Happy Birthday Will!

While catching up with blogging about all the illustrations I drew in 2017, I also want to try to keep on top of posting about 2018. So here's a birthday card I drew for my cousin Will, who turned 15 today and got a guitar as a present. He's also obsessed with London Transport, so I decided to draw him trying his hand at busking on the Underground...

Happy Birthday Roger Hargreaves!

Roger Hargreaves is best known as the creator of the Mr. Men. He sadly passed away in September 1988, but today would have been his 76th birthday, and to celebrate his work, the search engine Google today featured 16 different Mr. Men-themed illustrations on their home page.

I loved the Mr. Men books as a child – my personal favourites were Mr. Tickle and Mr. Bump – and there's still something very endearing about the characters that Hargreaves created, and I wanted to draw something myself to mark the occasion.

So here's my own Mr. Men drawing, a homage to Jack Kirby's cover to Fantastic Four #1...