Happy Birthday Tadhg!

My friend Tadhg turned 30 today. Here's a card I made for him!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my Dad's birthday. He's 72 years old. Here's a card I lovingly made for him...

Happy Father's Day

It seems like every time I get around to writing a blog post so far this year it starts with a disclaimer about not having managed to post so often in 2016 and a promise to try to post more in the future...and this one is sadly no different! I've been quite busy the past month or so working on a couple of projects which I can hopefully post about very soon, but in the meantime radio silence will continue I'm afraid.

Anyway, yesterday was Father's Day in the UK and I did manage to find some time to make a card for my dear old Dad, busy "working" in the garden...

Card commission

I wanted to share a recent commission I worked on to draw a birthday/house-warming card. This was a fun job and the client was thankfully very clear in what they wanted, providing lots of photos for reference. I was pleased with the final result, and happily so were they!

Happy Mother's Day

Yesterday was Mother's Day in the UK and despite being away in Oxford for the day, selling my comics at Oxcon comic convention, I made sure I'd drawn a card for my mum. She's recently started going to a weekly Dance for Health class, so I decided to draw a picture of her having a boogie!

Happy Birthday Elizabeth!

It was my friend Elizabeth's birthday yesterday. Here's a card I made for her...

Happy Birthday Clare!

My friend Jess commissioned me to draw a card for her friend Clare's birthday. The last couple of years, I have made Jess a birthday card based on the covers of Hanson albums, because she loves Hanson. And it turns out (surprisingly!) that she's not the only one, and her friend's Tash and Clare are also fans of Hanson. And so Jess wanted me to draw a card for Clare, also including her and Tash, and based on the cover to the band's Shout It Out album...

Happy Mother's Day!

Today is Mother's Day in the UK and here's a card I drew for my mum, who says she often feels like an octopus doing multiple things at once...

Go! Go! Go!

My brother recently passed his driving test, and I made him a card to celebrate the occasion...

Happy Birthday Tadhg!

It was my friend Tadhg's birthday last week and here's a card I drew for him...

Happy Anniversary Mum and Dad!

As well as being New Year's Eve, today is my parents' 37th wedding anniversary. Here's a card I made for them, with them as sparrows. Because they like looking at the sparrows in their garden. And it's difficult to come up with something new to draw every year! :P

Happy 70th Birthday Dad!

My Dad celebrated his 70th Birthday on Friday! And here's a card I made for him...

Happy Birth Day Kai!

My friend Shirlene gave birth to her second child and first son, Kai, at the start of September. And slightly belatedly, I got around to drawing a card to celebrate the occasion...

Happy Birthday Meg!

Yesterday was my friend Meg's birthday. Here's the card I drew for her, based on a photo from her Facebook page...

SURPRISE!!

So my friend Lily is going back to Australia soon, but tonight we had a surprise party for her which went very well and I also made her a card which everyone managed to sign...

Happy Birthday Jess!

It was my friend Jess's birthday the other day. She is also going to a Hanson concert. Therefore I made her this card based on the cover to Hanson's third(!) album, Middle Of Nowhere...

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my dear old Dad's 69th birthday! I was thinking up ideas for a card to draw him, and liked the fact that the number 69 looks the same whichever way round you view it. Just like a playing card...

Happy Birthday Nozomi

It was my friend Nozomi's birthday last week, so I drew her this card. Last year she did a puppet course, so I drew a picture of her with her puppet...

Look What THEY Drawed

It was my birthday last week and I got a some great illustrated cards featuring pictures of me!

Jo Blakely drew this fab picture of me, drawing my own birthday card...


Yuki Nishimura drew this awesome illustration of me, at work in the National Gallery...


And Katy Ellis drew this ace sketch of me, Chibi-style...


And an awesome pic from Anna Dowsland...

The Bartender And The Thief

My mate Tom asked me to draw a card for Jane who is leaving the pub which he frequents on a regular basis...