Soul Pancake's "Chew on Life's Big Questions"

It's while back that my "Winged boy" got featured in Soul Pancake's "Chew on Life's Big Questions"...

and it looks like this, Ta-da!!

and my illustration with Rainn Wilson! (it's very quick so don't blink!)

      

This book is absolutely fantastic, I'm quoting the book feature we did on Illustration Rally here,

"It's another book feature for you now. Soul Pancake is a book that both asks and answers life's big questions. It was born from the Soul Pancake website created by actor Rainn Wilson and is an both a comic indictment of organised thinking and a source of wisdom and strength. The best way of describing this book is as a journey you don't know you are on but you realised you've already come a long way. Not only is the book fun and clever, encouraging interaction and it's own subversion but it does this in an elegant way with clear and fresh typography pitched against some insightful and beautiful illustrations. In this book the idea is the star and its a melting pot of the deep, the trivial and the life affirming.

The book itself is a fusion of images and text that is as vibrant as it can be without taking the shine off the ideas, Beautiful photographs meld seamlessly into anarchic text and incisive illustrations lend a hand to creating something that feels truly warm and innately good. It literally asks questions of you as you read and draws you into something you feel you should have known about since day one. It's gently effective, like a brick in a feather pillow it has a solid message but at no stage do you feel badgered or pushed. It lets you take the lead and take what you need from it. You can tell there is a craft involved and that it has a great deal of intelligent talent hammering it into this one concise volume, but yet it remains as irreverent as it can be whilst tackling the deeper side of the soul.

It really is a special thing to hold and to keep, in part as it's not only beautiful but a really vibrant idea filled guide to the spiritual side of your life.

A wonderful piece of heartfelt spirituality, here it is, it's Soul Pancake's "Chew on Life's Big Questions"."

Have a look at other great art pieces by amazing artists here too, I'm so proud to be in this book! 

Art by Justin Williams

Art by Mario Hugo

Art by Joanne Cruickshank

Art by Julia Pott

Art by Maxime Francout

Art by Jack Teagle

Art by Anthony Zinonos

                

London Fashion Week A/W 2011 illustrated

noki

Charlie Le Mindu

Masha Ma

Cooperative Designs

Elliott J. Frieze

Eun Jeong

I am posting something on my blog finally! The last post was made.... last October. Well, forget that, anyway, I actually have been busy since then and have many things I can share with you!

To start with I'd like to show some illustrations I created for Amelia's Magazine over LFW A/W 2011. I have tried different styles to see what works the best, what do you think? I really enjoyed drawing noki and I am very happy with how Cooperative Designs turned out. I think what I did with Charlie Le Mindu can develop further as well.

  

Making a banner!

I wanted to change my blog title and the banner for ages! (sorry it's so sudden) So I finally started to get on with it, I showed the process on twitter and got some ideas what to put in my illustration.

How I started...

Added chicken legs...

Requests from

@uberkraaft: A diamond

@MissIllustrator: A book

@mattellero: Some sort of animal- a bird or a fox

are added...

@whisk82: A basket of laundry and a washing machine

@shad_0: Super samurai hamster

are added...

@abigaildaker: A boat or a ship

@lesleybarnes: An eagle

are added...

@iamanoctopus: AN OCTOPUS

@daria_h: A flying chair

@r_hakim: Art nouveau frame

is added...

and I just carried on drawing and this is how it's done!
Now I'm going to polish this off and transform it into a banner somehow. :)

Holly Fulton

I illustrated some Holly Fulton's beautiful dress... for Amelia's magazine! :)

aaaaaand graphical test I did for a job I didn't get... blahhhh

Amazing posts!

Lovely Lesley Barnes sent me this gorgeous card a while back, I love how beautiful the people she draws are! Such a fun card to look at :)

Also, sweet Emma Cowley did an amazing give away and I got so many illustrated treats. :D

I did a feature on her recently on Illustration Rally blog so if you are interested, read here!

(My camera kept thinking this one has a face!)

LSD love + Margaret Howells + A barricade

My blog isn't really catching up with my life, so this "LSD love" is made a month ago for Ian Caulkett's Fantastic Suburbia. I created this from Sarah Remy Lee's lovely poem, LSD love.

This one is Margaret Howell's elegant gown for Amelia's Magazine at London Fashion Week. Every time I tried to record the process of my drawing, I totally forget keeping it up, but you can tell my rough's not really helping my lines from the photo below!lol

and here are more random images from my life...

My handmade barricade!

He forgot to let me know whether he was coming back home or staying out, therefore I had to stay up waiting for him till very late, I was furious!! So of course I had to make a barricade as my protest :)))

My illustration in HUCK Magazine

Wow, it's real! (what I thought firstly) Yes, I did an illustration for amazing HUCK Magazine. I never really drew someone as wrinkly as him before but I think it came out ok, although I don't entirely get why I'm always surrounded by slightly trippy subjects. I can't even drink alcohol, honest.

This is the original!

They are the pom poms!

I love making them, yeah...