Russell Grant's Art of Astrology.

I'll post some of these Images every now and then, I've only just finished the job, a colouring book for grown up's. It took nearly Two months to produce 92 pages of illustrations, thankfully I was able to complete it by the deadline.

Juniper Hotel

A selection of icons to be used for patterns on fabric, stationary, bags etc, for the Juniper Hotel in Cupertino, California.

Graphic design job

Asked to do a rare graphics job for a fine art retailers. A combination of hand lettering and type.

Teenagers.

Here's a pitch for a textbook publishing job, very quickly done but looks fresh to me.

Pitching.

Recent Pitches for a Pharmaceutical company and McDonalds.
I'm doing a lot of pitching nowadays but I suspect I get undercut by cheaper bids as much as anything else. Still - here's a Chicken and some people...

Elephant!

I was privately commissioned to do a young Elephant illustration for a lady who is mad about the subject. It turned out ok.

Ted Baker promotional Illustrations

The Apple Agency asked me to do some illustrations for Ted Baker. They wanted their images to have the feel of Delft tiles. They were done with Watercolours on paper.

Robinsons at Wimbledon.

These were drawn up as props to be printed out large, mounted on (I assume) Polyboard and used in a Robinsons marketing event at Wimbledon. The Client was I.D. Agency in London.

Transport Illustrations.

Here's some recent Illustrations for the Bank of New York, for their Magazine.
Once the sketches were approved I did the final artwork with ink on paper, Watercolour splashes and coloured in Photoshop.

Ancient Greek Cartoons

About 10 years ago I was commissioned to do a series of cartoons about famous ancient Greeks. They are only funny if you know your history though.

My Semi acoustic.

I realised I didn't have enough Black and White linework in my Portfolio. Ironically this drawing turned out to look a bit too Photographic.

Fruit Illustration for Packaging

I wrote this article for KJA Artists, an Illustration agency who represent me.
I'm pleased at how it turned out somewhat, so I thought to post it here.

I've had a long career as an Artist, mostly in Animation, but for most of the past Decade I've been Illustrating in Branding and Packaging, mostly in Beverages. This involved providing assets for the Graphic Designers, Visuals for presentations and Photography for Packaging, Brochures and Publishing.

 Within all that, there was quite a lot of Fruit.

 Dependant on the requirements of the brief, It could go in one of Three ways. For a Graphic look I didn't need a vast amount of reference and the priority would be to marry up the Illustration with the rest of the design so as to negate any one element standing out too much. (Think 'Naked' Smoothies for example).

 For more realistic Illustrations I'd use the interwebs for images and my Illustrations (or Photography) would be in separate elements, not a composition, because I was working for several Designers with their own Ideas about the composition within their own Design. I would usually use coloured Pencils as a starting point and for a more Painterly finish I would smooth out the Pencil in Photoshop.

 For Photography I would have to go shopping and it would involve a great deal of inspection, attracting suspicious looks from the staff as I attempt to find the most Photogenic examples. My employers didn't feel it necessary to provide me with the equipment you would assume would be needed such as lights, a Macro Camera, basic stuff I know! I used my own Bridge Camera, a Fuji Finepix, nothing special there then, and I had to use my imagination to get the results needed. This would mean shooting outside at certain times of day, sometimes even using direct Sunlight to capture the glitter of juice on cut Fruit, especially for dryish fruit like Apples where I'd resort to spraying a mist of Water to exaggerate the shine. In fact, the more exaggerated I could make the subject, the less retouching I'd have to do, even though I had an enormous amount of retouching anyway, sometimes to the point of working over every Pixel, especially for soft Fruits like Strawberries and the Cells of Citrus Fruit.

Drinkworks Website

A pen and Ink Illustration for the Drinkworks Branding and Packaging Agency. It's on the landing page.

It's quite Retro.

Way back when - an Air Stewardess

I was asked to do this but I have no idea how and when It was used - It was a long time ago.

Null Comma Joseph.

A Simple Graphic Illustration for an Austrian no - Alcohol Beer.
It's very retro but nice.

Blue Pencil prep sketch

This sketch was done very quickly, it was for a Bitters label, St Hubertus.

An old Pitch for Passion Pictures.

Back in 2004 I was asked to do a series of designs for a BBC trail for the general election in the style of Ronald Searle.
This one shows Jeremy Paxman as Atlas. It was good fun.

Modern but Retro?

It was done for a pitch and I don't think it worked, I'm not that mad about the content either but it has a certain something, maybe it's the Colours that make it.