It comes calling

I haven't posted much sketch work, but yesterday my brain seized up whilst trying to puzzle the jigsaw of a tricky page layout, so I drew this instead. Just went straight in with the pen, funny how I often enjoy something more if it's not been laboured with pencil.

Toils of a Fisherman

A recent panel of fishermen mending their net from The Silver Darlings.

A Restorative Dredd

A quick sketch, just to freshen up between drawing fisher-folk.

Confronting perspective

I've never really gotten on with tools for rendering perspective, but this viewpoint forced my hand.

A Cricket in Distress

Thought I'd update with a detail of an elegantly dressed but feverishly panicked  cricket whilst I work on my comic.

Hansel and Gretel

A recent illustration for an upcoming production of the Hansel and Gretel opera - A brief respite from writing a doubtless ground-breaking research paper. I'm now in the final stages and then it's open seas for my current comic project.

A Stuck Herring

Potential cover image for my upcoming comic 'The Silver Darlings'. The image is of a herring run through with a white handled gutting knife.

After Donald McGill

A poster created for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama's upcoming production of Albert Herring http://boxoffice.rsamd.ac.uk/peo/show.asp. Given the parochial tone of this comedy about a period of social change in an East Suffolk village, Donald McGill's saucy sea-side postcards seemed the perfect inspiration. A fleeting departure from ink and watercolour, this was created largely in Photoshop as I wanted it to have a more 1950s/60s travel poster style about it to reflect the setting.

Kaleidoscope @ Orbital Comics

Excited to be exhibiting at the Kaleidoscope exhibition this March, kindly put on by Orbital Comics. It features a range of fantastically diverse, new British Cartoonists from the indie comics scene. Details are on the flyer I put together above and the Facebook event details are right here. No doubt I'll be found loitering covertly in the corner hoping to glean some useful feedback. Thanks especially to Camila at Orbital for making this event happen.

The Silver Darlings - Preview

Open publication - Free publishing - More comic

Three preview pages from a new graphic story due to be published under Blankslate's Chalkmarks imprint later this year. The story concerns a few of the fishermen that I've featured in a couple of previous drawings, it's always great when you find something you really want to draw!