Here are some nice close-up pictures of the illustrations I did for Anorak. The boy is called Chester and his cat is Mojo.

I got so excited when I received my copy of the winter edition of Anorak magazine that I took some rather poor photographs of it. I illustrated a strange story by Josie Ballin about a boy travelling about in his imagination. There are deer with no eyes, a talking tree and an evil ticket inspector. It is a six pager, so it took quite a good deal of work to do. I will put some better pictures of this on my site when I get the time.

A hoi hoi, here’s an editorial illo for this months’ plan B magazine. It is about how modern children’s TV music is poo compared to old Bagpuss and the like.

Hi hi this is a drawing I did that is drawn with a pencil. He is towering in his basketry. This ain’t fashion.

Here’s more fighting. I’m not actually a violent type, I just wanted an excuse to draw some splinters flying about. This is a print of a pencil drawing. I am only happy with drawing with mechanical pencils nowadays. The chap on the right wins in the end, if you wanted to know.

I’ve been reading a book by Nicholas Guppy about exploring the Amazon rainforest called “Wai Wai: Through the forests North of the Amazon”. He went there mid way through the 20th century and studied the plants and trees. He spent a lot of time with various indigenous people there, including the Wai Wai. There are some great photographs in it and this is a kind of amalgamation of my favourite ones, turned in to a drawing. One is of a man eating a monkey head and the other is of a woman smiling. I will post them in the influences section of the blog soonish. I might colour this in and add some foliage…