Artwork created for spoof shooter ‘UCOB5:TRTBH‘ for Be broadband.
The player has to fight their way past terrorist cyborgs, The Cursed Army of the Damned and Hell’s Elite Super-Undead in order to reach Broadband Heaven!
The game was directed and produced by Simon Alexander at mN and coded by Mike Barrow and Malcolm Bailey of MBX games.
One of the main things I miss about working in an office is the cake.
Three of twenty illustrations produced for an ‘office bingo’ card for Virgin’s staff magazine ‘Roger’. The concept was devised and directed by Ian Pierce of John Brown Media.
You can see the whole card here…
I’ve always found the idea of ‘The End of the World’ kind of romantic. At least there’d be no school in the morning.
This illustration was comissioned by Plan B magazine to accompany their review of Current 93′s latest album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain.
You can see a larger version here.
Billy’s been playing on his console for so long he can no longer distinguish videogames from reality. His living room has fragmented into a multi-levelled game world full of luminous geometry and pixellated monsters! The only way to escape is to stop playing – by pulling the console’s plug from the wall.
Unplugger’s levels and characters were built in Flash using collaged imagery from classic videogames.
Click on the tape player to play…
Illustration to promote the ‘For the love of…’ event happening at the Zanzibar in Liverpool on the 28th. The design has to work across a variety of media – posters, t-shirts, badges, etc., so I created a set of elements that could easily be rearranged into different layouts. You can see examples of what I mean here…
The event is to raise money for c.a.l.m. As c.a.l.m. is a charity for young fellas I thought werewolves would be appropriate, as they are hairy and have bad table manners. I don’t know where the space kid came from.
Hannah, Sam and myself had a lot of fun drawing and playing music in town last Saturday. You can see a great film of it by documentary film-maker Tim Brunsden here.
Unfortunately, Hannah had lost her voice on Saturday, but you can hear the beautiful music she composed and see the little music box she plays in the film. Check out the punch paper she feeds through the music box – each hole punched by hand! To hear Hannah sing as well as play, visit her MySpace page…
I’m very flattered to have been invited to take part in Huzzah!!, a kind of comic art consequences where each member of a group of artists takes it in turn to draw a bit of the story. What makes it especially exciting/scary is that the other fellas are so talented, and that you only get three days to do your bit once you’ve thrown your hat in. This years theme is ‘Space Opera.’ Click on ‘The Story So Far…’ tab to see how the pages are shaping up.
The other artists involved are I. N. J. Culbard, Dan McDaid, Dave Taylor, D’Israeli, Faz Choudhury, Colin Fawcett, paulhd and Rob Davis.
Huzzah!! will run through till December the 31st.You can see last years comic ‘Who Killed Round Robin’ here.
Saturday night is the last night of Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture and there’s going to be all kinds of exciting things going on in the city centre.
Hannah Peel and myself will be taking our live music/drawing show out onto the street, along with video maestro Mr Sam Meech.
So if you’ve never seen a werewolf drawing to a live performance of Tainted Love played on a music box then now’s your chance!
Number 34 – Lanky Len
This spirit is associated with the substation at the Sefton Park end of Queens Drive, Liverpool.
Len likes eating discarded fag ends and licking cold curry sauce from styrofoam trays.
On Christmas Eve, locals leave him an offering of a McDonald’s Happy Meal and a can of Fosters. If this ritual is not observed, Len cuts off all the electricity for the surrounding area just before the Eastenders Christmas special.
I just found this in an old sketchbook. I don’t remember drawing it, but I guess I must have been having a pretty good day…
I’ll be joining Mercy to do some painting at Tate Liverpool this Saturday as part of their live art project ‘The Making‘. There’ll be poetry by Nathan Jones, music by Wave Machines, a posse of artists and illustrators and all kinds of AV voodoo going on courtesy of Sam Meech and Stuart Lancely. We’ll be there pretty much all day, so come along and say ‘hello’ or ‘what the bloody hell’s all this then?’
The above is a little concept doodle for Saturday.
‘Hercules’ is an exclusive sleeve design for makeamixa.com. MIXA is a USB cassette with 1 GB of storage and a sleeve which you can either design yourself, or dress up with an off the peg, ready to wear number. If you’d like to have the Hercules sleeve, just pick it out from the ‘pre-made’ tab when you’re makin’ your MIXA.
The illustration shows the second of the twelve labours of Hercules. For this labour Hercules had to slay the Lernaean Hydra. Although the provenance of the Hercules myth is still up for debate, historians generally agree that he wasn’t a cowboy dog.
