My favourite cow is a Highland cow

I have a thing about Highland cows, I don't know why but there's something I love about there long ginger hair. If you walk 20 mins down the road from my house you come to a field with a dozen or so highland cattle which is very exciting, I decided to draw one with watercolour just for fun and it hasn't turned out too bad...maybe i'll have to draw some more in future.

Hangin' Film Poster

A while back I was asked to create a poster for my friend Danny's short film Hangin'. In Danny's own words Hangin' is a short film about hangovers, vampires and cheating with the wrong girl. It was a great little project to work on and really nice to do something a bit different for a change. Also, the film is excellent, and it was chosen to be screened in competition at the London Independent Film Festival which is very good news.

ASOS Shirt Prints

The past year or so has flown by and has also been a bit mad. I've travelled, i've moved house, i've tried working on my own but what I haven't done much of is my own work, hence why this blog has somewhat ceased to exist.

I don't usually show my day to day work because mainly I have to consider copyright issues and also I set up this blog to show my own style rather than what someone has briefed me to do. However, these two shirt patterns that I designed a couple of months back are in stores now and i'm rather pleased with them. For a nice change I got to draw things I like the way I like and I think the outcome is pretty darn good. If you like them you can buy them online, for the woodland print, and the bird print.

Winter Floral

Oh dear have I neglected this blog or what.....I'm very sorry to the people who ever look upon this, 2011 hasn't been the blog year I planned it to be. It's a shame really as I do enjoy keeping it but since going freelance in June I haven't done nearly as much of my own work as I would have liked and I can't share my "professional" work that I do on here (if you didn't know already I work as a surface print designer). Anyway, today was a nice change and I had most of the day free so I started working on some of my own patterns, I managed to finish off one and here it is, a winter inspired floral. I am planning some serious changes though, before the year is out i'm planning to get my website up and running to how I'm happy with and my number one new years resolution is to do more of my own work, take a day out of my week to solely work on 'me' things and then be able to share them with you.

An older gent

I managed to finish some "work, work" off today and really had the urge to paint something...I haven't painted anything in a very long time. I realised I don't actually own any paint but have got a tray of watercolours so watercolours were what I used. I decided to paint an old man, just because I like to draw old men so thought maybe it would be fun to paint one, and it was. I built up the colours and then as it needed a bit of definition went over to highlight some areas with my trusty quill and ink. Considering I don't ever work like this I don't think it's turned out too badly, there are a few errors but I think it's a good first try, I might start doing some more work like this.

May the Force be with you

This is a birthday present i've been working on recently for someone special who is a bit of a Star Wars fan and now that they have received it I can share it with you. It was fun to draw as I am also a bit of a Star wars geek and the birthday boy was pleased so all in all it was a win win. I got it printed at Liquid Imaging which is just round the corner from my work and they we're really great and pretty reasonable in price for central London.

Instant Photos

I received a Diana camera for my birthday this year and was extremely spoilt when I also got an instant back for it as a late birthday present from work. I was anxious to give it a go so went out this afternoon to have a play around, I have used polaroid camera's in the past but this was my first attempt at using the diana instant, a few of the images didn't turn out too great, they went too dark or too light, in terms of the ghost like cats, but overall I'm quite pleased with my first try..fingers crossed they can only get better and next try I might have a few mini masterpieces.