Old Skool Scribbling!

So while I was having a bit of a tidy up yesterday, I found this drawing I did back in the murky past of 1998 (when I would have been around 18 years old!) featuring characters from the N64 game Banjo-Kazooie chilling out at home and having a game of GoldenEye. Coincidentally, yesterday was also 14 years since the Nintendo N64 was released in Europe on 1 March 1997.

Anyway, I decided to scan and colour the image in Photoshop. And here it is...



I might have to have a root around at home and see if I can find anymore of my old drawings. Sadly I'm not sure too many of them still exist. I tended to draw for my own enjoyment and a lot of the time end up throwing them away when I was finished. Still, if I can find some bits and pieces I think I'll post them up here...

Illustration Friday: Swarm

This week's Illustration Friday theme was Swarm.

Uh-oh! This little bee is as angry as an entire swarm!



And here's a close-up of the swarm of bees in the lettering...

Happy Birthday Zelda!

Today is the 25th Anniversary of the Japanese launch of The Legend of Zelda, possibly my favouritest video game series ever!

I couldn't let the day pass without a drawing to celebrate the occasion, featuring Link – the main character of the game – and my own Top Video Game Sound Of All Time: the fanfare that sounds when Link opens a large treasure chest! (I sometimes hear this sound in my head when I open things in real life...!)

Illustration Friday: Layer

This week's Illustration Friday theme is Layer.

I was a bit stuck for ideas this week, but then while I was doing another illustration, I suddenly realised that I'm always using Layers...in Photoshop!









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And incase you were wondering, this was what I drew for last week's Illustration Friday, which could also be used this week...

Digital Love

Happy Valentine's Day...

Happy Birthday Aine!

Yesterday was my friend Aine's 30th birthday and we had a surprise party for her with some of her friends and family from Ireland turning up too.

Aine was on the Illustration MA course with me, and one of her projects was illustrating an A-Z book of beards: The Book of Pogonology. So I decided to draw her a beard-themed card for her birthday...

Illustration Friday: Sweater

This week's Illustration Friday theme is Sweater.
There's nothing like wearing a thick woolen sweater on a sunny day to make you perspire...

The White Stripes R.I.P.

Last week (2 Feb) The White Stripes announced that they had "officially ended and will make no further records or perform live".

The White Stripes are one of my favourite bands and while this announcement isn't really that surprising given that their last studio album was 2007's Icky Thump (and since then, Jack White had been playing as part of both The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather), I was sad to hear the official announcement of the split.

Anyway, I decided to draw a picture of the Detroit duo, inspired by the video to their 2003 single, Seven Nation Army, from their fourth album Elephant...

Illustration Friday: Reverse

This week's Illustration Friday theme is Reverse.

I took a little while to come up with something again this week, but then this little comic entered my head on the tube this morning...

Happy Birthday Jenna!

This weekend I went up to Coventry for my friend Jenna's 30th birthday party. Rather worringly we worked out that it was 12 years ago (!!!) that we met, when we were in the same student halls
at The University of Reading.

Here's a photo of the card I made for her, with added glitter and sparkles...