Quite Honestly

Here's some of the ideas I had for a book cover of John Mortimers' Quite Honestly . It's a farce/crime-romance sort of thing, fun and frothy. I liked them both so combined them into the final cover below. Wanted to show the topsy-turvy nature of the characters relationship in the book, and the opposite places and situations they end up in. I can't say anymore without spoiling it! :-)

I love Books

Hello, here is a new piece, and a reworked older one! i have decided to try and Illustrate the cover for every book I read from now on, so here is the first one: 'The Uninvited' by Geling Yan. Wish me luck! I also turned an older piece into a proper cover- the amazing ' The Lost World' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Read it now!
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p.s if you have any books to recommend to me, leave me a comment!

Aoi Thames competition

Here is my entry for the aoi and london transport museum competition to design a poster celebrating the thames. Mine's called 'System Map' and it's about the Thames as the lifeblood of London, and all the life that pops up on its banks. I was thinking about the human circulation system and the tube map when I did it. I'm happy to say it's one of 50 that have been selected to exhibit at the London Transport Museum. Hurrah! The exhibition opens in May 2011.

Ghost Record

A new illustration for a Swedish magazine article about how hard it is to throw things away, and the emotional attachment we have to our stuff.

The Canterbury Tales

I'm part of an Illustration collective, and one of our recent challenges was to design a new book cover for Chaucers' Canterbury tales, and here's mine. I enjoyed having a go at some pen and ink drawings, not done those for a while! My idea was to show the different characters and elements of thier stories, but keep it all looking like it belonged as part of a set. Sort of like how all the various pilgrims are travelling together in a big mis-matched group. I wanted it to look old but not grimy. If you've not read them, give them a go. The stories are really old, but full of lively characters bickering and telling tall tales.

some new things

Hello
Here is some sneaky peaks of what I've been working on recently, I can't show the whole things yet. Sorry!
My Shakespeare illustration has been entered for this month's Flair competition, see it here.
More to come soon, thanks for reading!

Books of all kinds

Some more new things, a piece for an article about the release of some classic texts as ebooks, and a personal project; a pretend book cover for the (fictional) novel of the film 'Clash of the Titans'; by my fictional publishers Three Arrow Press. The Harryhausen original film is great, loads better than the new film! (Apart from the stupid golden owl). Check it out.