Recent Geek projects!

I'm hoping to make up for my serious blogger neglect by showing you a couple of prints I designed recently.

I was commissioned by Mr Geek over at Mr Geek Designs to illustrate a family portrait..but true to his name the family got a geek make-over!

The print was for his partner Anna (of GeekKraft fame) for her Birthday, from the children.

He also asked me to design another print, and to say I was honoured to be asked was a mahoosive understatement!

He only freakin' PROPOSED to Anna by giving her this:

How flippin' awesome huh!

I'm happy to report that she said YES!! wohoo. 

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Geek

(here's the happy *engaged* lady!)

This is a logo I did for a company called (funnily enough) Safe and Found.

It's a company promoting safety awareness for children.

I was asked to draw a family and include as many safety elements as I could - see how many you can spot!

...and here are a couple of close ups...

This goal machine is from a recent commission I did. 

(He totally went on to score from this shot by the way!!)

This lil' lady is part of my next project - a very girlie one involving lots of pink pink pink.

 Far cry from my Pirate ship full of smelly boys!!

It's finished!!

Here is my latest creation, my jolly ol' pirate scene full of lots of cheeky buccaneering bandits!!

I have set myself the task of completing a series of 'scene pieces' to expand my portfolio as I love drawing these more in-depth designs. I have a pretty long list of designs I want to doodle, so here is the 'Pirates' one ticked off!!

...and here are some close-ups...

oh dear mr. sozzled spider!!

Pirate progress part two.

Snoozing (boozing) on the job. It's a hard life being a buccaneer!

Pirate progress.

Ship almost finished, next to add the pirates!

Pirate Pidge!

Part of a new project i'm working on...

The lovely team over at Jeego have turned one of my designs in to an awesome little animation.

It is the first time any of my work has been animated so i'm buzzing right now!!

Well done Jeego, I love it :D 

...and here is how my design looked before they brought it to life...

Jeego are working their magic of a few more of my designs too, so watch this space...

ROOOOAAAAAARRRRRRR!!

Here is my finished piece for this months Pencil Play Collective 'Spring Cleaning' themed doodle.

I wanted to design a scene that had lots of things going on and different things to look at. 

I don't often get the chance to really work in to a piece so I had a lot of fun with this.

As I love drawing characters and animals I decided on a more literal take on the theme. I chose to draw a nice cheery spring scene where the sun was shining and there were lots of animals happily cleaning away. 

The little rebel in me couldn't resist adding a little bit of mess to the scene too though! I decided on a little mole who through innocently tunnelling up to join the fun ends up making a right ol' muddy mess!

...and this is the initial sketch where the idea started from...

Here is a link to PPC's website, go and check them out, they're a lovely ol' lot they are!! 

:)

A sneaky peek of my guest illustrator piece for the lovely Pencil Play Collective

a little project I started a while back.

 (I think I got too busy raiding the cupboards to finish it!)

moral of the story...never doodle food when hungry, oh and cookies are yummy nom nom!

These lot just wondered if you were owl right?!

cute overload!

Check out these cute pics of my little Rockstar getting all excitable over his new print that will soon be going up in his room. 

The print is by the super talented illustrator Ian Dutton who I have admired for a while now. If you haven't already discovered his work go and check him out, his designs are total fabness!

Here's my latest Illustration Friday submission. 

The theme (funnily enough) was eye glasses!

I've been working on some top secret stuff recently, the kind of If I told you about it I would have to destroy straight after kind of stuff!

So until I can reveal all I thought i'd show you how I recently applied one of my birdie designs to a duvet cover for little girls.

So, today I have mainly been putting together my entries for the 5th Global Design a Sock contest for 'Sock it to me'. Designing socks is a first for me and it was a lot of fun! Here are the five tootsie-warming designs i've submitted.

Here are the little dudes from my 'when I grow up i'm going to be a...' range.

Any favourites? I think mine is super boy!

Here are a couple of my Tigerprint design submissions for their 'Lovely days' competition.
I don't play with typography very often but i've had a lot of fun, I'd now like to do a range of these.

I have been a big fan of Tigerprint for years so fingers crossed, wish me luck!

Happy Mother's day

Here's the card I designed for my lovely mumio, I'm very lucky to have her x

naughty knee card!

My lovely tigger-obsessed friend Hannah had an operation on her knee this week.

Here's the card I made to cheer her up :)

look who's been hogging my screen this afternoon. i've just put him on a new card design.

-he said to say hey!

happy world book day!

My favourite picture book, without doubt, is 'lost and found' by oliver jeffers 

(closely followed by all of his other picture books!). 

I have a pretty mahoosive collection of picture books, can't get enough of them! My list of favourites is also gigantanormous (too many to name right now), but in honour of my ultimate fave - a story about a the adventures of a penguin and a little boy I have drawn a mini penguin portrait for ya'll.

it's a p-p-pleasure!

tonight i decided to adapt my nelly from the last post, this time he's moved on to splish-sploshing in puddles.

'TALENT'

Here's my submission for this weeks Illustration Friday topic: 

'talent'

'love is...' development

Loved-up nippers

initial doodle for my 'love is...' project. naww!

I've just adapted my savannah dwelling dude in to a simpler, cleaner design.

Which do you prefer?

(the alternative design is under the 'new designs' post below)

another little peek.

If you go down to the woods today.

a little snippet

...a sneaky snippet of a design I recently finished.

...this little fella makes an appearance too...

A 'sign' of things to come...

Hi Bloggers, I hope you've all had a great weekend. It was my little boy's best buddie's 2nd Birthday party on Sunday. It was held at an indoor adventure play area...which adults were allowed to enter - RESULT!! It was a close call as to had the most fun, me or my little Rockstar!

Meanwhile...I have had to design a signature that will feature on an upcoming piece of artwork I have designed. I will tell you more about the really exciting project soon, but in the mean time, here is the design I decided to go ahead with.

Look who's been keeping me up past 3am!

This little fella thinks you're a top narna!

New designs!

So i've shown you an example of how i've progressed my character 'look', well now i'm going to show you some examples of a few newly finished designs i've been working on.

I have taken my illustrations from illustrator and have had a field day in photoshop (a programme i wasn't that keen on using before) .... i am loving the progression from my previous more 'flat' style. What do you guys think?