This is really one of my personal favourites. After I'd done the Old Vic Tunnels piece, I definitely wanted to have another go at integrating my illustrations with my photography. This is the photo I ended up using, after one of my many trips to Brick Lane. I think it was one of a few I'd considered, but I found it worked best with the characters, and it's a great piece. I definitely had a few influences with the female character, mostly from Marvel. By now, everyone knows th

I think this was the last picture I made before I left London for Sydney. L'ete had made me feel that my Art Nouveau / robot idea was a good one, but I didn't think I'd completely nailed it. When I found this Paul Emile Berthon image, I knew it would be a better image to appropriate, as all of the framing and decoration had great potential for being updated. Also, it's just a fantastic image. This was, as you can imagine, a very long pencilling stage. I really wanted to appro

This week's flashback is another piece that ended up being the first in a series, Portals in this case. I remember just wanting to have a go at a traditional superhero image, so we ended up with this Man-Who-May-Or-May-Not-Be-Super, probably influenced by M.D. Bright's version of Milestone's Icon. With all the androids and cyborgs I'd been drawing, it made sense for his opponent to be robotic. I'm happy with the pencilling, apart from the superhero's right leg. I think I got

Hi, I'm back! Been away for a while, becoming a dad (life keeps offering distractions like that), but now I'm getting back to work. This was a bit of warm-up exercise, and it came from a course I'm doing as part of my day-job, where I'm getting certification for my Learning Support work. We were asked to make an image that reflected on our culture. It was just meant to be a quick A4 image, but, well... I needed to get my drawing muscles going, so this was what came out: Now,

This essay originally appeared on Carabas on March 11th 2016. I love street art. I always used to look forward to the pages near the back of Hip-Hop Connection (HHC) magazine, where they’d show pieces from around the UK. When I started getting more into photography, I started visiting places like Shoreditch,and particularly up and around Brick Lane. Those are areas that take a more relaxed view of graf, so artists are able to take their time, and express themselves more. It’s

Now that it's getting close to Christmas, we're all thinking about the bits and pieces we need to get. We're all going to need at least a couple of Christmas cards. We all know there's some bad Christmas cards out there. We've all been given some, and, let's be honest, at times we've all given some. Well, 'tis the season, and I'd like to help, with some alternative designs that should be pretty devoid of saccharine and schmaltz, while still being seasonal. All of these design