Curse of Cromwell: The Siege is a 52 page full colour graphic novel, published at the end of November 2010. Based primarily on the Siege of Clonmel in 1650, the novel also explores the factional struggles, political landscape & key events in Ireland before Cromwell’s conquest of the country, & eventual siege of Clonmel.
At Clonmel, Cromwell [...]
Illustration Friday – Rescue. March 31st 2010. Scanned straight from my sketchbook, no enhancing. Ink pen and pantone markers.
It’s been a while since I have updated the blog, so hopefully I will be adding a lot more to it over the next while. These are a few character, the patients, born from the sketch book, they now live in cyberspace. Enjoy.
As it is the festive time of year, I decided to whip up some Christmas Song fun charts. Can you guess each the songs? (Not that hard!) All answers on a postcard to….. Happy Christmas!
After a hectic month or so of Machines, Miracles or Magic, I can finally get back to putting up some work from my latest sketchbook. As you can see its kind of sporadic to say the least, very much inspired by the amazing eccentric personal sketchbooks as featured in the hidden art of designers, illustrators [...]
Just a quick post to remind everyone that all the contributed Synth Eastwood designs including my own are up on the main Synth Eastwood site. See the link below. Worth a check, there are some fantastic designs and illustrations within.
http://www.syntheastwood.com/index.php?/homemade/content/
Pen and Ink, some markers and final colour edit in photoshop. Who knows, the next frame might be what they are looking at!
Many thanks again to alemercado.blogspot.com/ for the brushes and ink! This is my 1st illustration on the bristol board with ink. Really liked how the paper works with it too. The illustration is of a certain boys school brother (maybe in younger days)… giving the evil look!
An update of some random recent sketches.
Here is what is in my new sketchbook at the moment, not much but hopefully i will update this often.
Get your own – Open publication
passing homeless on the ha’penny bridge, sometimes things might happen
An illustration of a few old men in a pub. sketched, scanned and photoshop