Mousegolfier Balloon

Here's a little crop from a Night Post splash.
Postal rats in a balloon! :D

Giraffe!

Here's a pretty poor ipad photo of a pencil commission I did a couple of months ago. Such a cute baby and I rather enjoyed the fact that the parents love Giraffes!

Free Comic Book Day

Today is Free Comic Book Day so I did this little strip :)

Follow the link to find out more about whats going down today!

Please click HERE to see a large version.

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FCBD, Free Comic Book Day, comic, strip, mermaid, siren, drowning,

Porcelain Trailer

Back in February our little comics collective Improper Books published it's first graphic novel Porcelain: A Gothic Fairytale.  This initial indie release soon sold out and we are now set for a July '13 release courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors (which is now available to pre-order with Diamond Code: MAY131178).

In the meantime, here's a lovely book trailer. I still get amazed every time I see it. 
Animation by Mark Kendrick and music by Jonathan Fletcher. 

Them stones, them stones.

Made my Grandad a Get Well Soon painted pebble for when I visit him at the hospital today (tree on the front, message on the back).

Made a few others just for fun.
Coral one is reeaaally very small, but what awesome colour!

Instacolours

Some WIP Night Post colours from my instagram recently :)

Portholes

Chris and I have started swimming. We hadn't been since moving house last summer so it's a new pool for us. Inside, the external walls have a series of staggered, blue-tinted, circular windows high up on the wall. Sort of porthole-inspired I presume.
When I glanced up at them last night one particular window showed a perfect round image. The sky was bright blue from the glass and because it was dusk, the crop of naked branches beyond were silhouetted against the shock of colour. If you know me then you know I love trees, and silhouettes, and specifically silhouettes of trees :)
I immediately wanted to to make some sort of image inspired by it. I have to go do something now which is making me nervous and I find drawing tree silhouettes very relaxing :) so I just quickly made this.

Owl Girl

Couple weeks back Chris showed me this mesmerising music video to Iron by Woodkid (who I had previously never heard of, but they seem pretty cool!) and I instantly wanted to draw every single thing I saw! It's such a beautiful video.



Last night I thought i'd play about with using different coloured digital ink as i've really enjoyed the effects it can create, especially with the ghosts in Night Post. The perfect opportunity to do something from the video! I totally cheated and picked a specific still from the video and used it as a template, inking over the top. Can't wait to do some pencil sketching from this too. I need to make time for just general sketching and learning, I spend all my time trying to move forward with projects and leave no time for just general practice and experimentation and I feel this is really stunting my arty growth. Aaanyway, enough gibbergabber, this is what I ended up with:

illustration, digital, Woodkid, owl, iron,

Wish You Were Here

Hey-ho :)

Last year I made a very lovely couple personalised wedding invites in the form of old seaside postcards.  Such a great idea (theirs, not mine, unfortunately!). There's one for the main invite, one for accommodation and one for the menu, all featuring their adorable family. On the reverse the info is written in a handwriting style, I even created a stamp featuring a red and a white rose, their wedding colours/flowers. 

It was an interesting project as they had a very clear idea of what they wanted to be happening in each image. A fun challenge. 

The invites have all been sent out now, so i'm free to put them up without spoiling any surprises. 

I think she posted them out inside little paper, striped, candy bags :D

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Looking forward to doing the order of service and thank you cards soon too. 

Envelope

Crop of some inks i'm working on right now before bed.