Too Busy Thinking About My Comics - guest post

Colin Smith, curator of Too Busy Thinking About My Comics blog was kind enough to ask me to do a post highlighting my work. It comes along with a rambling essay covering life, music, comics and drawing. TBTAMC has kicked back in to life recently after being dormant for a year or two and has a really rich collaborative aspect this time around, with guest posts, interviews etc.

Uproar Comics - Artist Profile

I've recently done a few pages for 'Zombies Hi!' comic, published by Derry-based Uproar Comics. They'll appear in the next issue, number 6.

Uproar have got a wee profile of me and a few of my work samples over at their blog:

http://www.uproarcomics.co.uk/blog/?p=152

Check them out and give them a bit of support!

Big Ten Bob Blow-Out

Over at my Etsy shop I'm selling a number of original one-off pieces including ink, watercolour and acrylic work for the crazy price of £10 each (this does not include additional postage costs, that would be crazy).

Below are a number of images:

I'm only posting to UK and Ireland, expect 10-14 days for delivery.

No Time For Tears

Below is a book cover I've recently worked on for young adults. It's got action/suspense elements to it so I've attempted to give it a film poster look and feel.





Here's the original hand-drawn ink scan...

The Corncrakes - EP designs

The Corncrakes are a folk/indie outfit from Belfast. Their Myspace page can be found here.

As I'm a friend of Helen Mahaffy (vocals/flute) in the band I've done a lot of design/illustration work for them, including the initial logo design and all elements of cd design and illustration for their two EP releases. Their latest EP is 'Lady Dixon's', here's the front cover illustration followed by the interior corncrake illustration.





Here's a shot of the finalised CD...



Also, here's the first EP I worked on over a year ago, 'Willow Tree'...

Country Girl

This is a recent book cover design I've done. I've tried to get that stylised/trashy montage look prevalent on 60s/70s paperbacks. Also, wanted to keep the colour palette muted and autumnal to fit in with the rural setting.



Below is the original pencil work of the main figure.

Music Video Storyboards - 'The Airloom'

Last year I created storyboards for a music video called 'The Airloom' by Brighton-based artist High Rankin. Below is the final video with storyboards synched alongside:



Below is a sequence which didn't make it into the final video:

First Blog Entry!

This is my first blog entry! Just want to use this blog to throw on bits and pieces and work in progress. Also, to highlight influences and general things i love.

Below are interior illustrations I've recently done for a kids book called The Magic Cornflake.

Had fun seeing how far I could go with the elongated limbs.