Volume Magazine

This is a piece i did specifically for an article for Volume Magazine.

My collective, the mighty 'Paper Jukebox', are being featured on their blog, talking a little bit about us and showcasing some of our new work!

So check it out at Volume Magazine

Me playing

Well i had an afternoon to kill, so decided to have a little play.

Im still trying out variations of Pencil and Digital Collage, haven't really worked out if i like it yet, but yeh, TA DA!

TWOFOLD Magazine "Hollywood The Girl"

This piece i did for issue 2 of TWOFOLD Magazine.

"TWOFOLD is created out of love and passion for everything illustration and typography." ...this im on board with.

Entitled "Hollywood The Girl", i decided to go 'old school Brooks' on this one, and refrained from crowbarring in my current obsession with screenprint, and created the whole image with just my trusty 3B and 3H pencils, with a mild sprinkle of digital collage. And i bloody loved it haha.

So to buy your copy at TWOFOLDMAGAZINE.COM

Rioting Romance

This piece was for a Bug I know.

I was asked to interpret a Richard Lam photograph, taken in the middle of the Vancouver riots after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup.

It was quite hard to translate, but still fun as its such an amazing photograph! I’m not sure I did it justice tbh, but it was worth a try.

Old 'Riot Dining' Logo

Just found this in the depths of my mac, it was used to promote a 3 day event held in Shorditch by Cremini Suppers. It involved a black tie catered meal, except with food fights and live artists doing...odd stuff everywhere.

POPSHOT magazine. "Making Tracks"

One of my most recent works can be seen in recently released Issue 6 (The Love Issue) of POPSHOT MAGAZINE (www.popshotpopshot.com)

I got a call awhile ago asking if i wanted to take part in the magazine, and jumped at the chance! Literally attacked it. Im was already a big fan of the magazine, so being asked to take part was a real honor.

I was then given a poem to illustrate, entitled 'Making Tracks' by Sean Chard. It was great to work from, as it created some subtle, yet powerful visuals, which i felt translated well through my own work. I also had a lot of freedom, which every illustrator loves!

So if you haven’t already, check it out and subscribe at www.popshotpopshot.com/magazine.html

Making Tracks

Tired, like countless times in the past,

With nothing left but unpleasant silence

in orbit around us - bored and

loitering for months.

We wait on abandoned platforms,

blistering and staring at clumps of dead grass.

No train but the tracks click all the same;

unsteady heat rises from iron lines.

Dust is captured in sunlight’s fever -

disturbed by the ground’s inflamed surface.

Paint peels from the waiting-room door

and inside a stale horde of ghosts reverberate.

We stand at the white lined edge of the platform

And like sleepers in-between the hard grey rocks,

we are the same but different – bolted to the ground.

The breeze moves an empty cardboard coffee cup

to rest up against the tracks and like a stuck record

it taps, jumps and replays the tap – a fitting motif.

We have waited here so many times before;

invisible trains rattled past us, their gusts pushed us back.

Too afraid to cross the line and unable to see

our new destinations, we stood for nothing.

But today we are where we need to be,

We are done and we are undone. End of the line.

Cobham Cobras

My new basketball team needed a logo designing on the quick, so this is what i came up with... Pretty pleased with it, it looks so angry!!