More Orchardness

Just finished colouring some more decorative illustration for my forthcoming site..

Design Orchard

Is going to be the name of my new company, i think. Have been working on a background illustration for the website, and decided it was high time I put some serious effort into learning the pen tool in illustrator and photoshop... definitely making progress, although still have quite a hill to climb. i will get there! (i'm self/google taught, so any advice gratefully received)

stripped back to pure shape



added a few strokes and gradients



original pen marks with pen paths used for colour block




Squirrel and bird have their moment. tempted to re-draw but know i should press on with sorting the grasses and shading under each tree. Dont want to get too lost in the detail... yet.

Logo For Food Writer

Well Ok it's for my mum. but whatever, i think it'll look good on her aprons in the cookschool she's running:

BRIZZLE TINGS

HAYO!
THIS IS PART OF A SET OF PICS I DREW IN BRISTOL ON LOCATION WAY BACK WHEN.












the full set is here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/use_vision/sets/72157622790256335/

Divvie B

I was lying in the arms of beauty when Mr David Bowie filtered out from the radio and into our minds: "I'm so much in love. Like a little solider catching butterflies," snigger. The relaxed happy laughter and bonding contentment over the naive, clichéd, bullshit lyrics made a mental image between us, which i now lazily lay before you in glorious RGB...

Photoshop Birthday Collage

Easy now, It's been while since I last posted, i've been being fairly lazy recently, but it's my dad's birthday soon so I thought I'd finally get round to tarting up his old pics. He used to be an architect for the ILEA in London circa 1975, and he designed some pretty rad schools. I took his old portfolio, composited it a bit and printed and framed the two final images. Here they are:

Monkey art

was at a loose end on sunday and a friend wanted a version of the William Blake watercolour etching "Ancient of Days" but with a monkey as the ancient. He paid me in beer, it all got out of hand, but before it did, i changed this:



into this: