Neal's Yard Herbal Remedies Pop up

Day four and five

#inktober kitty wants some meow mix.

Day two and three

#inktober in Oktober street. Day three & as yesterdays post didn't get throught here's yesterdays on the streets of Budapest

#Inktober day one

#Inktober day one

Thought it would be fun to do all robots... we'll see how I get on.

Inktober and an exciting October

As if October wasn't fun enough with Halloween. This October there will be lots of opportunity to draw.

Yay! you all scream. On the 4th of October there is the 24 hour non stop comic drawing international day! "Bring me my Redbull/Monster/Espresso concoction please".
On top of that, it's #inktober so wip out that inky pen that stained your shirt pocket and get drawing. A drawing a day posted with the above hash tag.

Lastly the lovely town of Chislehurst has asked me to draw a spooky activity sheet for their annual Halloween event. If you were in that attractive greeny edge of London last easter you may have seen the Eggsplore map I drew. If not here are some of my fav buildings in the area. You may have to tilt your head...

Pimp My Robo

Sorting out my apartment has really consumed my life. But today I gave myself some time and sat down to do some design work. Yes that's right I am working on new things! They may not be ready to present just yet but I have dug up this illustration to show you all while you wait. Well I say 'all', but in reality its probably one or two .

This Hand drawn Illustration is for a Kickstarter project that was successfully funded last year. This Kickstarter project was set up by a group of artist/illustrators and designer who get together weekly to draw comics. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Kickstarter, you set up a monetary goal to fund a project and ask people to pledge money. Once the goal is achieved, money is transferred to the group of people/ individual and the project begins. After days and weeks of drawing we successful completed and published our project. For those individuals who pledged there are certain awards/gifts. This particular drawing is a gift for a pledger who requested a robot looking dapper.

 

The details of our Kickstarter can be found here;

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324352192/uzomuzo-alternative-comics-from-japan

The Uzomuzo group website can be found here;

http://uzomuzo.net/comic/

 

And Axiom Magazine which prints monthly and features Uzo Muzo can be found here;

http://www.axiommagazine.jp

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy new year everyone. As I’m sure you know; it is the year of the snake. Snakes are often perceived as bad omens, evil, sly or just scary, but in many cultures they resemble many virtues. Snakes are also associated with rebirth, eternity, patience, fertility, balance, communication, intuition, awareness, healing and protection.

 

I like to think therefore that this year of the snake will bring us all some kind of rebirth that will continue through out our lives.

 

Leaving the Hippy stuff aside, this year I wanted my new year card to be a lot more colourful. I used this project to practice using my tablet for colouring. I found it difficult to draw the snakes in a gentle way considering the stereo types that come with snakes. I tried to overcome this by using botanical art, symmetry and colour. The snakes eating themselves (Ouroboros) are an ancient Greek symbol that represents eternal renewal and cycle. The snake at the bottom is forming the symbol for infinity.