Last year I was commissioned by the Museum of London to produce a series of illustrations as a visual identity for a new exhibition to coincide with the Olympics called ‘Our Londinium 2012′. They asked me to adapt my doodle style to incorporate modern day and roman objects to build a larger final image. The objects that would make up the final image were all chosen by the museum’s youth panel ‘Junction’. The same panel that chose the doodle style for the exhibition! (Cheers guys!). From the very start the nickname ‘The Doodlist’ was given to me, think it might catch on!
The illustrations will be used for the marketing and internal displays of the exhibition which runs from 22 June 2012 until 2014. I thoroughly enjoyed working on this project and meeting the panel that have helped organise it all. Can’t wait to see it all come together!
More info: “The Museum of London is working with young people and artists over two years to create bold and imaginative installations in its popular Roman Gallery and other key spaces in 2012.The project will feature new sculptures, creative films, animations and sound, witty and thought-provoking insertions of contemporary objects, drama performances, Latin-inspired poetry slamming and other exciting events…”
A recent article on the guardian website talks to the Junction panel, read here
Over at http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/ they offer a blank t-shirt for avid doodlers to fill with their own thoughts and ideas… and simply their doodles. I thought it was a cracking idea to try out seeing what my illustrations would look like on a white t-shirt so gave it a go. The finished shirt is pictured below… I kinda cocked up the display of my name but the rest should make up for that error! This was all done straight onto the shirt with pen.
Last year I got invited to design a t-shirt for The Salvation Army, from what I’ve heard it’s raised a lot of money so far which is fantastic news and I recently got shown this photo of a group of Aussies going to Kenya and Fiji wearing my shirt along with other designs from M. Brady Clark and Neighborhood Studio
Reddie & Grose approached me a few months ago to design them their annual christmas calendar which would be sent worldwide to their clients as a gift. They wanted something similar to my usual illustrative style but obviously christmassy. I went ahead and designed pattern-like images that fitted together. I started off using their colour palette provided and eventually stripped it right back to basic line work. Illustrations and photos of finished product below…
Over the summer I got asked by the fantastic ‘Do the Green Thing‘ to realise their logo in my style. (http://www.dothegreenthing.com). DTGT is a sort of service that suggests creative and better ways to be more green in life but with a bit more fun. They have a cracking mascot of a creature that they asked me to reproduce in my detailed style but with a twist… the idea was to build up the monster with fruit and veg; a nice development of my illustration style. The final pieces are to be used as part of their ongoing videos at a later date. A few other artists have also been part of this recreating the logo in their own styles.
Some experimentation with size and bring the monster a bit more to life…
This is the monster recreated with my usual style…
Here are a couple of detailed shots of my large illustration from the exhibition. They are fairly large file sizes and Ive compressed them to the max but hey ho! Enjoy and tell me what you think!
On the 30th June (coincedentally my birthday) I will be participating in my final year exhibition at the London College of Communication as part of the Illustration pathway. It is an exhibition of the freshest and best talent ready to hit the design world and you’re all invited! It will run for a week so if you can’t make it to the private view then it will be up for a while.
In order to go to the Private View, please RSVP to [email protected]
After countless hours I reached a point I was happy to hand in my illustration for my final piece for uni. I still would like to complete it properly and add more detail for the whole thing but it’s pretty much there! Photos and a time-lapse are below:
This is a time lapse of a 4ft x 4ft illustration I did for a university project called ‘Imaginary Worlds’. It took me countless hours to finish and still needs more work but here is the progress so far!
This is part of a huge bad ass drawing I’m doing for uni. My back aches & I have blisters and around 15 hours left on it until its finished. Named after the song from the Lion King soundtrack which Im listening to as I draw…
For one of my uni projects I am creating a box set for a chosen band, I am doing mine on Pulled Apart by Horses. I wanted to created illustrations for a card set/poster that would be included. These are just some experimentation. They were all drawn in illustrator.
Below I combined their heads together to create an almost godlike figure…
