February 2012
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Winter Walk
A couple of pics of a Robin who kindly posed for me whilst on a snowy walk in Norwich.
Also photo of Hana during our snowball fight - was difficult dodging snowballs and snapping the odd photo! see more on my flickr photostream
January 2012
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Portraitr.com
I’ve recently put together the showcase website portraitr. I’ve always loved portraiture and would like to get more involved so hopefully i’ll be posting a few of my own masterpieces soon! I pick from the best work submitted from artists all over the world and add them to the showcase, also linking to their own websites.
There are many ways to submit… fill in the form...
December 2011
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Santa Bowling
Merry Christmas!
My latest illustration task was to create Santa bowling like a pro!
I started as always with sketching in my trusty moleskin sketchbook before scanning into the mac ready to trace in vectors.
Here he is below in full colour. You can download him from graphicriver if you wish to use him for your own bowling poster…
This is the title cropped from the poster I put...
October 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Its time for me to already put together the November magazine at work, where has the year gone! We don’t have access to our stock image service at the moment so I quickly illustrated this turkey for a few events we have coming up…
You can now also purchase him from graphicriver if you’d like to use him for your Thanksgiving events.
Below is one of the event ads I used the...
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Zombie - From Sketch to Vectors
Hey, hope my zombie has not put you off your dinner.
As Halloween is approaching I was doodling while my slow computer was thinking.
I came up with this zombie which I decided to improve on and use in a magazine I design.
I scanned the sketch into the computer and created the ugly fella in CorelDraw.
After some feed back from other designers on forrst.com I added some more shading and...
August 2011
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Mildenhall Market Mascot
Just a few snaps on how my MildenhallMarket.com character evolved…
Sketched idea…
Cleaned up and outlined…
Then scanned in & vectorized on the trusty mac…
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Illustration Stages
Just a small post about this little illustration I completed for the website Canama Dance Supplies I also put together.
Started off with a sketch then once scanned in I added colour in SketchBookPro on my trusty imac using a wacom pen. Then finished off with a bit of texture in Photoshop.
click on the image for a closer look…
Here is also a snap shot of the website the drawing is used on…
July 2011
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My 1st Behance Project →
I’m now a proud behance member… and here is a link to my 1st project - so I best also add a new behance badge to my coat soon. Loads and loads of talented awesome artists on the site, take a browse.
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July 4th Celebrations
Hey, Happy belated July 4th to any of you from the USA. Monday it was the Marketing Departments job to run the information tent at the July 4th Celebrations at RAF Feltwell. So I also took my camera with me!
It was great to see some fly overs from various planes including a Hurricane, Lancaster, B-17 Flying Fortress - Sally B and especially the awesome display from the Red Arrows! hope you like...
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Royal Norfolk Show
During my week off I took my camera along to the Royal Norfolk Show. Loads of great food, entertainment and lots of sunshine apart from one down-poor which we were lucky enough to be in the Art tent anyways… below is a few of my snaps, to view more please visit my Royal Norfolk Show set on Flickr.
June 2011
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Wedding Season
I’ve had a great weekend to kick off my week off work.
My friends wedding could not of gone any better, we all had a awesome time and it was nice to see my illustration doing a grand job on lots of the wedding material :-)
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My VEE-1
Spoilt myself and purchased a brand new bike for the summer. I’ve had the Vitus VEE-1 for about 3/4 weeks now and it’s freakin awesome!. After reading a few reviews I went ahead and ordered it.
My bike arrived in a couple of days from the awesome guys at chainreactioncycles.com with a few nice freebies. I also added some nice wellgo pedals!
To start off with, it looks very cool! all...
April 2011
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Snow Stag T-Shirt Design
As Best Man I had the task of organising a trip snowboarding in Austria. So I created a graphic for our fine screen printed shirts!
started by sketching the Snow Stag in pencil before scanning and editing in Illustrator on my trusty iMac.
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Website finally updated!
Still messing with my website… had the idea about a year ago and now finally managed to power it with tumblr which I’ve found easier than I thought. The awesome tutorials from net tuts+ helped me - well worth the small investment.
I started by taking some photos of myself, then combined and rescaled bits of the images in photoshop…
I also scanned in bits of paper and...
March 2011
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Website under construction
Hi,
Very sorry my website is looking such a mess… in the middle of combining it with tumblr to include a very cool blog. Please come back soon - maybe a in a week or two and it’ll be looking blinding :-)
June 2010
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