This piece really needs no explanation.

It’s Lego. It’s me. And a ridiculous frame.

If I had any Lego, I’d have done this using real pieces and photographed it.

T-shirt design that pays homage to Shepard Fairey’s OBEY GIANT and Homer, the greatest slacker ever.

Another scanned illustration from my old marker pen sketchpad, this time an original GameBoy. Illustration produced circa 1993 using Magic Markers and Rotring Isograph technical pen.

Illustration of a Commodore 64 joystick produced circa 1993 using Magic Markers and Rotring Isograph technical pen.

You know how sometimes, when you’re on the phone, you just start doodling on the pad in front of you. Well I pretty much do that every time I’m on the phone.

More often that not though, these doodles stay as forgotten scribblings in my pad. Except for today that is.

After a call to the tax office, I looked at the sketch I had done and thought “You my little fella, are getting the Vector Treatment!”

Why I was compelled to draw a ninja while on the phone to the taxman, your guess is as good as mine…

A set of illustrations produced circa 1993 using Magic Markers and Rotring Isograph technical pen.

Each month I ‘art direct’ an internet marketeer’s newsletter/magazine called Marketing Dot Com. When I say ‘art direct’, this is actually a fancy way of saying I design the content of the magazine.

How it goes is the magazine editor provides me with all the articles and I design/typeset them for the magazine – this includes sourcing any relevant imagery to accompany the articles.

More often than not, I like to produce these images myself, whether it be simple pen & ink drawings, crisp vector artwork or full-blown Photoshop and 3D renderings.

This month, the main article (which is carried on to the front cover) is about becoming a Super Affiliate. The editor and I decided to go down the route of using superhero-esque imagery for the article and cover, something really bold and vibrant. Seen as though I’m a proper comic book nerd, this is was a brief I really wanted to have a good go at. I certainly have lot of graphic knowledge to call on in this field.

While I was producing the cover ideas in Photoshop, it inspired me to produce a piece of artwork for myself. A self-promotional, experimental piece if you will. Personally, I think this would work really well as a large screen print.

Stupidly, had a bit of a nasty fall off my mountain bike last week and used my shoulder as a crash mat!! Still suffering now over a week later.

Felt like sharing my pain, graphically of course.

I recently logged on to my website to post a reply to a comment someone had left and noticed I hadn’t uploaded any new work in a while. Not good.

I therefore decided I needed to upload something. Anything.

Unfortunately, I haven’t completed many jobs recently. I seem to have a lot of work that is ‘In Progress’ and the bits and bobs I have completed are all a bit dry.

So, I’m uploading an illustration.

It’s a personal piece. It means nothing to no one (except me) and is unlikely to win any awards but it’s a bit wacky and I thought it would look good on my site.

And you know what? If by this time next Monday I have nothing else worthy of uploading, then I’ll trawl through my past work for something that is – commissioned or not.