Here's a print illustration for a specialist hospital called the Shepard Centre. The article discusses research that suggests that ultrasound can be used for treating seizures. 

My sketch (based on a sketch and concept by the AD Kip Williams at Soloflight) followed by the final.

A new personal illustration that I finished this weekend, where I had some fun playing with felt-tip pens and inks to create the flower part of the illustration, which I then adjusted in photoshop. 

Here's a piece I did for the Secret 7" exhibition and sale that took place in London last weekend, with all proceeds of artwork sold going to Teenage Cancer Trust. There were 700 pieces of artwork, 7" vinyl sleeves, all inspired by one of 7 songs by 7 Universal music artists. I chose to illustrate the Florence + The Machine song, 'Only if for a night'. I took a fairly liberal take on the meaning of the song, just concentrating on a couple of the images from the lyrics. 
Below the final piece is my original digital sketch. 

Google Think Quarterly

I've just added a new couple of illustrations to my online portfolio that were commissioned for the latest issue of Google's Think Quarterly, an online and print publication. Here's one of the illustrations: 

And below are a few small roughs for this image, click for a larger view: 

Jungle illustration and process

This morning I finished a new personal illustration, based on an idea I had of a kitchen filled with potted plants turning into a jungle in a daydream. 


I started with a very rough sketch in photoshop (normally I sketch in pencil first, but this time it just seemed easier to delete and edit as I didn't know really what I wanted). After an hour or so of sketching and deleting, I had arrived at the sketch below. 

I knew by looking at the sketch that I would run into problems when it came to coloring the girl at the table, as my lines are very rough and I hadn't drawn the hands clearly. A clear pencil drawing really makes the difference at the photoshop stage, so I took a pencil and paper and re-drew the daydreaming lady.

Her hair changes in this sketch, which wasn't planned, I just drew it as a preliminary squiggle and hesitated before rubbing it out when I saw that it looked ok. That's what's I find is much fun about drawing pictures, the element of mystery about it. I can have a vague idea of what I want but I'm always surprised buy something that happens along the way. They are not all good surprises though.

Here I've started to colour the background and I've added a paper texture, which I find really adds some nice contrast to the image, and a hint of orangey/brown over the picture helps the different colours to work together.

I tend to try and keep my colour palette small, as it's so difficult to work with more than two or three basic colours. I generally choose one warm and one cool colour and then work with variations on those. 

This is the illustration almost finished. I left it like this overnight and then came back to work on it the next morning. I felt that the bookcase wasn't working where it touches the ground, so I deleted a bit of that. I also added a tiger's tail to get a bit of orange into the bottom left, balancing the orange of the girls hair and helping to draw the eye into the foliage. 

Trumpet

Here's a quick picture I did this morning. I'm thinking of using this trumpet guy as a character in a narrative I'm working on. 

Old and New project

Below is my contribution to the Old and New project: http://oldandnewproject.com A website that invites illustrators and designers to interpret a biblical passage. I'm not a believer but I've found it an interesting challenge. I was given a passage from 1 Chronicles 12 verse 8 to illustrate. 

I've also put together a short description of the process that went into creating the image.