Bird’s Eye Illustrated Map of Reading
Here’s a quick look at a work in progress of mine; a bird’s eye view map of Reading, Berkshire: There’s some close up images after the page break:
Sketches for The Dawn Herald
Here’s a couple of recent sketches for two of the illustrations I’m making for The Dawn Herald by L.B. Mara:
Line Drawing of Cyprus Hillside
Here’s a quick commission I worked on at the start of this week; it’s a drawing of some Cypriot villas and will be used within a forthcoming property website. I’m in two minds about whether to alter the style of the piece a little; I like the clean lines in the drawing, but am concerned [...]
Perspective Tutorial for Professional Artist Magazine
Below is one of the illustrations I produced to accompany a tutorial in perspective drawing for the excellent Professional Artist Magazine: And here are my spreads from the piece, which was laid out beautifully by their designer. The magazine had some fascinating articles in it, including a great piece about The Aesthetic Power of Geometric [...]
Four Maps of Herefordshire
Probably the nicest part of creating maps for clients is that the locations they ask you to draw can be fascinating to research. After spending a large part of this year drawing maps and skyline illustrations of London, these maps of Herefordshire were intriguing to produce. I learnt a lot about the layout of the [...]
Illustrated Map in Progress
Here’s a recent commission at the halfway stage of colouring. The colour is too wintery at this point, but I loved the feel of the piece and so I scanned it. I’ll probably use similar tones in a later piece.
Tsangarides Winery, Lemona
One of a number of commissions undertaken for the award winning Tsangarides Winery in Lemona.
Map of Ayii Anargyri Spa Resort in Miliou
I was commissioned by the Ayii Anargyri Spa resort in Miliou to draw a map of their hotel and the surrounding village, incorporating local points of interest into the map.
Paphos District
Illustrated Maps of Paphos District and Paphos Town Centres. Commissioned by Beach News and published by S.H.Instant Ad.
Map of Paphos for Beach News
One of my favourite commissions so far this year was this highly detailed map of Paphos district for Beach News. I completed the project in March and the printed map appeared this week with the first edition of the newspaper for the summer season. Space on the map was sold to restaurants and shops throughout [...]
Worthing Pier
Here’s a piece I created last year for the Made in Worthing Festival; it’s an aerial view of Worthing seafront, and includes the Lido (seen on the left). The piece was printed and distributed to guests as part of the festival celebrations. It was great to draw this area; I used to live in Brighton [...]
The Mighty Pencil Book
Above you can see the very beautiful Mighty Pencil book which I was invited to participate in earlier this year. The Mighty Pencil is a soomewhat mysterious entity, known best via their Twitter feed (@TheMightyPencil) and they have described their book as “A collection of contemporary illustration talent from around the globe” and it’s fantastic to [...]
Is-Saltna tal-Ħamsin
Towards the end of last year I was commissioned by Midsea Books in Malta again, this time to illustrate a fantasy novel by a new author, René A Cilia. The story – titled Is-Saltna tal-Ħamsin – is for ages 12 – 16 and can be purchased here.
Tutorial Piece for Digital Artist
The current issue of Digital Artist magazine features a tutorial by me about using three point perspective within a drawing. Perspective drawing is something that always interests me and this was a challenging, but very enjoyable piece to create.
Cityscapes
I haven’t drawn enough cityscapes yet. The few I’ve done, I absolutely loved. The illustration of Westminster was created for the Pagefield website and was required to fit in with the illustration of the London Skyline I created earlier this year.
