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There’s always a zombie lurking…

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:14:29 +0000

What is it with me and zombies? Whatever I am working on, there is always a zombie job somewhere in there… recently I had just finished a fairly high profile zombie job (don’t think I can share it just yet) and I had started working on several non-zombie projects. Before I could ask “why aren’t I drawing someone with their limbs hanging off?” I had a request for a poster/flyer for an event in my hometown called Zombie Prom. I guess zombies are so natural to me now that I went into automatic drawing mode and came up with this before I even knew what hit me. It was a neat, quick project for a no-trouble client… my favourite kind! In Birmingham you are never more that 10 feet away from a rat and I am never more than 10 minutes away from someone who want braaaains….

The Warriors Revue

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:30:07 +0000

My band, Copter, had been planning to do a Warriors Revue for some time and this year it came to fruition.
Our good friend Mr. Radar made a 30 minute condensed version of the movie and we played along with the visuals creating a musical narrative, a kind of rock opera! For the event, I made subway tickets for entry, Warriors vests for the band (can’t take credit for the design there) and designed a poster with an old school Jack Kirby comic book feel, evoking imagery of the time in a way that hasn’t been used for the Warriors before (to my knowledge).
The whole thing was a fantastic success, with over 100 gang members turning up ,in colours, for Sirus’ big speech!

Ike n Tina

admin — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:01:17 +0000

Poster for a ColdRice party, continuing the theme of comic book-esque soul singers

Posters posters

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:17:56 +0000

This is great going thru all my old files, found a bunch of pictures from the Pop which was an exhibition of gig poster art. I had around 10 pieces displayed, lots of ColdRice posters. For all the colours and painstaking hours I spent on some of the ColdRice posters, my favourite was always this Weird War poster I made which took about 10 minutes. Always the way isn’t it?

Levis girl

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:46:09 +0000

Yeeeears ago Levi’s comissioned me and my buddy Stef to do an instore painting at the opening of one of their stores. I decided denim, rock n’ roll, so I did a portrait of a girl who wants to be Iggy Pop and we surrounded it with printed confessions from groupies.
Here’s the initial sketch I did and some photos from the event. yeeeears ago and I still have the free jeans they gave me!