Neil Buchanan was double-booked

My hands were filmed drawing for a short animation recently. Stay tuned - there'll be something to show very soon!

DIY Ethics

Here's an illustration I did for Carl Prechezer's blog, accompanying his post all about doing-it-yourself. You can read it here.

Carry On Doctor

Here is a portrait of life coach Gino Peremans, founder of Fern training & coaching, as a 'team doctor' for his new blog.

One's Direction

I've been creating some illustrations for director Carl Prechezer's blog. He's the director & co-writer of cult classic surf film Blue Juice, starring Sean 'son of the third doctor' Pertwee, Catherine Zeta Jones (said in a Welsh accent - obviously) and the young Obi Wan Kenobi. Carl also directs a lot of commercials and promotional films. Check out Carl P's words of wisdom here on his blog.

Online Publication: Matter

I recently created some illustrations for online cultural publication Matter, to accompany an article about opportunist cyber-scammers. Matter post insightful articles about... lots of different things really, but what they all have in common is that they're worthy of the nominal charge. Certainly for when the Mail Online just won't cut it on your lunchbreak. You can read a preview, and see one of my illustrations, here...

Still thinking about hibernating?

Here's some technical illustrations of a range of mattresses I drew recently. I also annotated them all in Polish (well...that someone else supplied). Having worked in a bed shop over a decade ago I can still spot a Continental Queen from a mile off. 

Mabboo Mural

Here is the live art I created at the ECO Pop Up Shop at the weekend. The ECO team had a fun Saturday night launch party and needed some art for their walls. The shop is located on the top floor of The Galleries shopping centre, Bristol, and features Mabboo Bamboo T-shirts and products, and Aymo shoes and satchels. The mural features some Chinese, a  lucky cat, some bamboo, clouds, a sunburst, hot air balloons, the Clifton suspension bridge, and the SS Great Britain. If you're in Bristol go take a look! Thans to Ed and the Aymo team, (and special thanks to Sam for his help: his filling in was exemplary!).

Sweat Baby Sweat

You can now get a sweatshirt featuring my winning Brighton Skateboards Tee design. The two-colour design is on a grey marl crew neck sweater. Perfect for this barmy weather yeah? Order it here.

Postcards To Alphaville

I'm a big fan of the Postcards To Alphaville website, a site dedicated to illustrations of people's film character crushes. Some of my faves are Pris from Blade Runner, Bob from Lost in Translation, and Phil Seymour Hoffman's creepy guy from Happiness. Inspired by the site, I created this illustration of Enid from Ghost World. Don't judge me...

Movember portraits

Here are some of the portraits I've been doing to raise money for bloke cancer charities as part of Movember over at Gallery of Mo. There's still time to get your portrait done in exchange for a donation. Here's my page.

Eye Candy Festival

Here's my contribution to the 12 x 12 project for the Eye Candy Festival of visual culture in Birmingham. Different artists and illustrators from around the country were given a record sleeve to customise, based on an album cover by a Birmingham musician or band.

I chose Broadcast's Tender Buttons, featuring the late great Trish Keenan on the front. They're all being auctioned to raise money for charity Oxjam Brum, and are on display in Le Truc, Birmingham.

Gallery of MOvember

I'm one of about 100 artists taking part in the Gallery of Mo this year, an artist project running alongside the regular moustache-growing-competition-for-charity

We'll be drawing portraits of people, and adding facial hair where necessary, in return for donations to the related charities. It is my way of being able to raise charity without having to endure hormone replacement therapy to grow something that looks anything more than mere dirt along my top lip within 28 days.

So if you want to be drawn "be'tached" you know where to come. Check out my artist page here, and the other participating artists here.

Hanover Playgroup

Did this little poster for a friend recently - it can be seen all over Muesli Mountain. I'm gonna go one day, and make sure no-one's hogging all the Lego.

Vanity Project...?

Here's a poster I did for a group of DJs calling themselves "The Gentlemens Vanity Project" - with blank spaces for them to scrawl the line-up and venue of their next exciting instalment... Hopefully the Preacherman makes an appearance.

hellohead at Cargo

The hellohead exhibition is taking place at Cargo on the evening of Wednesday 22 August. You can see a portrait of me at my most crazy, and my portrait of Simon Tozer. Hope to see you there!

hellohead

Really enjoyed getting involved in hellohead earlier this year. Illustrators from across the UK have been paired up to draw one another, with an auction at the end to raise money for the National Autistic Society. See my portrait of Simon Tozer, and Simon Tozer's portrait of me on the hellohead site

How's My Grilling?

Coming to a festival near you this summer: the Blas Burgerworks Street van! The St Ives-based burger restaurant, revered for its organic ingredients, locally-sourced produce, sustainable credentials (and most-importantly tasty burgers) is going on the road this summer. They asked me to put together a design for the 'Blasmobile', which was unveiled last weekend at the Golowan Festival, Penzance, and the Quay Fair day. The design was very kindly artworked onto the van by the good people at Signs Express, Exeter. All this thinking about Blas Burgers is making me hungry. Cornish Blue Cheeseburger please. I wonder if they'll deliver to Brighton...(picks up phone)...

In their own words: 3.5 tonnes of burger love coming your way! Follow Marie, Sally, Lisa and the team's antics here, here and here ! Phew!

Phoenix Magazine

Here's an illustration I did for Phoenix Magazine this month, about eccentric British characters...in their underwear. You had to be there...

Create in Brighton

Was shortlisted and went on to win the Create in Brighton imagery competition recently, run by Frank PR, Drink In Brighton and sponsored by Tiger Beer. It was a complete surprise after seeing the high standard of work, especially in photography and illustration. A massive thanks to everyone who voted for the work on Facebook, and to the judges Lomokev, Lawrence Zeegen and Sarah Arnett. Hopefully it returns again next year!

Watership High

Following on from the Blas panorama, I recently painted a mural in a toddler's bedroom, with a lot of help from The Alice! Here's some shots of the woodland scene that covered the two bright yellow walls, including: hedgehogs, worms, mushrooms, bunting, spiders, squirrels, diggers, clouds, planes, hot air balloons, kites, trees grass and birds ... phew! The birds are very happy - not angry FYI.