Make me an angel
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery,
Paint me a picture of an old rodeo,
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to,
To believe in this living is a hard way to go
Latest Entries
Do I have a signature style?
I’ve been looking at some of my recent illustrations to see if I have or am developing a signature style or if there is any common thread running through my work, either stylistically or thematically. So I’ve laid some out in order to take a look. What do you think?
Spank!!
Another experiment in medium. Hand drawn in pencil but then redrawn in Illustrator then coloured in Photoshop. Not sure what method I prefer – using pen and ink for lines and then adding colour in Photoshop or having vectored lines from Illustrator. There are benefits of both. Pen and ink seems more gestural and spontaneous, Illustrator has such clean, unequivocal lines. The art is crisper but digital seems to lose soul and expression. Either way, the ultimate is not to let the medium dictate the work and remember that it is just the tool.
Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur ?
Ô bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits !
Pour un coeur qui s’ennuie,
Ô le chant de la pluie !
Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce coeur qui s’écoeure.
Quoi ! nulle trahison ?…
Ce deuil est sans raison.
C’est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon coeur a tant de peine !
Negative Space
Part of my exploration of different ways of presenting type. Another Living Type experiment. Looking at how we view type in the world, hand drawn type and ways of seeing. Using ephemera, found objects, negative space, and freeing existing typefaces from the bounds of Illustrator and digital programs.
Talk to the Hand
Working on some illustrations that combine hand drawn and digital elements by scanning pen and ink into Photoshop.
Inspired by Mr Bingo, the illustrator who partly makes a living sending insulting postcards to willing customers.
This illustration also morphed into my girlfriend’s Valentine’s Day card.
Necessity and Invention
A Living Type experiment. Stencilled cut out on crappy paper with good old Pledge furniture polish as my spray can!
Google+ How Important Is It?
I made a Google+ page today. I felt compelled to by all the talk and traffic about it on my various news feeds. But just how important is it, or is it going to be? Some would say very important. As Google maintains its position as the pre-eminent search engine (read ‘only’ for some people), its impact on how we connect and search remains significant.