Happy Birthday Arina!

Today was my friend Arina's birthday, and I made her a card based on her recent artwork featuring James Bond...

By a complete coincidence, my friend Yuki also made her a very similar card. Great minds think alike and all that...

Look What THEY Drawed (Christmas 2011)

It's that time of year again, so here are a bunch of creative Christmas cards I received from some of my friends.

First up is this cute little dragon, courtesy of Richy K. Chandler...

Next, Yuki Nishimura drew this hilarious Christmas version of the movie Alive...

Joe Beale drew this picture of Christmas in Greenwich...

Zarina Liew sent me a festive picture of the characters from her
Le Mime web-comic...

And Arina Orlova produced this very topical illustration...

And finally, my dear old mother got in on the act this year and drew me a Christmas card featuring a picture of me pulling Santa's sleigh... Thanks mum! (Although she forgot to draw my beard...)

And thanks to everyone else who sent me a card this Christmas. And I hope you all have a great day tomorrow! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

***UPDATE 02/01/12***
I also got this neat card from Nanae Kawahara, illustrated on both the front and the back...

And I bought Nanae's New Year postcard from her Yaomart market stall at the Duckie Christmas Market at the Barbican, just in time for 2012 – the Year of the Dragon...

The Girl With The James Bond Tattoo

While I was out and about yesterday, I saw the poster for David Fincher's remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo on the side of the BFI IMAX cinema. Seeing Daniel Craig taking on the role of Mikael Blomkvist gave me the idea for this drawing...

The "James Bond tattoo" is taken (with permission) from my friend Arina Orlova's excellent artwork: James Bond: Kills and Kisses.

Happy Birthday Arina!!

Didn't you have a birthday this time last year?!?

So today was my friend Arina's birthday! As she recently spent a whole week watching all the Harry Potter films for the first time, I thought I'd make her a magical birthday card...



...she wasn't able to magically produce a birthday cake in real life though. What a shame.

Happy Birthday Arina!

A new year means new birthdays. Didn't you just have one exactly a year ago??

Kicking the year off, yesterday was my friend Arina's birthday. Here's a card I made for her. Arina is very interested in statistics. This one might not actually be true...