A curious creator of visual stories. Making Art based on stories about people and creatures. Drawing from ancient tales, through to the here and now. A world full of truth, mystery and lies. I capture their perceptions and how they behave with sincere and satirical illustrations.
I create designs, through a process of photographs to digital or real ink drawings, to silk screen printing, spray cans and paint pens. Switching between stark monochrome or painterly colours that are bold and dramatic. I’m drawn mostly to painting onto wood and screen printing because it delivers a tactile hand finish and I do love the smell of freshly mixed paint.
@dgal If you use Wordpress make sure you keep all your plugin and CMS security code up to date. In February there was a major security flaw in the system that had gone unnoticed for 6 years. The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at RIPS Technologies GmbH.
@Kevin-Cochran I've been Beta testing Adobe Project Gemini, which has the features of Photoshop but geared for digital drawing/painting in pixels and vectors. It's kind of what I've been waiting for, as it means I'll be able to draw everything on the iPad and not have to finish off in Photoshop on my desktop. I'm really quite impressed with it. Apart from the bugs! But that's to be expected. It's coming out this summer. Worth getting if you have Adobe Creative Cloud.
I try to restrict myself to using one or 2 types of digital brushes at a time so there's consistency in my work. I limit my colour palette because I'm used to screen-printing, where every colour means making up a new screen.
I still draw quite a bit in pencil and inks though. Can't beat real liquid on paper and wood. I'd recommend doing both digital and traditional.
@Braden-Hallett 3 and 8 have my vote - they stood out in my mind from all the rest. 3 looks the coolest and suits the illustration style. But I also like 8 for the DIY nature of the image.
@Laurasketches my macbook was 9 years old and running brilliantly when I upgraded to an SSD and more RAM - that was 4GB to 8GB RAM until the battery exploded, it was fine. If you go to the crucial System Scanner website you can check what RAM you need - CRUCIAL UK or CRUCIAL USA
Samsung make very good 860 EVO SSD hard drives. Or Crucial MX500 SSD. They'll fit in both a laptop and desktop.
@Laurasketches If you don't have an SSD (Solid State Drive) hard drive, you could try getting an external hard drive and using that as your scratch disk or buy a new internal SSD drive. If you are using old RAM (Randon Access Memory) then buy the latest RAM you can for your machine. New memory and hard drive will make a massive difference on performance for less cost than buying a whole new computer.
@Adrian-K Have you looked at Alfons Mucha's Art Nouveau work? His framing is electric!
Also look at the eccentric Aubrey Beardsley - the magic of the framing takes you into the world the illustrations are set.
@Aleksey Yes and there's probably fish-folk that specialise in finicures.
@Aleksey This looks great. Digging the knitting and playful catfish. I think the tail looks like a young 'uns mertail though. Maybe some barnacles and torn tips?
@Jon-Anderson @Lee-White Cheers! Drawing Mac, was feeding me energy to keep me awake 
@Jon-Anderson Yes this was something I was playing with last night with regards to Macaroni's position. But it got to 7 am and I thought I best get some sleep! I've made it with Mac just touching moment, as there are a few other little dudes peering over the edge. So I want him to be just one step ahead of everyone else. Here's the update. Thanks for the comments and suggestion.
