London Panoramic Redux
I really admire the work of Chris Thornley aka Raid 71 so when he proposed a collaboration involving my recent London panoramic illustration, I was intrigued to see what he would do. Here’s my piece with his additions: I absolutely love the way the figure and the birds have been worked around the composition of [...]
Southwark, Bikes and Pollution
Here’s a poster design I made for a last minute competition entry in 2010; it’s interesting how different my work was then. I don’t dislike this piece but it lacks elegance and is a little crudely drawn in places: The idea behind the piece was to show the visual difference that traffic makes to London’s [...]
London Street Names
Having been alerted to this interesting project recently, I found myself once again scanning google’s satellite imagery of London in search of some inspiration. Anyone familiar with my work will have noticed that I draw London a lot and I am somewhat obsessed with the place. I’ve always found it to be a wonderfully fascinating [...]
Mini Figures
I drew these minature figures to scatter around my map of Trafalgar Square: If you look closely, you can just see them. As Trafalgar Square is usually one of the busiest areas of London, the original piece looked a little empty without any people: The final piece benefitted from the extra life the scattered people [...]
Two drawings of Neal’s Yard
I love Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden so I’ve drawn it a number of times. Here’s two very different illustrations of it:
The Construction of a Panoramic Illustration
I recently started working on a new panoramic view of London and thought it might be interesting to show a couple of the stages I go through when working on these pieces. There are a number of remarkable photographic panoramas to be found online, but I didn’t want to just draw a straight copy of [...]
Sketch of London
Here’s a sketch I did last year; it was the first draft for this piece and I decided to restart it after the buildings became increasingly squashed together. Retrospectively, I rather like it, which is a common problem with my work; I frequently find old sketches which I infinitely prefer to the pieces I eventually [...]
View from Trafalgar Square
Here’s a new piece I’m working on, based around a terrific panoramic photograph I discovered of Trafalgar Square. One of the things I love most about Trafalgar Square is the way in which Nelson’s Column faces down the Strand; there’s something very reassuring about the sight of one of England’s most heroic figures keeping watch [...]
Covent Garden Market
I decided to rework my drawing of Covent Garden Market over the weekend; the original was a little bare and lifeless and it really needed some figures in it to make the composition work a little better: This is a crowded area of London, so I’m planning a version with even more figures in it. [...]
Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden, London
When I lived in London for a year, I had two jobs in the Covent Garden area and I spent a lot of my lunch breaks drawing Neal’s Yard and other places in the Seven Dials area. I love the relaxed, lively atmosphere in this part of London and so tried to get some of [...]
Linocut print of London Skyline
Another new addition to my Etsy shop is this graphic illustration of the London Skyline, which is a linocut print. These prints need to be drawn and carved in reverse and my usual tecnique involves drawing out the design, scanning it and flipping it over in Photoshop. However, for these piece, I used an especially [...]
Two more pencil drawings of London
I find London a fascinating place to draw; the layout of the city means that you can view the same buildings in a variety of arrangements. These two drawings both show St.Paul’s Cathedral, but from opposite sides of the river and from different viewpoints. It makes drawing a definitive London skyline impossible; part of the [...]
Pencil Drawing of London Skyline
I can’t say exactly why I work in pen and ink so much, although my fondness for this medium was certainly influenced by using a Rotring Rapidograph during a brief stint as an archaeological illustrator in 2005. So this is the first pencil drawing I have made for a while; it still needs some work, [...]
Panoramic View of London
360 degree panoramic illustration of the City of London. Pen and Ink on Paper. 2010
London Panorama Update
As I rather liked the more graphic approach of my previous effort, I decided to add a hint of colour to it:
Another London Skyline
I quite liked the idea of taking a more graphic approach to this subject and may try a version in colour at some point.
Trafalgar Square
This illustration of Trafalgar Square was created during 2010 using watercolour paint, pen and ink and letraset promarker on watercolour paper.
London Art Galleries
Illustration for Computer Arts Projects designer challenge. The brief was to create an illustrated map which showed art landmarks in London.
Line Drawing of St Paul’s Cathedral
I’ve written about this piece before & finally finished it the other week. I’m not sure whether I like the composition or not; my original intention was to show the dome from a far more extreme angle but I was distracted by the courtyard behind it and it turned into a piece about the context [...]
