works in progress

Here are a few things I'm working on, portrait of French writer Victor Hugo and more landscapes/trees.  

sketchbook

A little selection from my sketchbook drawings, working towards some new prints for winter.

Autumn drawings

Here are some of the drawings I've been doing for my Autumn piece, as you can see its a bit all over the place at the minute, I'm still deciding what the image is going to be of. 

work in progress

Working on a new print of the Horniman Museum, looking forward to printing. 

Ink drawings

Couple of the best pages from my sketchbook on my new series of prints.

Upcoming Illustration for DG

Here are a few action shots of my print process for Delayed Gratifications new set of illustrations. Finals can be seen above.

Collages

Here are some collages made from the ink mark marking experiments I made at the start of my LPS new graduate award. I really like them as landscapes but to incorperate them into the story I have also edited them with some of my drawings in photoshop to make them into my backdrops for the Chang'e story. They are mostly inspired by the story and by the Chinese landscape in Guilin. 

Ink experiments

Belated update on work I've been doing for my New Graduate Award at the londonprintstudio. It took me a while to photograph these properly but over the past couple of months, I have concentrated my time on developing my drawing style and freeing up my way of working by creating more large scale experimental and expressive painting with inks and charcoal. I was asked to explore every mark I could possibly make and in this way I hoped to break from my small-scale drawings and the limitations of this kind of work. For inspiration I looked at contemporary Chinese woodcuts and tried to create mark-making work in light of their techniques. So here are just a few shots of the large scale work.

Some belated posts

Sorry haven't posted for a while, here are some posts I've been meaning to put up for a long time. These are some of my ink drawings in preparation of a woodcut workshop at london print studio as part of my new graduate award scheme. I was asked to really experiment with my line work and get a bit looser in my drawing style. I was recently inspired by a chinese story about a hero shooting down 10 suns from atop a mountain, so I've been really interested in drawing mountains and suns from imagination and relying on expressive marks to denote the contours and roughness of the rock face and bleeding inks to represent the suns rays.  

Ink

I like this one. prep for my next few linos

Work in Development part 2

I've been working on a new project recently illustrating some of my favourite poems, my recent one has been about E. E. Cumming's "it is moments after I have dreamed". Here are a few progress pictures for you, just trying to get the atmosphere right. Hopefully have a Linocut done in a day or so and then I'll start work on John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" cos you cant go wrong with a few of the classics.