San Francisco Friend Artwork

Apologies it's been a long long time since I last posted/added any new artwork to my website, been quite busy over the summer so far with various things.

The following is a piece I have done for a really good friend of mine who yesterday moved to San Francisco, California, in the USA. Another one of my friends Fleur Terry whom is studying Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design BA at Leeds College of Art helped me make the piece, drawing the Tropicana & Alacatraz pieces whilst also helping with many decisions in the piece :)


So yeah here it is...

Robot Me.

This piece is done along with other illustrators in my class for a secret reason currently ;) Will update this post at a later date with the reasoning behind it but yeah, here is my interpretation of me as a robot...

Many influences in it from old retro toy robots, film/TV robots & various aspects of technology.

Great fun to do!

Freddie Mercury Sketch

Basically it's just what it says it is :) Fancied drawing something & the legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was the outcome.

British Wildlife Postcards; River Birds - Kingfisher

I have decided to put upon myself a task to create a series of postcards based upon British Wildlife, be it butterflies, small mammals, amphibians/reptiles, river birds etc etc :)
Started with river birds & I aim to do five animals for each set as such, so for River Birds it shall be; Kingfisher, Swan, Mallard, Moorhen & Heron.

The following is the first of those five, the Common (Eurasian) Kingfisher with it's brightly coloured orange & blue feathers.

Gone for a nostalgic 70's feel with the colour scheme / textures / floral patterns & such like. Hope people like it! The floral pattern brushes were given to me on file by a friend & in all honesty I have no idea where they came from to give credit to the creator, apologies :S

Will most likely attempt the Heron one next over the next few days.

Mermaid

Done this piece to exhibit at my exhibition for college & possibly New Designer's in London. Very much inspired by the latest Pirates of the Caribbean; On Stranger Tides & the concept art for the mermaids. Couple of people have also said it looks like the strange creatures in the Harry Potter films in Hogwarts Lake, to which I definitely cannot disagree lol

Used a mixture of line art illustration, digital colouring & photo manipulation to create the piece.

Book Covers + Poster Finished

After a couple of months of work & a killer couple of days due to me leaving my sketchbook til last minute here is the final artwork for all the book covers & the Life of Pi poster :)

In alphabetical order...

Life of Pi - Coloured Line

Here is the line art for the Life of Pi piece, done in a more minimalistic way :)
Will upload the actual book cover shortly!

Postcards...

Here are the two designs for each side of the postcard I plan on using for New Designers in approxiametely 2 months :S

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Line Sketch

Decided to draw something & that something ended up being Dwayne Johnson also known as The Rock (wrestler) from Fast & Furious 5 (Fast Five) the new film in the series of racing films. Dwayne plays prettttty much the most awesome Special Agent ever lol.

Anyways here is my sketch, the fingers/hands could be better but quite pleased with it :)

Titus Groan & Life of Pi Sketches/Line Art

Here are two new pieces, one being part of the line art for an upcoming FMP piece - Mervyn Peake's 'Titus Groan', featuring a rather inquisitive (and eventually) evil looking owl, and the other being my sketch or plan for Yann Martel's 'Life of Pi'. There will be rather a lot of change between the images now & the final outcome but hopefully I shall get both done by the end of tomorrow! :)
Best get on it really...

ANOTHER possible postcard design?! - Joker Line

... still undecided as to what I am going to use on just one side of my postcard for New Designers this coming summer, god knows what to put on the other side, ahh well.

But yeah features just the line art with additional red colouring, be it blood but I like to think of it as ink splats :)

The white surrounding the image (in certain areas) is the bleed.

Birdsong Book Cover (+ 3,000 Page Views :D)

Here is the 6th book cover I have done so far for my Final Major Project (FMP) at University :) This is Sebastian Faulks' - Birdsong which follows a man by the name of Stephen Wraysford before & during the first world war and it sets in both France & England.

I have gone with the idea of loss & a battlefield due to the obvious war elements, but there is also a main story of love, so added a lovebird to represent said emotion, making the lovebird quite prominent & colourful.

Also I'd just like to say thank you to all those whom have taken the time to stop by my blog, can't really believe I've somehow got 3,000 pageviews?! :D

Thanks again!

Tom

Birdy Book Cover

Here is another book cover for my FMP, being that of William Wharton's - Birdy, which is a story of a damaged soldier based in & around the second World War. Eventually leading to the main character becoming mentally ill & obsessive about birds (in a nutshell :P)

Hope people like it anyways, and there is as always room for improvement with any suggestions?!

:)

Revised 'Call of The Wild' Cover

Here is an updated version of the Call of the Wild book cover done for my FMP :)

Revised 'The Dice Man' Cover

Just as the title suggests :)...well I just cleared a few things up, moved bits about & such like. Much more pleased with this version anyways.

Self Portrait Poster

The following is a self portrait piece, featuring some of my interests, such as;
Art (colour), Travelling (globe/map), Favourite animal (rhino), Music (earphones), Favourite colour (green), Video games (controller buttons) & Favourite holiday (cross on Kenya) .... well there's no way of telling all of that from just looking at it but hey-ho, hope people like my somewhat graphical collage?! :D

Added the PNG, minus the border & info text :)

 

 

Another possible postcard Design :)

Done a new postcard design for the postcards I plan to have for my exhibitions :)

Featuring an older illustration of a lion fish, done in ink.

Call Of The Wild Cover - FMP Piece

Yet another book cover as part of my FMP, this one being Jack London's 'Call Of The Wild'. I have chosen to Illustrate the traditional idea of a wolf howling at the moon, this wolf actually being Buck the main protagonist a St. Bernard & Border Collie (I believe) crossbred.

The man in the sky/moon is one of the Alaskan hunters whom kill Buck's owner, to which then spurs Buck to go on a search to avenge his owner.

Really pleased with this piece, but always room for improvement of course :)

Giant Panda Sketches

In all honesty I have no idea why I felt like drawing giant pandas...but I did & here they are :)

Lord of The Flies Book Cover (w.i.p.)

Here is pretty much just the line art for an upcoming cover as part of my FMP.
This one being that of Lord of the Flies by William Golding :)

Played on the idea of the wild boar or monster (as the boys in the book see it) as being the King or Lord they see it to be, so the literal lord of the flies.

Quite pleased with this so far :D ... Now to colour & make it an actual book cover!