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 …
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 …
Troll
Edited to add colour. Trolls and ogres are some of the most varied fantasy creatures in terms of artists’ and writers’ interpretations. …
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 …
Broomsticks are so middle-ages
I probably shouldn’t have got my hopes up too high in regards to the SCWBI Undiscovered Voices competition, but of all my …
Bringing down the moon
Scattering is the working title for a series of illustrations exploring magical and mythological creatures inhabiting modern cities. Aside from being a …
Wraith
The idea for this wraith came from the description of the spirit stalker from the old Fighting Fantasy series – a breed …
Orc soldier
A more conventional orc – this one straight from my ten-year-old self. It’s nice to be able to go back and properly …
Orc chief
This was my fairly unconventional (by the conservative standards of the genre) take on an orc chief. I’ve always associated the look …
Lizardman
I’ve always felt sorry for the lizardman in the fantasy genre as they always seem to be overlooked, despite being used to …
Goblin Ballista
A non-character based fantasy piece, this was to illustrate goblin technology which I feel is criminally underrated by some scholars.
Goblin Archer
Traditional design of a goblin soldier
Goblin Shaman
The goblin shaman was an early drawing for my creature encyclopedia. Goblins are great characters because there’s such a rich background to …
Iron Cat
I only had a couple of short sessions at John Scurr primary school and most of the workshop was drawing improvised picture …