Spineless: The Newcastle Science Comic, created in partnership with Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle. The comic was produced to accompany the Spineless exhibition, all about invertebrates. Each page is a collaboration between comics creators and the exhibition’s guest curators. My…
Asteroid Belter: The Newcastle Science Comic was made for the British Science Festival 2013, hosted by Newcastle University. The 44 page newsprint comic was a collaboration between 76 artists, writers and scientists. As part of the editorial team I managed…
Making a dent in the scanning pile with some pages from a 2014 sketchbook, including a trip to Japan. This sketchbook was A6, landscape and with nice textured paper. This led to a lot of experimenting with watercolours, posca pens…
Making aliens, floating creatures and strange landscapes with Webchemy on my tablet. It’s a fascinating app that allows for messing about with vector chunks, it’s almost like you’re carving the image into the page.
Some interesting pages from my 2013 sketchbooks.
Dr Sketchy 2011. Life drawing and burlesque combined. Quick poses to try and capture body language, shapes, interesting features.
This is a quick digital paint to test out some new brushes. I like the cloudy, floating appearance of the piece.
A wedding portrait commission. I’m specially fond of how the colouring on the cat turned out. I did a few sketches before settling on the final layout. I’m quite fond of this cheerful one with balloons.
This comic was drawn and is sometimes printed on one sheet of A4 paper. Using mysterious magics, it is possible to create an 8 page mini comic from one sheet of A4. That’s what I did.
This comic was made for the Paper Jam Comics Collective Food… and that anthology.
A series of three paper cuts on the theme of burlesque, each featuring a burlesque performer from the North East of England. These pieces are available to buy from my etsy on black mounting board, ready to frame.
Hairy Bear Coffee served hot drinks from a little green van known as Audrey, with a home base at Creative up North. Andy wanted a logo that had tones of soviet constructivist design. The green in the logo was a close match…