Sketchbook #4






Sketchbook #3






Sketchbook #2






Blue Thunder - preview five

I am still considering the sequence of this particular page, but as it is one of my favourite compositions I thought I would share it. Panels six and eight will be disjointed from the larger image and will show a silhouette of the protagonist looking outside of the train window.

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Blue Thunder - preview four

Page four of new short comic 'Blue Thunder'.

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Blue Thunder - preview three

Page three of new short comic 'Blue Thunder'.

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Blue Thunder - preview two

Page two of new short comic 'Blue Thunder'.

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Blue Thunder - preview one

Page one of new short comic 'Blue Thunder' - developed during a very beneficial comics correspondence course with the hugely talented Frank Santoro. This project is largely complete and I will be posting some finished pages (first four in sequence) – occasionally with dissected pages: ink plates, colour plates, etc.

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Sketchbook #1





Unleashed: The Best in the North

Unleashed: The Best in the North is "a final-year competition open to
undergraduate illustration course students from Northern art schools."
I've been fortunate enough to have been short-listed for 2 separate
works in the top 25, out of 196 entries from 13 art schools.

To see all entries, as well as more information on the auction of the
short-listed works on 14th July (raising money for the North West Air
Ambulance), visit: http://www.chophouseart.co.uk/.

#1: The Outsider
Mixed media (watercolour, gouache, digital) illustration adapted from a passage from Albert Camus' 1942 novel The Outsider (L’Étranger). Features the protagonist Meursault and Marie Cardona enjoying a relaxing afternoon at the swimming pool, escaping the scorching heat of French Algeria. Image size: 234 x 156 mm.


#2: Seascape
Intricate pen and ink rendering of a hazardous seascape. Inspired by Slint's unnerving song Good Morning, Captain – from their 1991 album Spiderland, with reference to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1792 poem,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Image size: 189 x 189 mm.