The Hobbit. Journey to Rivendell
I’ve just moved back to colour pencils and it’s been one of those “where have you been all my life?!” moments. When …
London Book Fair 2018
I’d never visited the LBF before, so it was an interesting experience taking part this year and having some of my art …
Cyber Tiger!
I’m going to work into this some more, probably with brush and ink. It’s intended as an enemy encounter illustration for a …
Confronting the hunt
The last of my Hunt of Smoke and Shadow series, this is an illustration from the closing chapters of Nevermoor and I …
Escaping the hunt
What do you need most in an emergency? How about a giant clockwork spider powered by magic to escape in? Yep, that …
The Hunt of Smoke and Shadow
Nevermoor : The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend has been a recent source of inspiration for me. The Hunt of …
Hotel Deucalion
One of my illustrations inspired by Nevermoor : The trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend. I completed a couple of silhouette …
Airship
I followed up the Northern Lights drawings with this digital piece. Based on the airships in the story, I wanted an excuse …
We need more kittens!
Any excuse to draw kittens
Witch and her cat
This website needs more cats. Even this wee kitty makes all the difference. The drawing, by the way, was intended for a …
Canvas prints
Wow – I must be doing something right, because I got a repeat customer! I also got a lesson in canvas printing …
Wow – I made it!
I reached the Undiscovered Voices 2018 final lineup! Well, firstly a big thank you to Working Partners Ltd and especially to Chris …
Drawing Excalibur
I’ll be writing a longer blog post in regards to Undiscovered Voices, but this is the work that got me to the …
Camlann
I completed two pictures from the Arthurian legends for Undiscovered Voices 2018, and this was the companion piece to my competition entry. …
The stone table breaks
My second Narnia piece and another painted silhouette. I’ve toned down the bright yellow in the sky and I’m glad that the …
Edmund and the White Witch
Drawn – appropriately – over the Christmas holidays, I’d originally planned to illustrate scenes from Voyage of the Dawn Treader which is …
Lyra
I returned to Northern Lights because it gave me an excuse to try a silhouette and cityscape combination – another experiment at …
Iorek Byrnison
An evening holiday drawing that earned enough good feedback to make it into my portfolio. I got some praise for the pen …
Toad hog!
My second Wind in the Willows piece. As well as captuing the action, I also wanted enough static detail to expand on …
Ratty and Mole
A departure from my fantasy work, this was one of a series inspired by the first Undiscoverd Voices 2018 brief. I wanted …
At the bonfire
Another dark fantasy piece. This one was directly inspired by the Dark Souls series of videogames – itself inspired by the Fighting …
Brigand
My monster illustrations were a trip back to my childhood spent reading Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s ‘Fighting Fantasy’ series. The silhouette …
Red Riding Hood sets out
My final Red Riding Hood piece for now. This is close in composition (though it has fewer frames) to the drawing that …
Railhead – The Damask Rose
I’m still kicking myself that I met Philip Reeve and completely forgot to bring my copy of Railhead along to get signed. …
Quidditch
The last of my Harry Potter images for now. This was another earlier piece that I drew to test out ideas for …
Perseus and Medusa
Intended as an interior book illustration, my intention with this was to play around with perspective using silhouettes. The scene shows Perseus …
I’m on the longlist!
Now, firstly, the important stuff. Is ‘longlist’ even a real word? Every spellchecker I use says ‘no’ (but they also say spellchecker’ …
That December feeling
Well, it’s getting close to the close of 2017 and it’s been a rather interesting year. Aside from getting lots of extra …
Expecto Patronum!
I returned to Harry Potter for an action based scene to illustrate. This one gave me the opportunity to play around properly …
History of Magic
Another silhouette piece and an illustration from Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. I chose this scene because it’s character based …
Theseus and the Minotaur
Preparing for the 2017/18 Undiscovered Voices Competition (yes, I’m giving it another go), I decided to move my work in a new …
Going climbing
As well as my myths and legends illustrations, I also had a go at drawing some other children’s book scenes with brush …
Baba Yaga
One of the last of my Inktober works, I used my ‘Once upon a time’ poster as the jumping off point as …
Little Red and the wolf
My final Red Riding Hood ink drawing for the time being. This was my experiment with coloured inks that I’d forgotten I’d …
Red Riding Hood Revisited
I revisited the Red Riding Hood story after completing my previous pen and ink drawing from the story. I much prefer the …
The soggy bad wolf
I was inspired by ‘Inktober’ last year, and started to work on a series of brush and ink illustrations. This was one …
Witch
One of my Inktober fairytale sketches. I was exploring ways of adapting the style that I’d been playing around with for …don’t …
Hogwarts
Now for sale on Etsy! Oh god, I’m officially a Harry Potter fan artist / tribute artist/ whatever… I put a hold …
New York, New York!
Now for sale on Etsy! Okay, it’s eBoy influenced, but it’s also got the Flatiron building and the Empire State, and the …
London Calling 2!
Now for sale on Etsy! I’ve returned to pixel art, at least for the time being, following a portfolio review. And I’ve …
2017 Booklists
I’m not sure where the geometric idea came from – probably just the requirement to differentiate the lists as much as possible …
2016 Booklists
These designs ended up looking really striking and allowed for the covers to be a decent size. The tidy design made them …
This is My Dream
This is My Dream is the 2017 Tower Hamlets Creative Writing Competition, and our first to get Arts Council funding (thanks to …
The Mummy
Another of my hark backs to Fighting Fantasy. I’ve now taken to colouring in the pen and ink fantasy creatures series, and …
Troll
Edited to add colour. Trolls and ogres are some of the most varied fantasy creatures in terms of artists’ and writers’ interpretations. …
Harry Potter Sketch
I’ve been running in ever decreasing circles since a portfolio review earlier this year which could be summed up as “we like …
Going back to pixels
Well, I took part in a portfolio intensive critique earlier this year via my SCBWI membership, and it was an eye-opener for …
London Calling : Canvas Print
I was very kindly sent these pictures of my London Calling pixel city canvas print. I was – to be quite honest …
Red Riding Hood
My entry for the Tommie Depaola 2016 award. I wanted Red Riding Hood to have an eastern European look to her. The …
Let’s dance
A return to Inn from the cold and a change of media. I’m probably going to have to digitally colour this one …