Nutcracking Christmas!

An illustration for the brilliant 26 Stories project, with one illustration and story for every day leading up to Christmas.  This one was based on a fantastic story by Tom Collins about the mysterious Nutcracker.  Great fun to do!

The Birds Are Ready

 

 ATTENTION RIOTERS

Stay in your homes.  The birds have been mobilised.

They have beaks and they're not afraid to use them.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Bad boy, naughty boy, in your bed!

Some illustrations for a Children's Book about a rather naughty border collie.  No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post.

Amelia's Magazine

A quickie illustration for the gorgeous Amelia's Magazine, and for a lovely cause too.  Do have a look at the article and youtube thingy, it's rather brilliant.

We're going to the Winchester

Done for, well, no good reason really.  Bit of a Photoshop exercise and homage to the fabulous Shaun of the Dead.  Oh, and by the way, you've got red on you.

Ducks and hens

 These were produced from some illustrations for a forthcoming book 'Hens, Ducks and Bees' for Spring Hill Publishing.  They were black and white illustrations that I thought deserved a splash of colour.  Since doing them, I have been unable to get 'The Ugly Duckling' out of my head.  So he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack, and a flurry of eiderdown...