UVA / UVB

This is an old drawing from 2003, which I've just given a fresh coat of paint to (i.e. added colour). I'd already shaded it in grey, so I've added colour in a way that will still show this texture underneath. It was from an advert for sunglasses in case you can't guess (which ones, I'm not sure).

Furcateboard

This was the first illustration I decided to spend some serious time and effort on (which ended up being around 3 months in my spare time during 2005). The main reason for this was my choice of pen, namely a Rotring Rapidograph with 0.1mm nib. Despite the hardship, this is still my pen of choice!


Furcateboard, 2005



Furcateboard (detail), 2005

Women and Nanotechnology

This illustration juxtaposes scantily-clad women with real and imagined pieces of nanotechnology. Will future technologies continue to advance alongside pornography, such as they already have on the internet and in print?


Women and Nanotechnology

Wilde Thing

This was the first illustration I submitted to Le Gun magazine, and also the first failed attempt at having an illustration published in Le Gun magazine. The theme was 'France', so I drew Oscar Wilde's tomb from the Pere Lachaise cemetery (also final resting place to Jim Morrison). The text at the bottom relates a story I heard when I visited.


Wilde Thing

Hirst in Reverse

My second attempt at getting something published in the illustration magazine Le Gun (my first being Wilde Thing). The theme for the issue was 'The Sea', hence my witty attempt at reversing the scene from Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (or The Shark in the Tank, as most people know it). It didn't get published.


Hirst in Reverse

Mycro

This is an A5 page from my sketchbook I started doodling on in 2005 (I think). My aim was to fill the entire page, which I've still not managed to do. Every now and again I still add to it, with random ideas or memories of things (which is where the name 'Mycro' derives from. That, and the fact the actual drawings are pretty tiny).


Mycro

Blue Hotel

The view from my bed in a hotel room in San Francisco, Summer 2006, the start-point for a road trip to San Diego. Chris Isaak's 'Blue Hotel' formed part of the soundtrack to the trip and it seemed to work well as the concept for this illustration in that the pair of trousers slumped over the chair look rather seedy (therefore making this a blue hotel in itself).


Blue Hotel

Pecked

An older image from late 2004/early 2005. I remember having the idea for this in a semi-daze when I decided what an unpleasant experience this would be. I like the fact that the man (who isn't meant to be me by the way, despite various comments) seems unfazed by the whole thing.


Pecked

The Barbican

An illustration of the Barbican, drawn in October 2007. Colouring is work-in-progress.


The Barbican

Three Men in a Boat

In August 2007, two friends and I recreated the journey described in Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 comic novel, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Over the course of a week, we rowed (albeit in the wrong direction to that in the book due to high currents) from Oxford to London in a 120 year old double-skulling skiff named Clare.

I kept an illustrated diary of the trip, and have included some work-in-progress sections here (I plan at some point in the next half-century to colour them all and generally tidy everything up).


'Clare'



Sample pages showing preparation for the trip



James, one of the other men, and an elaborate contraption used simultaneously to provide illumination and to dry trunks