Mucking about with Illustrator - Silhouettes

Despite the lovely hot weather over the weekend just gone, for some reason I decided to stay indoors and have a play with Illustrator. These are the results.

Thoughts on HS2

I'm kind of sat on the fence about HS2, modern development, faster communication, good for the economy blah blah blah. But in social terms, who will it actually benefit? And in environmental terms, it's going to carve open ancient woodland and once that has gone, you'll never get it back.

Book cover. Maybe...

This is a design for a book cover but I don't know what the book is called and I'm not sure what it's about. The brief was 'magpies' and 'seven'. This might not get used but here it is anyway....

101 Architectural treats of the A1

I look forward to this book being published. Most of the pictures will be photographs but one or two will be illustrations. Here is my input, Torness Nuclear power station:

Old Harry's Game

I love Radio 4. It's the illustrator's friend and I listen to it lots. Except You and Yours. Oh and Any Answers? where the Daily Mail has the cheek to telephone Radio 4. One of the highlights of Radio 4 is the comedy and Andy Hamilton's Old Harry's Game for some reason provokes strong images. Probably all the torture, hellfire and damnation.....

Murder in the woods

This is a cover for a book about a popular but notorious childhood game. The object of the game was to trespass on the land belonging to and avoid the clutches of, a pair of wob-eyed inbred siblings that lived on the edge of the wood. The game gained notoriety after a number of children disappeared....

The Pope

The Mezzotint

I read a weird story the other night in bed called The Mezzotint. It is from a collection of ghost stories by M.R James. The next morning I woke up and this picture was beside me.....

The dark wood

Woods

This picture and map (next post) are part of The White Ghost story which can be found in the comics section on my website (ignore the font on the comic, I never could get it right)

The Thunderstorm

This is a vingette from a book that I haven't written yet. Thought I would share it nonetheless.

Happy New Year?

This idea has been gnawing at the back of my head for sometime and I have just got round to doing it. 

I have been reading some stuff lately that has confirmed what I knew already about the Nasty Party and thought it time I got this out. Happy New Year indeed. 

*If you're not sure what the volume reference is about look here. IDS is a tool. A grade one nasty tool.