Congratulations to the other illustrators selected for the exhibition - the full list is here.
Monday, 21 May 2012
Victor's Secret
Last Friday I found out that one of my pieces has been selected for Secret London: the Serco Prize for Illustration 2012. It's going to be part of an exhibition at the London Transport Museum on 13 November–10 December and needless to say - I'm right chuffed!
Congratulations to the other illustrators selected for the exhibition - the full list is here.
Congratulations to the other illustrators selected for the exhibition - the full list is here.
Friday, 4 May 2012
Sweet stuff!
Here’s some recent editorial work for Sugaronline to illustrate their various columns. All created in Fireworks with the tiniest of deadlines – minutes rather than hours – which serves to focus the mind a little bit.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Friday, 23 December 2011
Monday, 12 December 2011
Tom Browne
Tom Browne was a very well known and influential late Victorian/Early Edwardian cartoonist and illustrator whose fame hasn’t really carried through to today. His work appeared in the Sketch, Graphic, Tatler and Punch, however his best remembered work is probably Weary Willie and Tired Tim, a comic strip about a couple of tramps inspired by the adventures of Don Quixote that appeared in Illustrated Chips and ran for 60 years (50 after the artist’s death).
Browne was born in Nottingham in 1872 and, as an artist, was almost entirely self-taught - although he was heavily influenced by Phil May (with whom he was later to co-found the London Sketch Club). He moved to London in his early twenties and was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists and, later, the Royal Institute of Painters. He died in 1910 at the age of 38.
The following strips come from Tom Browne’s Comic Annual from, I think, 1904 and, appropriately, features his two favourite characters, Don Quixote and his Sancho.
For more on Tom Browne see:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/03/tribute-to-tom-browne.html
http://britishgoldenagecomics.4t.com/custom2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Browne_%28illustrator%29
Browne was born in Nottingham in 1872 and, as an artist, was almost entirely self-taught - although he was heavily influenced by Phil May (with whom he was later to co-found the London Sketch Club). He moved to London in his early twenties and was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists and, later, the Royal Institute of Painters. He died in 1910 at the age of 38.
The following strips come from Tom Browne’s Comic Annual from, I think, 1904 and, appropriately, features his two favourite characters, Don Quixote and his Sancho.
For more on Tom Browne see:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/03/tribute-to-tom-browne.html
http://britishgoldenagecomics.4t.com/custom2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Browne_%28illustrator%29
Monday, 5 December 2011
Welcome...
...to my new blog where I'll be posting some of my sketches, cartoons and ramblings on a relatively erratic basis. Much like my old blog really, just with a new title. I'm going to begin with some recent odds and ends. Hope you like these and the ones that will follow.
This last one is a copy of a figure in a mural by the fantastic German illustrator Ulf K (the original can be seen here).
This last one is a copy of a figure in a mural by the fantastic German illustrator Ulf K (the original can be seen here).
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