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Lazer Love

This is a piece I've worked on lately. It's in ink and water colours. It's hard getting a bit of weight with watercolours and I think I may have went overkill on the final black outlines. Though I think it's healthy sometimes to sit down at a blank piece of paper knowing you don't have the luxury of 'undo', especially with something like watercolours which needs a considered build up with no going back over your tracks.



Here's a few details from it:





This is a behind the curtains, Wizard of Oz tyle shot, while I was working on it:

Sketchbook 001

Here's a few sketchbook pages from a holiday in Greece in August.

They depict images from Meteora in Northern Greece, studies of passengers and sights on a ferry from Samos to Athens and also sketches from a visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

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...

Animal!

This is a cd mix I created as a birthday present for my brother who works in construction and who channels the spirit of Animal from the Muppets. I designed and created the sleeve to the j-card cd single format.









If you've got Spotify the bulk of the setlist can be found here!

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.