along with my downloadable map in case anyone wants to give the tour a go.

Dan Berry showed me a funky piece of work by a student last year who created a pocket book of band names, which folded out like a map and was screen printed onto newsprint. I thought it looked great and it was really simply put together, so I’m going to use it as my main inspiration for the finished piece, but with major changes. I like the idea of screen printing the map, it’s a quick and re-usable process. However, I wouldn’t do it on newsprint as it could tear easily. What I’m thinking is perhaps doing an A3/A2 map that will either be laminated for protection, or can be packaged with the CD in something fancy.

But first, it’s super-research-weekend-fun-time!

Comic Review: The P.L.A.I.N Janes

I picked this up off the classroom shelf the other day, annoyed for two reasons; firstly, because my tutors hadn’t shown up; and secondly, because I was planning to write a comic in my third year called “Plain Jayne”, about my life. Just goes to show how original I am.

As always, watch out for spoilers.

Written by Cecil Castellucci, with artwork by Jim Rugg, The P.L.A.I.N Janes follows, you guessed it, Jane, a girl who has just survived a terrorist attack in her home city. The attack disrupts her life, turning her from a fashionable blonde city girl, into an emotional art-freak with a bob of black hair. Her paranoid parents move from the city to the cosy, but ultimately boring, suburbs.

On her first day of school Jane is invited to join the popular girl’s table, but rejects them in favour of a bunch of misfits who ironically are called Jane, Jayne and Polly Jane. This was the first thing to irk me. I know this can happen in real life (I once knew four Emmas in the same class) but I found it so predictable. The term Plain Jane can refer to any girl of limited presence. I found it a bit lazy to name them all Jane.

“Main Jane”, the protagonist, is your typical I-feel-everything art student, almost emo-like. She has a few redeemable qualities, but as a whole character I found that I couldn’t connect with her constant moping. Perhaps because I’ve never been in a terrorist attack.

Then we have the other three Janes. Theatre Jane is an overly dramatic, over-weight Shakespeare-spewing stereotype in a scarf. Brain Jane is a big nerd. And Sporty Jane is an athletic chick with a monobrow. What we have here is the Disney Channel show, Recess. Main Jane is a combination of TJ and Spinelli, whilst her comrades resemble Mikey, Gretchen and Vince.


Now I’m all for minor clichés and stereotypes, but I like to see something original in a character. For this reason, I could not connect with any of the main characters, because they were all very hollow. I found that by the end of the story, I couldn’t care less about them.

Now the story, it had some promise. Main Jane, trying to rebuild herself as an artist, tries to inspire her neighbourhood to be creative by performing art attacks with her friends under the guise P.L.A.I.N: People Loving Art In Neighbourhoods.


The idea is cute, and a good way to inspire the town. However, it doesn’t appear to work. Apart from inspiring some of her fellow high school students to sing randomly in class, she never comes close to helping her overprotective mother to relax her rules, or the town’s adults ease up and see her projects as art and not graffiti. There seems to be no resolve to the story, and no sense to the random acts of creativity that P.L.A.I.N produce, which is a shame because they had some great ideas, such as filling the town fountain with washing up liquid, and planting hundreds of garden knomes outside of the police station in protest.

Their final act ends in disaster, and leaves the book’s love interest facing expulsion, and yet none of the Janes do the honourable thing, which would be to come clean and confess. Instead they all carry on with their increasingly dull lives, and this left me both wishing for more, and yet not wanting to read it.

The artwork however is remarkable. It’s a style reminiscent of Daniel Clowes (see below). However, where The P.L.A.I.N Janes fails is that it pretty much tries to be Ghost World, with the loser characters and anti-climatic ending, but it never reaches the same brilliance because it is aimed at a totally different audience. Ghost World is aimed at those who’ve seen all, done all, lived through it and accept that life does, quite eventually, suck. The P.L.A.I.N Janes tries the same route, but aims it at younger teenagers, still in high school, who don’t want to know that life is hard yet.


This is why I believe the book failed to grasp me. It tries to be too smart and too original before it’s time. I understand there is a sequel called Janes in Love, but I don’t feel compelled to go out and read it.

I’d recommend this to you for the interesting creativity ideas put forward. I particularly like Main Jane’s motto: “Art Saves”. But story-wise it’s completely forgettable. Unless perhaps you’re a fourteen-year-old emo girl.

Dan’s Reel Reviews (no, it’s not a spelling error)

I love my boyfriend enough to encourage him on his sometimes strange ideas, and not to bullshit him if I think he’s full of hot air. But when he came to me spouting notions of his own radio show (in due time) I did think it was a brilliant idea.

In advance Daniel, I know you won’t mind me telling your life story, but I’ll warn you about it anyway.

Dan left Glyndwr University a few years ago with a well-earned degree in Film Making. However, there were no films to be made, and no job for him. So since then he has been puttering around, waiting for something to happen, and apart from a few undeveloped film ideas (Queers of War being my favourite) he has done nothing to further his dream of becoming a film maker.

Until now.

I approached his radio show with the same enthusiasm as his other ideas, but I really think this one has a lot of potential. Dan has a natural performing spirit about him, always the centre of attention. If he’d tried it, he probably could have gotten into acting.

His podcast, named Dan’s Reel Reviews, allows him to do what he loves, which is watch loads of films, then pick them apart like any good critic. Although there are times when we do not always agree on what makes a good film, I do admire his reasoning, and he has a great radio voice.

This week marks the second week of his podcast, which you can listen to here. He reviews a recent cinema release (which is great because I get to go see more films), a recent DVD release and a “Hidden Gem”, which is a genre movie suggested by his listeners every week.

The upcoming show will feature a review of Date Night, Avatar and As Good As It Gets.

I am very proud of him, and will be standing by, making sure he does it each week and doesn’t let it fall into disrepair. However, I am also his biggest critic and am constantly giving him tips on how to improve. So no, I’m not biased.

Well… except he did let me do the logo for his group on facebook…


You may call this blog shoddy advertising, but I’m not being paid. However, he’ll probably treat me to the cinema this weekend!

Hell I may as well throw in a last bit of self-advertisement! Here is the link to my own facebook group about my freelance work, on which you can contact me about commissions:

Jemima Lee – Freelance Artist

Shameless, I know!!

I love getting nice Emails

Some of you may have caught my latest review on With a Face Like Mine. I went to see The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde some time ago, and was so impressed I felt compelled to write to the company and tell them of my enjoyment. I also popped a link to my review into the email, not expecting them to read it, but giving them the chance.

So imagine my surprise when I received an email back from the company, thanking me for my review and faith in their production team.

“Dear Jemima

Thank you so much for your lovely message, kind comments and brilliant review! I will pass these on to the actors and director who will all be very pleased. Wish we could have performed more than one night too but the theatre is new and they are still trying to build up a regular audience. Thanks for trying to spread the word and listing the tour dates. Jekyll & Hyde is a show we’ve worked very hard on and as we have a limited budget and necessity is the mother of invention. Fortunately, we have a team of great actors (3 of whom were also in Dorian Gray) who have embraced our pub concept and run with it. We hope to come back to Glyndwr Uni soon and look forward to seeing you there!

All the best

John O’Connor
European Arts Company Ltd."

It’s great when people write back to you, even just to acknowledge one fan. Which is why I always try to leave a response when a fan of my work leaves me a message. It’s just plain polite.

Wrexham in Bloom - Week Twelve

“Today we were given yet another project. I believe this culmination of projects and commissions is going to destroy me.” Me, three months ago.

Everyone has completed the Wrexham in Bloom brief. EVERYONE!

And I’m stuck on my own, a loser, like last year’s Critical Studies group project, for which I had no stinking group.

I thought I was doing so well this year. I have many of the projects started, unfinished, but started… but this Wrexham in Bloom brief? It’s just unnecessary hassle.

I’m on a comics course for crying out loud. We did two comics at the beginning of the year, and I really got into them, and now we’re stuck doing posters and packaging. If I wanted to do stuff like this I would’ve gone on the graphics course. But I’ve already done a graphics course in college and I didn’t enjoy it.

So anyway, where am I?

The deadline is passed and I have nothing. My theory is to just submit something, anything, for the assessments. Plus I have this blog I suppose. But seriously, this is the one brief that is really bringing me down because despite stacks of research I have no interest in it. It’s leaflets, posters, packaging about bees and batteries. It’s boring.

I mean I could make it fun, but all the fun has gone out of me this year. I’m fed up of doing posters about toys and cycling. It’s tedious.

I knew in the first year that Graphic Novels is not the right direction for me. I mean I’d like to publish one someday, but it’s a long hard process and I’m impatient. Instead I am now dedicating myself to working with Tattoos, designing them for people, as a Tattooist must work with their client in much the same way a graphic designer must work with his/hers. And with Tattoo designs, and all other client-related work I have never had a problem, because they trust me to deliver.

I didn’t come on this course to learn how to work for people. I KNOW how to work for people. BBC Wales just paid me an impressive wage for some illustrations for their Mabinogi website, and I’ve been working with them successfully for months, I KNOW how to work for a client. And when I asked if that commission could replace this darn thing I was told no. I still need to know how to work for the council.

So now, I have nothing. I will do the poster, but I am leaving this module to the Gods, because it is my lowest priority. I’ve already missed the deadline, I don’t see the point in missing the deadline for my other more interesting projects, ie: Music as Product, which I am working myself silly for because it means I can get some snazzy album artwork done for my boyfriend’s Metal band, Taste the Blood.

Now that’s more like it.

Theatre Review: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

I came across this in the “What’s on at Glyndwr” leaflet. You see, from time to time I do like to see a live show, whether it’s a play or a local band. I find it much more intimate to watch something live rather than on film, or hearing music in its purest form rather than listening to iTunes.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to the theatre. I last saw a production of The Golden Pathway Annual performed by Theatre Train’s talented youngsters, in which my friend played a lead role. Similar to The Golden Pathway Annual, Jekyll and Hyde utilizes the idea of limited props for the actors. Although the production was small and minimal, I nevertheless had confidence in the show. When there are fewer props and actors, and more scenes and roles to fill, the actor’s abilities and the audience’s imagination are called into play more, and therefore a great performance is far more apparent.

Well, I have to say I really wasn’t disappointed. If anything, I was overwhelmed. The show was fantastic, excellently executed and thoroughly thrilling, as well as surprisingly hilarious! I wasn’t aware that it was a comedy, as well as a drama, but I really haven’t laughed that hard at a film or television show in a long time!

I’m sure many of you know the story of Jekyll and Hyde; a doctor in 1800’s London creates a potion that changes him from a whimpering cowardly man into a confidence, albeit misanthropic monster, who maims and murders. The story was written by Robert Louis Stevenson, and published in 1886. Ironically, the Jack the Ripper murders happened not long after and Stevenson was accused of inspiring the serial killer.

The European Arts Company - who previously portrayed The Picture of Dorian Gray, which I am so upset I didn’t get to see - performed this production in a series of shows around the country. You can find the tour dates here.

With only four actors filling multiple roles, and using only props that would be found in your local pub (barrels, a bar, curtains, a piano…) the director, Jonathan Kemp, really had his work cut out for him. Thankfully the whole team delivered.

Set in a pub in the late 1800’s, just after the first stage production of Jekyll and Hyde, actor Richard Mansfield weaves a tale of drama and intrigue to the locals. Well, rather than weave, the whole bar ensemble act it out, changing each scene as they go along, moving the set about and working it into the script as part of the show. Surprisingly, this is not off-putting in the least, as all the actors manage to stay in character and converse as they are doing so. And the transformations are excellent; with barely anything to work with they create a laboratory, a casino, a train, a Scottish highland mansion. Even a shady street corner for the “ladies of the night.”

I cannot ruin the story for you but rest assured it is both new and exciting, no matter how many times you have heard the original. With added humor and women (apparently there were no females in the book), it will keep you on the edge of your seat for its 1 hour and 50 minutes running time.

The four actors were terrific, in particular William Hartley as both Jekyll and Hyde. Your eyes never leave him when he is on stage, and his portrayal of Jekyll as a meek, Scottish heir was so convincing I thought that was actually the way he talked. So when he transformed into the suave, charismatic, but ultimately psychotic Hyde, I was shocked!

Jennifer Bryden was very impressive as the only actress on stage, able to fill any role, from Jekyll’s sweet, Scottish sister, to a cockney prostitute. I find that not many actresses have the ability to be funny, but she had as much, if not more, comedic talent as the male cast, and I felt she shone greatly as Catriona, a strong female in Victorian London.

Richard Latham played multiple roles, and was hilarious in every one of them. As the bumbling, stuttering Utterson, to Jekyll’s brash, kilted father, to my personal favourite, a young boy standing on a train platform yelling about newspapers. He is clearly incredibly gifted.

And finally, Arthur James as Catriona’s pompous, upper-class fiancé Lanyon, as well as the giggle-inducing butler Poole, and his Scottish counterpart, MacPoole. The programme states that he is a late bloomer as an actor, formerly a Captain in the British Army. You really wouldn’t know it, as he flows brilliantly from one role into the next.

I really cannot say a bad thing about The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Even when the scenery was moved and an extra step “appeared”, causing one of the actors to trip, the improvisation that followed had the audience in stitches and allowed the actors to successfully continue the show.

One thing I will say was my occasional annoyance at the woman sitting behind me who seemed to think she was watching Jerry Springer, and would “ooh!” and gasp loudly at every new event. I later found it quite funny.

My only disappointment is in the fact that it was only playing for one night, as I would like many of my friends and family to have seen it. Simply a brilliant show. I’ll certainly be trying my best in future to get out to the theatre more often, and I will be looking out for the European Arts Company’s next production.

Assessment Harassment should be a Criminal Offence

So I’ve just gotten back to Uni after the Easter holidays (ours are three weeks long, however we spend much of it drunk off our student faces) and lo and behold, I’ve hurt myself again.

Apparently we were given three new briefs before Easter to work on. Now, I’m not gonna defend myself but when I’m off ill and I ask two people if we’ve had any new briefs, and they say no, I’m entitled to believe them and not worry about it. Which is what I did, hence why I never knew about the stupid briefs!

Shame though because they sound pretty interesting. Unfortunately, I’m still catching up on the work from last semester! My finger is lodged firmly up my pooper and it just won’t come out (sorry about the image…)

But honestly, I think prioritizing the BBC project before my Uni work was the worst thing I could possibly do. I mean sure I made a lot of money, but I’m risking another referral, or worse: getting kicked out! Daddy would love that.

When will I learn? Seriously, I’m asking you!

Anyway I took some advice and started making an assessment checklist. We usually get it about a fortnight before the assessments but I needed one now. Here’s how I’ve got it all figured out:

Jem’s Assessment Checklist

Semester 1 Briefs

1. Narrative
2. Stranger than Fiction
3. Journal Article
4. Documentary

Semester 2 Briefs

5. Bookjacket
• 3D
• Digital
• Traditional
• Printmaking
6. Toys
7. Cycling in London
8. Wrexham in Bloom

Semester 3 Briefs

9. Music as Product
10. Negotiated
11. Dissertation Proposal

PDP

12. Blogs (Artist’s Journal, With A Face Like Mine, Pins and Needles)
13. Mabinogi
14. Research Folder
15. Personal Sketchbooks
16. Tattoos

To be perfectly honest it doesn’t look as bad if I ignore the PDP section, for which there are no rules. I think my PDP is ok. The Mabinogi will certainly snazz it up a bit (note to self: print off Mabinogi pics on posh paper).

The Narrative brief is practically done, I just need to experiment with it a bit, change some panels, have some fun. The Stranger than Fiction comic needs redoing, but that’ll take me less than a day, plus some experiments for that. As for the Journal Article and Documentary, those are both in the bag already (got a B and an A+ for those, go fig).

Eh… onto semester 2. The Bookjacket brief is barely off the ground. I have the basic final idea, but not enough development. Also, I gotta finish my 3D pieces – an entire cast of my arm painted with Spider tattoos, a latex spider and my resin-dipped Tarantula Mandy, God rest her tiny soul. That should be fun. Also gotta mock-up something for the digital workshop, but that will literally take a me a few hours, since I’m now a whizz at Photoshop (Hey, my eyes are bleeding). Haven’t had the trad. or print workshops yet, so I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Toys brief is pretty much done once I paint and photograph the final piece (note to self: speak to that photography tutor guy).

Wrexham in Bloom and Cycling in London = Death. Here I am stuck because I’m drawing blanks for both. Not literally, because then at least I would be doing something! The Wrexham in Bloom brief is (hopefully) gonna wind up being a ‘60’s Flower Power style poster, and the Cycling in London one will include some kind of pin-up girl (SEX SELLS)! I’m pretty sure I’ve missed the deadline for both of them but I suppose as long as I present the work at the assessments I’ll get some kind of mark.

As for the latest briefs, I have to do the Negotiated brief for this Friday. Thank God it’s only research and writing; the dissertation one wont take me long, as I’ve been writing down my dissertation ideas for months; and finally, the Music as Product one I am looking forward to, as it fits perfectly with my self-made Taste the Blood album cover, which I’ve been planning for ages. Plus I can get some kick-ass merchandise made for them to hand out at their gigs, hence helping me on my way to become the next great album cover designer (and tattooist, and comic artist, and graphic designer, and writer, and biker…) after Alex Pardee and that guy who draws Eddie for Iron Maiden. Derek Riggs. Who, by the way, is the topic of this week’s Quote of the Week:

“Riggs admitted to Metal Hammer magazine that he was self-taught in his art. He also stated that he had attended art school, but that he was expelled, as they "didn't know much about illustration anyway". Describing art schools in general, Riggs told Metal Hammer that they are "geared towards churning out people to fit into artistic pigeonholes".” Cheers Wikipedia.

Brilliant.

So all in all… I can hopefully pass. How is everyone else doing with their work?

The lesson here kids is: Don’t wish to be like me when you grow up.

Summer Reading List

My goal this summer is to catch up on my reading and get through ALL of these books I've bought but either haven't finished reading, or have never read at all. I've started reading Understanding Comics three times now, but I never make it to the end. Not because it's boring, but because I have no spare time to read.

But all that's gonna change. Behold the infinite list! (To be continued...)




















Goes on forever, doesn't it? And I have more to add! :S

How To Train Your Art Student...

... let them have fun once in a while.

This is, I suppose, the first piece of proper fun art I've done in a loooooong time (proper = spending hours doing so).

And it shows.

Countless mistakes make it not the ideal debut piece, but I'm just so bored doing Uni work and BBC stuff all the time.

I painted Toothless from the movie How To Train Your Dragon for my boyfriend Dan, who loves Chris Sanders (the director) and thought Toothless was adorable. Cute movie, go see it.

Overwhelmingly Universal Fear

I can’t be the only person in Glyndwr struggling, but God I feel like it. I have no choice but to just try and get on with it.

I don’t want to fail this year like I did last year, and heck, I know I’ve done way more work than last year and my Crit. Studies work was really good. I mean if I just scrape a Pass at least I’ll get to finish my degree. But I don’t WANT to scrape by, I want my 2.2 or 2.1.

I suppose the reasons I’m struggling this year is down to two things: firstly, the BBC project. That drained me completely and took all of my motivation and focus from my coursework. However, I’ll forever be grateful to the BBC for that amazing opportunity, and for helping me towards my trip to America. Incidentally, I’m still working on two more pieces for them.

Secondly, and this is a stupid one, but I guess being in a relationship has stunted me a little. Being my first serious relationship, I find that I just wanted to spend all my free time with my Dan, and when I procrastinate I have someone to run and whine to, whereas last year I was very lonely and would just get depressed.

Well we’ve been together a year now and, although we’re still very happy, we both feel it’s necessary to spend some time apart, so I can get my finger out and do some work at last. If I estimate it right I’d say I’ve seen Dan about 350 days out of this last year.

The worst part is I no longer have a mobile phone, so I feel cut off from the world if my laptop isn’t on. And now the weather’s perfect I should be outside, but I’m stuck in doors.

In half an hour I have a driving lesson, then afterwards it’s (metaphorical) Clobberin’ time.

To Do List:

The Mabinogi – two final illustrations to go with the Cube Interactive online games.
Bookjacket Brief – Finalish designs, and all extended workshop pieces.
Toys Brief – Final piece on canvas and photographed.
Wrexham in Bloom – concepts and final poster design.
Cycling in London brief – concepts and final poster design.
Narrative – experiments.
Stranger than Fiction – finished comic, then experiments.

COMMISSIONS COME LATER!

Quote of the Week:

“You’re both Human. Give yourselves a break.” Carla, from Scrubs. So I’m gonna take her advice, stop beating myself up and just work my arse off.