Design Update: Logo, Book cover & Branding
This post is a design update, showing the latest projects I've been working on. It has been quite a busy and exciting time, especially as these projects have all been…
An interview with Annette by Rachel Howden
Rachel, a Graphic Design student approached me a while back asking if she could interview me as part of a video assignment in her final year of studies. I hadn't…
Illustrated pre-Christmas Wrap
It has been a busy busy time lately, which unfortunately has led to a terrible decline in posts. To remedy this slightly, here's a little wrap of what's been happening…
Drawing the Tarot – Meet the Pages
A Page is seen as a youthful messenger; a voice speaking for the suit to which he or she belongs. In the drawings (pen & ink), I used key symbols…
Friday line-drawing of kids
With school holidays prompting a slight break from the Tarot project, it's been nice to spend some sunny hours drawing with the kids at the kitchen table :) Today I…
Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock - pen & ink drawing
Drawing Robert Downey Jr
I love the Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey Jr. They're a real treat to watch with great actors and fast paced stories told with plenty of humour, fabulous music…
Weekend Drawings – Viggo and Tutankhamun
A sunny weekend, marking the start of school holidays and le Tour de France - inspired me to take a short break from my Tarot project and do some other…
5 of Cups, Pentacles and Swords
A quick update with my latest Tarot cards... the five of cups, pentacles and swords. When drawing the cards I find it interesting how they connect together in so many…
Tarot: Card size and versions of The Moon
After working on this project for near on 3 years you would think I'd have thought about the final size of the printed cards... not so (too busy drawing)... That…
Tarot minor arcana #4 and my drawing process
My Drawing Process In this post I thought I'd talk a little about my drawing process with the tarot cards, before showing you the next 4 cards... hope you enjoy…
Tarot minor arcana #3 in each suit
Here is a short post with the next 4 cards in my Tarot series: the number 3 card in each suit of the minor arcana. I am busy painting the…
Tarot – Minor arcana – #2 in each suit
The Minor Arcana in the Tarot deck is made up of 56 cards (divided into 4 suits: Rods, Swords, Cups and Pentacles), a while back I did the aces in…
Drawing with Rapidograph pens
I thought I'd post the first two drawings done with my new rOtring Rapidograph pens - you can read more about them (and what technical drawing pens are) in this…
rOtring Rapidograph Pens
Technical drawing pens were originally developed for architects and engineers (for precision and all that jazz to do with rulers, compasses and drawing straight predictable lines), though today they are…
Drawing Robert de Niro
Continuing on pen & ink drawings - I ventured down Godfather lane and drew this portrait of Robert de Niro playing Vito Corleone in the second movie: Original Pen &…