posted: August 24, 2007

A while back I  was contacted by Earmint (a cool chicago hip hop musician type person) to contribute to a CD cover art project he was planning.

A whole bunch of artists and illustrators were asked to essentially 'colour in' in any way they liked a line drawing of the man himself

The results are now online at www.earmint-gallery.com and are available to download along side his new album.

It's cool to see how each person had made the image their own. 

Heres just a small selection from the site:

Top row: Allan Sanders, Catherine LePage, Nick Deakin
2nd row: Jordy Van Den Nieuwendijk, Sarajo Frieden, Natty Kocsis
3rd row:  Eyeport, Tommy Kane, Me
Bottom row: Bubi Au Yeung, Logan Bay, Andreas Karaoulanis

posted: August 21, 2007

it's uncanny  that I saw Lou Brooks' gallery post  right on the very same day that I was confinced that all my own drawing worries were over for good.

I first saw this ad way back in the autumn of '56 and sure it may have taken some 51 years for my purchase to arrive, ...but hey what's a half a century...when I can now design clothes, copy comic heroes*, draw pets, family, animals - ALL The EASY WAY!


*excluding all copyrighted characters and material for commercial and non commercial work.

So here it is, in the flesh: the Magic Image Projector

Either I'm missing a bit or it's just not OS X compliant

I wonder how long it will take for a refund?

posted: August 21, 2007

I've been quite busy over the last few weeks so, other than a few days in Dublin (and tickets to a cool REM gig), there's been not much chance for any summer holiday and/or relaxation yet. 

I'm going to be Toronto for a few days next month so will appreciate any tips or recommendations from drawgers and non-drawgers alike.  Hopefully I'll get the chance to meet up with Drawger Leighton while I'm there.

In the meantime, heres a few work-related illustrations I've done recently for the office hours section of The Guardian...

posted: August 16, 2007

I know it's a question you're asking yourself so here's a little quiz  courtesy of Readers Digest (c.1950) to help boost your ego.

I won't tell you my score, but let's just say there was no surprise second count.  Damn.  I think question 13 could have been the deal breaker ...