Monday, 26 September 2011
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Axon
This little guy is a submission for a comic/book job. Im gonna make two more images using characters owned by the potential employer and see if they like me.
Friday, 23 September 2011
Portfolio
I thought it was time to refresh the portfolio, include a few bits I have done more recently.
Editorial
Graphic Design
Graphic Novel
Picture Book
Below spread from a collaborative project with Joseph Fells
Storyboards
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Friday, 9 September 2011
TOP 5 for Uni Qlo tee competition
So these are my top 5 roughs, thinking I might put up a poll and see how it fares overnight to make a decision tomorrow on a final design...
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Coke UT 2011 first bunch of roughs UPDATED with black shirts
Coke are doing a competition with Uni Qlo to design a tee with the theme of... Coke!
Pretty self explanatory. I was hoping to get all 20 roughs done by now, but I gotta pop out to meet a friend, so the last two will be done later today.
Pretty self explanatory. I was hoping to get all 20 roughs done by now, but I gotta pop out to meet a friend, so the last two will be done later today.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Book Review: Vertigo Tarot
Decided I would try and do a few reviews in my spare time...
The Vertigo Tarot
Art: Dave McKean
Words: Rachel Pollack
Book and Tarot card box set.
To be clear, I will break this review in to two parts - firstly a review of the cards, secondly a review of the book.
Tarot Cards
The deck provided is a full tarot deck with art by the famous illustrator/comic book artist Dave McKean (Of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Mr Punch fame). Each cards face is unique, whilst the back of each glossy card is the same throughout (see: picture ten, first card on the right).
Tarot Decks are divided in to two halves - the 22-card Major Arcana and the 56-card Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana are the trump cards, each one with a unique character and symbolism (As you can see in the pictures, Zero is the Fool, Eighteen is the Moon etc), whilst the Minor Arcana are more similar to a traditional deck of cards, divided in to four 'suits' of Wands, Pentacles, Cups and Swords, and are numbered Ace-Ten, then a Page, Knight, Queen and King.
Being a Dave McKean fan I can say this is a beautiful collection of his art, and it is through the Major Arcana that we really get to see McKean's genius. Sadly for the Minor Arcana, you merely get pictures of Three Wands and then Four Wands and then Five Wands etc. - still, whilst the imagery is very similar, at least McKean kept the quality of each Minor Arcana design high.
As said though, the Major Arcana is where the real beauty lies. Many cards make use of DC Vertigo characters (such as John Constantine as the Fool, Death (from Sandman) as Death etc) and each Major design is unique and exciting.
The Book
The first part of the book has an introduction by author Neil Gaiman, whilst throughout the book there are black and white pictures from the deck partnered with a card description by Rachel Pollack.
Gaiman's introduction gives an interesting history on the Vertigo Tarot project, and Rachel Pollacks description of each card is two fold - firstly, the cards actual meaning, secondly, the character-specific meaning. Whilst I have not read the whole book, I have no reason to doubt that Pollack gave each card's description the same care and attention.
Final Thought
Overall a very nice piece for £22-ish. Whilst I was slightly disappointed that the cards are a little thin and have dinks from where they were cut at the printers, thus making them pretty useless as a working tarot deck, the art is still fantastic and if viewed as a piece of art, stands up against similar 'Themed' art books by other artists.
The Vertigo Tarot
Art: Dave McKean
Words: Rachel Pollack
Book and Tarot card box set.
- Page Count: 128 pages, 78 cards
- Publisher: Vertigo; Pap/Crds edition (2 Dec 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1401220428
- ISBN-13: 978-1401220426
- Product Dimensions: 16 x 4.6 x 22.5 cm
To be clear, I will break this review in to two parts - firstly a review of the cards, secondly a review of the book.
Tarot Cards
The deck provided is a full tarot deck with art by the famous illustrator/comic book artist Dave McKean (Of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Mr Punch fame). Each cards face is unique, whilst the back of each glossy card is the same throughout (see: picture ten, first card on the right).
Tarot Decks are divided in to two halves - the 22-card Major Arcana and the 56-card Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana are the trump cards, each one with a unique character and symbolism (As you can see in the pictures, Zero is the Fool, Eighteen is the Moon etc), whilst the Minor Arcana are more similar to a traditional deck of cards, divided in to four 'suits' of Wands, Pentacles, Cups and Swords, and are numbered Ace-Ten, then a Page, Knight, Queen and King.
Being a Dave McKean fan I can say this is a beautiful collection of his art, and it is through the Major Arcana that we really get to see McKean's genius. Sadly for the Minor Arcana, you merely get pictures of Three Wands and then Four Wands and then Five Wands etc. - still, whilst the imagery is very similar, at least McKean kept the quality of each Minor Arcana design high.
As said though, the Major Arcana is where the real beauty lies. Many cards make use of DC Vertigo characters (such as John Constantine as the Fool, Death (from Sandman) as Death etc) and each Major design is unique and exciting.
The Book
The first part of the book has an introduction by author Neil Gaiman, whilst throughout the book there are black and white pictures from the deck partnered with a card description by Rachel Pollack.
Gaiman's introduction gives an interesting history on the Vertigo Tarot project, and Rachel Pollacks description of each card is two fold - firstly, the cards actual meaning, secondly, the character-specific meaning. Whilst I have not read the whole book, I have no reason to doubt that Pollack gave each card's description the same care and attention.
Final Thought
Overall a very nice piece for £22-ish. Whilst I was slightly disappointed that the cards are a little thin and have dinks from where they were cut at the printers, thus making them pretty useless as a working tarot deck, the art is still fantastic and if viewed as a piece of art, stands up against similar 'Themed' art books by other artists.
Monday, 22 August 2011
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