Papa-Charlie

This is a quick sketch i did for the European Panda Project - he's called Papa-Charlie.

The project was started by Joel Millerchip and Chris Nunn - basically a flikr group of European Pandas, any medium, just have to be black and white.

See more here...

Whole Nine Yards - Business cards

These are some business cards I've just designed and had printed for Whole Nine Yards - a client I did quite a lot of illustration work for a while back.

another nice print job from Ripe Digital.

Thinking Caps

'Thinking Caps' is an exhibition of up to 100 classic cycling caps - each of a bespoke design submitted by artists and designers. The caps will be exhibited in Howies (Bristol) gallery space throughout the Bristol Bike Festival (11th - 26th September).

These are the 2 side panels of my cap, which i created using a combination of pens and sewing machine. I had great fun making it and think it is a technique i will be re-visiting for future projects.

Find out more about the Thinking Caps project here

Animals

These are some animals i was asked to create for a potential new job... you know, for kids.

Colonel Windpipe's Musical Brigade

Meet Lieutenant Tristram de Bonneville.

This is my contribution to a fun illustration project, and brainchild of uberkraaft and Lesley Barnes.

Illustrators are invited to submit characters to join their merry, magical marching band, which will eventually be put together as one huge print to be sold for charity.

Find out more about the project here:

http://colonelwindpipe.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com/groups/colonelwindpipe

Yoga Icons

These are a set of icons I created for Gravity, and a 'yoga-based holidays' client of theirs.

Illustration Rally

This was my contribution to the current Illustration Rally based on European Countries.

By the power of a lottery, I was allotted Azerbaijan - a country i knew very little, if anything about.

With some research, I found that in Azerbaijan there is a old tradition of fire-jumping to rid yourself of hardship. That and oil, farming, carpet- making and general political unrest...!

Ink-Dot Exhibition

The Ink-dot "Escape" show which opened on 17th June still has a few days to go (until 11th july) at the Howies store in Bristol.

... so if you're passing, pop in to see mine and 31 other artists' responses to the brief "Escape" using the set palette of 6 colours.

A really great bunch of work. Go see!

For more details visit www.ink-dot.co.uk

Racing Pigeon Wallpaper

I've just created a new pattern for Repeat-x Repeat-y. It is available to download for free, along with loads of other fun patterns from a whole host of great designers/illustrators/artists. Go see!

Super Fly Freedom Fighter

This is my submission for Kerouac's Dog, a soon-to-launch independent quarterly magazine for new writing, design, photography, fashion and creativity on general. The theme for the first issue is 'Freedom'.

The image turned out with a bit more of a sinister feel than my usual stuff. Not sure why. The sun's out and i really enjoyed doing it... just got the pens out and that's what happened. I guess freedom fighters aren't exactly chirpy..!

Monochrome was a stipulation, as the mag's going to be printed purely in black & white.