God rest ye merry, elephants, Let nothing you dismay...

I was asked by the Elephant Family – a UK-based charity working to protect Asian elephants and their habitat – to produce an illustration to use for their Christmas card.

They had enjoyed seeing the cartoons I'd produced during the Elephant Parade event in London earlier this year, and while they were coming up with ideas for their card, my name was mentioned.
I am very interested in the work that the Elephant Family do and pleased that they liked my previous drawings, so was more than happy to donate my time to create a new illustration for them.

They had come up with the idea of an iconic red London double decker bus, filled with some of the elephants from the Parade.
And because it is Christmas, I included a special bus driver for
the evening...



You can still sign the Elephant Family's online petition to help save the Asian elephant.

Café con sketche!

This evening I was waiting in the Café at Foyles to meet some friends and go for dinner. While I was waiting, I did a couple of quick sketches from photos in a free magazine I picked up, and added some colour when I got home...


Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables


Barack Obama

I enjoyed doing these, and it was a good way to pass the time. I might do some more next time I'm having a coffee somewhere...

The animals came in two by two...

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Okay, I promise this will be the last comic about the weather for a while! Maybe...

Rain rain go away, come again another day...

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I'm beginning to think I may be becoming a bit obsessed with the weather lately... How very English of me!

Brass monkeys...

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So I actually drew this last night after a particularly cold walk home spent contemplating the puffs of steam coming out of my mouth when I breathed. But then my internet wasn't working, so I wasn't able to post it until today when, ironically, it's not quite so cold.

Stupid, stupid rat creatures!

Yesterday morning I noticed on Twitter that Amelia's Magazine were producing an article about the naked mole rat – a freaky little critter affectionately referred to as the "sabre-toothed sausage" – and wanted some illustrations to accompany the text.

Unable to resist the chance to draw this slightly hideous creature, I decided to create an image based on B-movie horror posters...



You can read the full article here. And remember, a naked mole rat is for life, not just for Christmas...!

London MCM Expo 2010

This weekend was the London MCM Expo at the Excel Centre in London which brings together all the best in comics, movies, games and manga under one gigantic roof, along with an abundance of cosplay.

I went along for the first time ever on the Saturday, and really enjoyed it, although after a while it all began to take its toll a little...


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In all seriousness though, the event did make me feel like making more comics again, so I should be posting up some more comics-related work on here very soon...!

Frank Einstien's Monster

No need to be rude...!



Happy Halloween!

The Dark Knight Rises ... at 7.00am

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Nolan has revealed that the title for his third Batman film will be The Dark Knight Rises, which made me imagine 180 minutes of Bruce Wayne waking up in the morning...



Well, it couldn't be worse than Batman & Robin...!

AccessArt Visual Encyclopedia

I've just finished drawing a bunch of objects for AccessArt's Visual Encyclopedia, which is part of The Big Draw 2010. This is an open submission project available to people of all ages and levels of artistic ability, which wants drawings of any non-animate objects, whatever it might be, and all the submissions will be compiled into an online encyclopedia recording the objects and drawings.

Looking around on my desk for inspiration I ended up drawing the following items:

My iPod...


A marker pen...


A stapler...


And a rubber duck...


Don't ask why I had a rubber duck on my desk. I have a lot of junk on my desk!

Anyway, I've emailed my drawings to AccessArt, so they should be included along with everyone else's illustrations when the Visual Encyclopedia is compiled. The deadline for submissions is the end of this week, so there's still time to join in...