The Outsider

I recently entered the Folio Society/House of Illustration competition based on the book 'The Outsider.' As the book's fairly strange and off kilter I wanted to give that kind of feeling in my illustrations. In REVERSe order (because apparently thats what blogger wants me to do) here are the images:

And the cover

I'm a big fan of both the House of Illustration and the Folio Society, so hopefully they'll be running more competitions together in the future.

2011 update

Hello!

I've been doing lots of competition stuff which will post eventually, but here are some odds and ends! These are some childrens book type things:

and a picture i rejected for my entry to the Folio Society 'Outsider' competition:

{i didn't reject this because i didn't like it, it just had to be one of three and didn't match the others}

and a VERY ROUGH ROUGH for the cover which i decided against:

Oh Comely

I have an illustration in the current edition of Oh Comely Magazine! 'Oh comely' is a very lovely magazine, full of interesting articles and art and people. Here is my illustration for the theme of 'Found':

It was a very quick turnaround so it's by no means perfect, but i'm fairly happy with it. If you want to see it in all it's glory with a bit of writing by me you can pick it up in WHSmiths! (I KNOW, exciting, yes?)

Book spreads

SO finally an update with some book spreads! Sadly i haven't finished the whole book in time for my project hand in, so it looks like I'll be finishing it over summer. I'm about..70% happy with what i've got so far so here are a few of the opening pages:

There will be more soon, and hopefully lots of exciting other stuff too!