Happy Birthday Priscilla!

I just realised that I hadn't posted this before... A few weeks ago it was my friend Priscilla's birthday. Here's a card I made for her based on a cool photo from her Facebook page!

Happy Birthday Richard!

Today was my friend Richard's birthday and he went out for drinks this evening. Richard is into videogames and I wanted to try something slightly different for his birthday card, so I made this 8-bit style portrait of him using an 8-bit paint program I found online...

Happy Birthday Mum!

Today is my Mum's birthday. Here's a card I made for her...



I decided to try using a brush pen again for the line work and am quite pleased with how it turned out.

The House of Illustration's Illustrator's Fair

Last Sunday I took part in The House of Illustrations inaugural Illustrator's Fair, as part of their House-Warming Season ahead of the opening on 2 July with an exhibition of work by Quentin Blake!

This was my first time to have a stall at an event like this. Here's some photos of my stand...







As well as A3 and A4 prints and original artwork, I was also selling copies of my first self-published comic – a collection of my penguin comic strips!



I had a really good day and even managed to sell some of my work! It was really good to see people's reactions to my work and speak with so many people.


(Photo courtesy of Ivy Mei Adeline)


(Photo courtesy of Anna Wrobel)

Happy Birthday Cristina!

Today was my friend Cristina's birthday! And here's a card I made for her...

Baby Samus!

I drew this a while ago now for a competition to draw a Nintendo character as a baby. Although after I drew it, I realised that the closing date was the day before... Still, I was quite pleased with the picture, so here it is: Baby Samus from Metroid!

Happy Birthday June!

It was my friend June's birthday the other week...in June! And she was going to go to karaoke. I was meant to be going too, but then I felt really crappy that day so didn't go in the end. But I had still made her this card...

Happy Birthday Katy!

It was my friend Katy's birthday last week. She recently went to Japan for a holiday (Jealous!). And she has an awesome Zelda Fishing Tournament t-shirt!

Happy Birthday Colette!

It was my friend Colette's birthday last week. A while ago Colette was talking on Twitter about wanting to be drawn like a Disney character, plus she recently cosplayed as Zero Suit Samus from the Metroid games, so I tried drawing a Disney-style portrait of Colette as Samus...

Birthday card commission

I draw a LOT of birthday cards for my friends, but the other week I was contacted by somebody who wanted me to draw a birthday card for their husband Paul's 64th birthday. She sent me some photos for reference as well as giving me a bit of background information, like the fact that he enjoys fishing, and I came up with the following design...