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Recent Posts
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Baba Yaga
One of the last of my Inktober works, I used my ‘Once upon a time’ poster as the jumping off point as I liked the rendering of Baba Yaga on […]
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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 bought and that had been hidden away in […]
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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 way that the softer brush work lends itself […]
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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 of my ‘unconventional wolf’ designs – I quite […]
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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 let the dragons bite and also my Once […]
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Hogwarts
Prints for sale on request This work involved a lot more detailed assets than my cityscapes, largely due to all of the stone walls, tiled roofs, etc. It also involved […]
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New York, New York!
Prints for sale on request Okay, it’s eBoy influenced, but it’s also got the Flatiron building and the Empire State, and the restaurant from Seinfeld. I really wanted to have […]
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London Calling 2!
Prints for sale on request I’ve returned to pixel art, at least for the time being, following a portfolio review. And I’ve been working on character sheets, mainly sitcom […]
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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 my superb bid-writing skills 🙂 ) – which […]
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Troll
Edited to add colour. Trolls and ogres are some of the most varied fantasy creatures in terms of artists’ and writers’ interpretations. Green skin or not green skin? Dumb as […]
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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 wolf is deliberately scrawny – it’s been lean […]
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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 work, I thought that I’d at least be […]
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Out of Place
Out of Place will be the title of the 2016 Tower Hamlets creative writing competition which we’ll be running with the HEC Global Education Centre. The project will publish the […]
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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 draw the creatures that I used to doodle […]
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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 of orcs with swine, and I love the […]
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Lizardman
I’ve always felt sorry for the lizardman in the fantasy genre as they always seem to be overlooked, despite being used to great effect in the Titan series by Steve […]
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Goblin Ballista
A non-character based fantasy piece, this was to illustrate goblin technology which I feel is criminally underrated by some scholars. Related posts:Stone golemFire elementalDeadlockMr WolfOn a hidden islandThe trickster in […]
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Goblin Archer
Traditional design of a goblin soldier Related posts:Stone golemFire elementalDeadlockMr WolfOn a hidden islandThe trickster in the treeDustwalkerMermaidCity leviathanShadowtoothKnightNimueWinter templeConfronting the huntEscaping the huntThe Hunt of Smoke and ShadowAirshipDrawing ExcaliburCamlannEdmund […]
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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 them. I’m veering towards the Steve Jackson/ Ian […]
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Pixel Library
My pixel art Hogwarts is still ongoing, but this is my latest poster – the Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services in it’s new premesis. The design was intended to stand […]
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Mini Mega City One
After I posted London Calling on the 2000AD message board, someone suggested a pixel art Mega City One, and here’s the result. I realised that a cityscape would be next […]
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London Calling
London Calling is my latest poster for schools – intended as inspiration for the 2012 Tower Hamlets Creative Writing Competition. It’s also the most ambitions and complex piece I’ve worked […]