(fairly) new work!

Some more shanty related stuff - this is from Fiddler's Green which is not technically a shanty but is pretty good and sea related, so counts in my book.

"Where the skies are all clear and there's never a gail

And the fish jump on board with one swish on their tail

Where you lie at your leisure, there's no work to do

And the skipper's below making tea for the crew"

"Now when you're in dock and the long trip is through

There's pubs and there's clubs and there's lassies there too

And the girls are all pretty and the beer is all free

And there's bottles of rum growing on every tree"

Problems with the Polar Post

My lack of blog updates is mostly to do with the amount of work I need to do (and have been doing) , mainly on my childrens book, but also on my sea shanties project. Expect a lot more when it's all sorted but here are a few images for now! (p.s the colours are a bit desaturated by blogger for some reason)

Oh Comely Issue 5

Recently i was asked to do another piece for Oh Comely magazine, which is great because they are basically amazing. The issue has lots of interesting stuff - imogen poots, porridge, tea bag squeezing, the insides of people's bags and lots of nice illustrations.

My illustration was for an article on building a coracle:

And here is some other good stuff from inside:
- emma block's illustration for a nice article about mashing tea bags:

Ellakookoo's editorial on tea leaf reading: (it is entirely coincidental that my favourite illustrations involve tea. entirely.)

I could go on and on but you should probably just buy the magazine instead.

Jasper Conran/Michael Van Der Ham

A few more Amelia's Magazine fashion illustrations!

mermaids..

from an upcoming illustrated collection of sea shanties!

V Day

Over the weekend i bought a paper to practice my editorial illustrating. I was hoping for something science-y or financial, but of course it being valentines day there was just loads of valentines stuff. But if you can't beat them join them, so i did this piece on finding love on your commute into work.

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.