ILLUSTRATION

Quite a few different characters were required in this picture. The guy in the foreground is saying something inappropriate which gives the game away.

This is a cover illustration for a teen adventure story which takes place in a football camp in Spain. I play in goal, so I know how the keeper feels!

Its about time I posted some new material, so here are a few recent illustrations:

These are two of a series of illustrations for a fantasy adventure with native American spirits...

...with a romantic ending!

A couple of storyboard frames for an over-the-counter throat medecine.

An illustration for a teenage crime story involving polluting criminals.

This is a mascot figure for a product which protects

against infections. In the print ads the genie

holds parents and two children in his arms.

Here are three new illustrations I did for teenage crime thrillers:

Digital painting

I did this digital portrait in Photoshop using layers and a number of brushes of my own construction.

An illustration usually consists of 4 phases. The first phase is a careful reading of the brief. Phase 2 is a very rough scribble of how I could depict the scene while both taking account of all the points in the brief and putting my own spin on the drama, perpective or dynamics. Sometimes there are a couple of phase 2's. When I'm satisfied that phase 2 works, I do a cleaner, more detailed drawing (phase 3), taking care of faces, body language and the setting. The colouring, phase 4, is then done in layers.

All of these stages are done in Photoshop on a Wacom Cintiq. No paper or pencils have been hurt in the making of these illustrations.