Raynard

RAYNARD was the name of the our first family canoe. And in Raynard we paddled noisily along the rivers of Devon and Sussex, amidst the noise we managed to marvel at life on and in the river. 

RAYNARD the comic is dedicated to a good friend of mine who is expecting her first child. Its simply a tale about parenthood and the wonder of childhood.

 

Everlution..

Everlution...

In many ways I think I can stop here...it says it all really.
Life before and after Necrotizing Fasciitis.

I don't want to dwell forever on this theme. I believe in moving on, however, this is a chapter of my life that I want to explore creatively, and now I think I'm ready to.

• It was a terrifying, weird and intriguing experience...and I'd be a crap artist if I ignored it. My aim is to bring colour and beauty to something dark and ugly, not to over-indulge it and keep one foot firmly and optimistically on terra firma - erm...X

Pip, pip....The apple

After an oodley long time I'm finally returning to The Apple. I've been threatening to crack on with it for far too long, however, now I have some time and no excuses.
It's a simple tale of an apple and the people it encounters during it's short and fruitful life, and we're not talking greengrocers. Page one, dawn, spring and buds...

Page One

Page 5 - work in progress

Inky fingers

Lily-Lou

This is Lily-Lou. She's a character that myself and the Wild One, Kirsten Wild, are developing along with several others.

I've drawn and painted her a few times, however, this morning I was overwhelmingly drawn to my original sketch. Everything I've done since that doesn't capture the energy..it's a case of style over content, which sometimes leaves you with a flat imagine.

I thought this might be the right time to open up a leaky pot of ink and do some playing. The aim is to capture the original energy of the first sketch but with a little more control. It's quite jolly getting the dip pen out again, despite being left with inky fingers, and when I say inky I mean inky. I'm thinking this quite heavily influenced by some Delftware we've inherited. Right now Blue is good, but not too much. 

HELLO

HELLO, it's been an awfully long time since I last visited my blog, not for nothing though. Last May I contracted Necrotising Fasciitis, resulting in my loosing my right leg. However, I'm lucky, I'm alive, I have a loving family, fingers that draw and a whole lot of life to hop about in.
There were projects that had to bide their time and new ones bursting into life. I'm working on a terrific little graphic poem for Pighog Press, which will be published this Autumn and a story that won't go away, as well as countless other stories and poems that are bouncing around on my desk. I'm posting a few panels from a comic I was working on before I got ill, 'Euston concourse and beyond', some pics from "How to write your Science Thesis', and a page from a little experimental piece that I've been tinkering with forever. I'm truly back in my shed, we are one and life is good.

How to write your Science Thesis

 

Euston concourse and beyond

Prunella

 

A few months ago I was asked by Women's Weekly to illustrate a five part story called, The Bear Garden, written by Suzanne Ahern. It was something of a Jacobean romp set in Shakespeare's London, and I rubbed my hands in glee at the thought of illustrating it. These are a few of my favorite pics.

Tree Snippets

These are a couple of frames from 2 page entry for the AIC3, 'The Great Tree'. This is a bit of a light departure from some of my recent work, no death, cooking or grime, doh! Forgot about the skulls.
I managed to squeeze a spot of biro and gouache into this one  - always ticks my happy box. http://www.adventuresincomics.org/