A collection of images from my sketchbook (including digital images created using the iPad Pro) and some 'work in progress' shots to show a little more of my thought and image processes, as well as developing styles.

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Playing with making something colourful! Organic, hand created inky elements, made into crisp vector artwork in Illustrator, whilst being careful to retain some of the hand-crafted feel

Playing with making something colourful! Organic, hand created inky elements, made into crisp vector artwork in Illustrator, whilst being careful to retain some of the hand-crafted feel

Playing with shapes, colour and texture. Shapes derived from offcut paper - basically the bits left from where I’ve cut shapes for use in other projects…

I photographed the cut paper which is effectively like a stencil, converted it to vectors and then had fun making compositions in Illustrator from overlapping some of the various pieces. I’ve also added in some other patterns, textures and drawn bits I’ve been working on recently…

These are just experiments really, quite abstract and not of anything in particular, although with a potential map application in mind… 

Playing with some textures, patterns and shapes. A combination of ink lines, doodles and squiggles along with some general mark making and cut paper shapes… All made into vectors and brought into Illustrator. I then had some fun making patterns from the various elements, before piecing these together as a little test.

Fun Alphabet, based on cut paper shapes

Fun Alphabet, based on cut paper shapes

‘The Self-isolation Shuffle’. Created at the start of the UK lockdown due to COVID-19, 2020

‘The Self-isolation Shuffle’. Created at the start of the UK lockdown due to COVID-19, 2020

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Orange random character sketchbook page

Orange random character sketchbook page

People doodles…

People doodles…

‘Percolate’. I really like working like this, with simple shapes and overlapping colours….

‘Percolate’. I really like working like this, with simple shapes and overlapping colours….

Sketchbook doodles, layered up on Procreate

Hop - Skip - Jump …Playing around with simple shapes and colour

Some illustrations of buildings around Thornbury, the little town where I live just north of Bristol, created on the iPad using Procreate

I love a bit of fluoro paint! Doodle faces…

I love a bit of fluoro paint! Doodle faces…

Abstract composition - coloured tape and freehand cut circles

Abstract composition - coloured tape and freehand cut circles

Cuttin ‘n stickin’… Character play in the sketchbook, using cut paper shapes

Cuttin ‘n stickin’… Character play in the sketchbook, using cut paper shapes

I’ve recently started running. I’ve also started illustrating some of the things I see while I’m out - Pictured above is what I’ve drawn so far #ISpyWhileRunning

This was an experiment. A Colour/shape/painty landscape thing. Acrylic and graphite on plywood, 15cm x 15cm. Fun to do, I’d quite like to find time to do more of this kind of thing.

This was an experiment. A Colour/shape/painty landscape thing. Acrylic and graphite on plywood, 15cm x 15cm. Fun to do, I’d quite like to find time to do more of this kind of thing.

Sketch for a commissioned piece which took a slightly different direction

Sketch for a commissioned piece which took a slightly different direction

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3 colour Sharpie character doodles.

3 colour Sharpie character doodles.

Minty

Minty

Four-legged character doodles

Four-legged character doodles

Geo Fish

Geo Fish

Above: Some textures created with brush and ink, to add as surface detail in a mural art piece I created for Rutherford Cancer Centres. The textures were photographed, converted to vectors and coloured digitally. See if you can spot them in the completed artwork here

Edgy Bird

Edgy Bird

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People Doodlin'... on Procreate

Meet the Lemonheads....

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Multi Storey Block Dudes

Multi Storey Block Dudes

Elf
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Abstract Paper Shapes

Cut paper shapes used as source materials to create an abstract piece around the idea of ' a collection of things from the beach'. The image below was worked up on the iPad Pro using Procreate.

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Doodle Catz

Doodle Catz

Enjoying playing with simple shapes, using Procreate on the iPad Pro...

Bird

Bird

Three Guys...

Three Guys...

The next couple of images were done on the iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil and Adobe Draw. Some quick character drawings, playing about with the different brushes. I really like the fact that anything drawn in Adobe Draw is vector... This will be great for me creating vector elements to take over to the Mac and use in Adobe Illustrator. 

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These are sketchbook pages done whilst on holiday in Crete, with a minimal kit of pens, Sharpies & some Washi tape....

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Character play on iPad Pro... my first go at using the Procreate App. Fun applying a similar approach/aesthetic as the characters I created recently, using acrylics on wood (scroll down to see those...)

Character play on iPad Pro... my first go at using the Procreate App. Fun applying a similar approach/aesthetic as the characters I created recently, using acrylics on wood (scroll down to see those...)

Posca Doodle Dude and Dudette....

Queue. People doodle. Not sure what they're waiting for...

Queue. People doodle. Not sure what they're waiting for...

People doodle

'Sven' - Acrylic on plywood. 

Working on developing a new character style, based around simple shapes and overlaying colours. An approach that could easily translate into my digital work. I like the organic nature of shapes created by hand though...

Painty character play. Experimenting with paint and shapes, 15cm x 15cm, acrylic paint on plywood

Painty character play. Experimenting with paint and shapes, 15cm x 15cm, acrylic paint on plywood

'Olga'

Doodle faces

Doodle faces

You ain't seen me...

You ain't seen me...

Washi tape and paper doodlebugs

Washi tape and paper doodlebugs

Mix 'n' match characters... with cut paper shapes and Posca pen >

Little Blue faces

Little Blue faces

Some flower elements, to be scanned and made into vectors. These were coloured and composited together digitally to form the basis of a new brand identity for a gardening business.

Some flower elements, to be scanned and made into vectors. These were coloured and composited together digitally to form the basis of a new brand identity for a gardening business.

People doodle. Afro Shower Caps?

People doodle. Afro Shower Caps?

Cut paper trees.

Cut paper trees.

Colour Wheel

Colour Wheel

...& riding those colour wheels

...& riding those colour wheels

Some quick portrait practice, for some live drawing sessions I'm doing for a client as part of a bigger project. More on this to come!

Some quick portrait practice, for some live drawing sessions I'm doing for a client as part of a bigger project. More on this to come!

A week of hand drawn letters. Days of the week M to S, when it got to Sunday I didn't feel like doing another S, so did Z instead....  Zzz-unday, the day of rest :-)

Doodle bike stack

Budgie Jumping. I love it when little ideas come out of me completely mis-hearing what my kids are talking about...

Budgie Jumping. I love it when little ideas come out of me completely mis-hearing what my kids are talking about...

Stampy Number Face. Having some fun with some old pricing/number stamps.

Stampy Number Face. Having some fun with some old pricing/number stamps.

Pattern Doodle, using some felt tips that are just on the edge of running out!

Pattern Doodle, using some felt tips that are just on the edge of running out!

Face doodle (with the same 'about to run out' old felt-tips)

Face doodle (with the same 'about to run out' old felt-tips)

Love D'uck

Love D'uck

Character play, Muppets inspired

Character play, Muppets inspired

Neapolitan Metropolis. Ice cream colour cityscape

Emergency

Pink Versus Grey

Pink Versus Grey

Arrow Doodle
Sketchbook bugs. Cut paper shapes and pen.

Sketchbook bugs. Cut paper shapes and pen.

Some people doodles...

Some people doodles...

Interested in drawing with shapes (cut from coloured paper) and adding detail with simple pen lines. I like the feel of these with a minimal colour palette. Reckon the style could easily translate to my vector work.

Posca pen on a small block of wood.

Posca pen on a small block of wood.

Some tree elements created for a client illustration piece. I quite liked them laid out like this.

Some tree elements created for a client illustration piece. I quite liked them laid out like this.

Crazy shape doodle pattern

Crazy shape doodle pattern

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