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:
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 [...]
Illustrated Map for the Dawn Herald
I was recently commissioned by L.B Mara to illustrate a map and several watercolours for her absolutely excellent book, The Dawn Herald. Here is the drawing so far: The visual influences on this piece deserve a lengthy, detailed blog post all of their own, so I’ll refrain from going into too much detail right now, [...]
Bird’s Eye view of Brighton
This is a work in progress and shows Brighton town centre in 3/4 bird’s eye view. I also started to add some hand written street names, which I rather like the look of:
Panoramic View of London
360 degree panoramic illustration of the City of London. Pen and Ink on Paper. 2010
Watercolour Illustrated Map of Trafagar Square
This illustration shows Trafalgar Square in bird’s eye view and was made in 2010. Watercolour & Pen and Ink on Paper.
Paphos District
Illustrated Maps of Paphos District and Paphos Town Centres. Commissioned by Beach News and published by S.H.Instant Ad.
Tavern Illustrations
A couple of years ago, I had a regular slot in a local newspaper where I would descend upon a tavern, test the food with the help of my lovely family and then write about it. I also drew some pictures of the places we ate in, as my photography skills are embarrassingly inadequate. Here [...]
Perspective Tutorials
Illustrations and tutorials for Digital Artist magazine demonstrating advanced perspective techniques.
Nicosia
The drawing above shows the Ledra street border in Nicosia, where you cross over into the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus. Although we’ve lived in Cyprus for three years now, this was my first visit to Nicosia and although I was aware of the circumstances surrounding the Green Line which divides the island, I hadn’t [...]
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.
