New Empress Magazine - Frankensten v BBFC

The latest issue of New Empress film magazine focuses on silent film and the transition into 'talkies'. All artwork and content for it was created, suitably, in greyscale.

My brief was to 'depict Boris Karloff's 'Frankenstein's Monster' strangling an official from the BBFC', fun!

I decided to turn back the clock with how I created this piece to my pre-computer, pre-Photoshop days, when as a teenager I'd spend hours and hours working on pencilled pieces. It was actually a great experience to go back to that and focus on drawing and drawing alone and not worry about layer actions, digital colouring, texture overlays etc etc

Here's the finished piece (with a few digital tweeks and clean ups):

The original pencil art (A3, bristol board) is for sale over at my Etsy shop:

The Fool

Life Drawing 001

New Empress Magazine - Poppins v Magritte

A recent cover design created for the first digital edition of New Empress film magazine.

It was a lot of fun to work on but caused quite a few problems getting off the ground with composition then colour scheme.

Had fun bringing screen printed style effects into the final mix.

Cover with copy:

Big Ten Bob Blow-Out

Over at my Etsy shop I'm selling a number of original one-off pieces including ink, watercolour and acrylic work for the crazy price of £10 each (this does not include additional postage costs, that would be crazy).

Below are a number of images:

I'm only posting to UK and Ireland, expect 10-14 days for delivery.

Call Centre Escape

Here's a first page of a 6-pager I've wrapped up.

It's scripted by David McAtamney, both of us had post-college experience of working in the same barn-like satanic mill call centre in Belfast (although at different times) so demons were being exorcised here in script and art.



And the original pencils...



This is going to go into the next issue of 'Random', which I'll have out for London Comic-Con Expo at the end of May as I've got a table booked in the Comic Village section, looking forward to it!

David's got a music blog 'Weekly Rations' which has some great music mixes and odds and sods, check out his live recording post if you want to hear three grown men descend down the evolutionary chain in real-time through mass alcohol consumption.

This post is dedicated to all people who have worked or do work in call centres.

New Empress Magazine - United Artists

This is recent full-page illustration created for the fourth issue of New Empress magazine.

The brief was to do the line-up of the founders of United Artists production company in 1919 in the style of The Usual Suspects film poster. I dovetailed this with contemporary Art Deco styling and colour palette.