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...

Happy Birthday Tom!

As well as getting married, it was also my friend Tom's birthday recently. And Mario Kart 8 was released on the Wii U! While we haven't managed to get round to playing against each other online yet, I drew this Mario Kart-style picture of Tom for his birthday...

Congratualtions Tom and Beth!

I went to a lot of weddings during the last week of May! Well, two. But that still seems to be quite a lot for one week... Anyway, my friends Tom and Beth got married on the beach in Newquay, which my friend Ainé referred to as "a Home And Away wedding"! Fortunately the weather was amazing that day and afterwards I drew a card with Tom and Beth enjoying the sunshine on the beach...

Congratulations Kavita and Gus!

How time flies! Over a month ago, I went to the wedding of my friends Kavita and Gus. I had previously designed the invitation for their wedding with an illustration of them both on the front. Gus use to be in the Royal Air Force and Kavita works as a GP...



At the wedding Kavita's friend Jenny had made the (delicious!) wedding cake, and she told me that she'd had the idea to create the figures on the top of the cake after seeing my invitation...



And so when it came to making a card for Kavita and Gus, I thought I'd take some inspiration from Jenny's cake, and draw Kavita and Gus on top of a cake!

Happy 30th Birthday, Ghostbusters!

I make no secret of the fact that Ghostbusters is my all-time favourite movie. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of it's release in 1984, and more specifically today it's 30 years since the movie first premiered in California on June 7th, and so what better time to post this drawing I did to mark the occasion...

Secret 7 @ Pick Me Up 2014

A few weeks ago I went along to the Pick Me Up 2014 at Somerset House. Billed as "the UK’s original contemporary graphic arts festival", I thought that the selection of international artists included in the main exhibition was a lot stronger than in recent years and had a good time at the show. The day I was there, there was a workshop with Secret 7 inviting people to create a record sleeve design based on a selection of seven songs. I decided to join in and produced a sleeve for Ghost Town by The Specials...

Happy Birthday Chantel!

It was my friend Chantel's birthday the other week, and she finally got around to celebrating this past weekend. Here's the card I made for her, featuring her ever-changing hair colour...



And here's an animated gif I made of the card in action...

24 Hours to Go Broke

As part of the online promotion for their new show 24 Hours To Go Broke which started tonight, the TV channel Dave were running a Twitter competition today to create an advert for the show, with the chance to win cash prizes up to £50. As I had an hour to spare, I decided to give it a go and produced the following poster...



And I won 50 quid! :)

Happy Birthday Anna!

It was my friend Anna's birthday the other day and tonight we went out for drinks to celebrate. Anna's done quite a lot of knitting projects recently, so I drew her a card with a knitted version of Anna...



And she was wearing the actual outfit I drew her in!!!

"Monsieur! Non!" T-Shirt

A few months back my illustration was selected as the winning entry for the South London Hardcore podcast's "MONSIEUR! NON!" T-shirt Competition to design a t-shirt to commemorate Lakisha's apocryphal story about Jack embarrassing himself whilst buying a crepe in Paris. You can listen to the original story here:



And this is my winning illustration...



And even more excitingly, you can now order my t-shirt online from http://southlondonhardcore.spreadshirt.co.uk/ along with other South London Hardcore t-shirts.



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