dark island

The Juno illustration is hopefully finished, just need to get a final approval from Emma, the editor. Then one more to do for the same issue... The biggest excitement of the day is that, after four weeks of practice, I can finally play Dark Island on the clarsach and it actually sounds like a tune! I've been playing it so much tonight my back aches.

Juno

Rough for the latest illustration for Juno magazine - all about how many cultures have male rites of passage but none for women because childbirth IS a rite of passage. And how modern society has eroded this with the expectation that women carry on as normal during pregnancy.

Wolves in the walls

Inspired by Neil Gaiman's book 'Wolves in the Walls', me and Jackson make a wolf in the wall on the stairs. Then Jackson decides it wasn't such a great idea after all...

finito

Actual time spent about four hours, but spread over a week and half!

dog day afternoon

My latest (half-finished) pet portrait and, underneath, the reason it is still half-finshed - new puppy Kenzie... You try drawing a dog while a two year old boy and a new puppy circle your feet at 100 miles an hour...

life stinks

Quote of the decade...

"the trajectory of my life was that of a cannon ball fired into a sewer -- hurtling through shit, but hurtling nevertheless."
from Gould's Book Of Fish, A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

Full circle...

Quite scary really - almost a year later and I'm back designing, but this time freelancing. I guess it's better than working for the pair of clowns I used to work my a**se off for! But still... my illustration dream eludes me...

Ah well. I sometimes think that children are the best cure for the creativity disease. Right now I can't seem to get anything done (and it's been this way for the last three years (coincidentally the same amount of time since my little boy was born). The only time I get to think these days is in the bath...