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| Concept art of a parasitic alien, designed for an independent film. The script was fairly vague about the physical details of the creature, leaving a lot of room for a creative interpretation of the basic squid-like form described. |
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Pixel Art
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| Another character sheet from the Very Small Monsters project; images from this set eventually became 1" badge designs. |
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Pixel Art
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| A character sheet from a mooted multimedia project aimed at mobile devices, particularly iPods and WAP phones. |
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Pixel Art
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| One of twelve pages from a self-published minicomic I produced for the 2006 UK Web & Minicomix Thing, a small-press comics convention held in Mile End. |
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| A collaboration between myself and Lowlife Toys' Stuart Witter (http://www.stuartwitter.com), originally for a mooted Flash game using his characters rendered in my pixel art style. |
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| A somewhat different take on the protagonist from the cult freeware computer game Doukutsu Monotagari (Cave Story), painted entirely in Photoshop. Original character (c)Pixel. |
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Manga Studio EX
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| First in a series of promotional poster designs for the San Francisco-based indie band. Poster dimensions, photocopier friendliness, and space for the band to add additional details were prerequisite; certain visual elements came from earlier promotional material, but that was a conscious decision on my part rather than a requirement of the brief. Original artwork is 216x280mm. |
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| A promotional poster design for a York-based band. The client specifically requested the presence of the mushroom cloud element and the inclusion of the four band members in some form, and that the final poster be photocopier-friendly, but all layout and style decisions were in my hands. Original artwork is 210x297mm. |
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| The Independent/Doomface Promotions |
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| A poster design to promote the bar's open mic night, for distribution throughout York. Because they're intended for photocopying, I took this as an opportunity to experiment with screentone shading, which I'd not used before. Other than the need to include the information at the bottom, and the stipulation that it had to be suitable for photocopying, the entire design was left up to me. Original artwork is 210x297mm. |
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| A guest strip for Rene Engström's webcomic, the first of a guest artist week for the comic while Rene was exhibiting with me and some fellow illustrators at the 2008 UK Web & Minicomix Thing (mine is the third strip down, The Tale Of Anders' Fight With Lars). As with my Ugly Hill guest spot, the site design dictated the width of the strip, and the character designs are Rene's, but otherwise I had free reign to do as I pleased (although I did end up using story elements from earlier strips). |
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| The other half of Washington electrocrunk superstars 999 Kra! - Miss Ivory. Both of these pieces were left entirely in my hands; everything from the poses to the outfits to the rendering style was up to me. Original artwork is roughly 350x500mm. |
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| 999 Kra! are an Olympia, Washington-based electro-crunk duo; this piece was originally destined for a flyer design, but the fully-painted version shown here is now set to be part of the interior artwork for a forthcoming CD release. Original artwork is roughly 350x500mm. |
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| Paul Southworth asked me to produce a strip for his long-running series, as part of a fortnight-long guest artist run, while he took some paternity leave from the comic. The character designs, obviously, are his, and the site design dictated the maximum width of the artwork, but everything else was left up to me. |
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| A cover design for The Definite Articles' forthcoming EP, Mono. The basic concept was suggested by the band, and the flower motif came from the use of native Californian flora on an earlier Articles cover. |
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| The concept of heavily-"wired" characters was suggested by the editor; everything else in this illustration was drawn from elements in the article. |
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| This was a more structured brief, and the illustration was produced without having read the article it illustrates. The editor asked for "something showing an Australian backpacker type in London." |
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| This was an essentially unbriefed illustration; I read the article and illustrated it completely independently. The column had already been published with a stock photography image header, and my work was retrofitted after PopMatters decided they wanted me on staff. Time to complete: four hours from concept to completed illustration (the version seen here is severely cropped). |
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