Hannya, Peony and Chrysanthemum's

New paintings where i am trying to simplify my colour choice and drawing, simplicity is always the best but always the hardest to achieve! 

Irezumi Pin ups 2

Some of these larger scaled ladies were created using some of the original A4 ladies outlines, and some completely new ladies drawn especially for this size, as i grew more confident with creating the bodysuits i wanted to work larger to allow for more detail. These larger A3 ink and watercolour pieces were the result.

Tattoo Style Flash Sheets

I wanted to create more flash sheets based around tattoo themes, i wanted to continue the practice of creating smaller contained images arranged on a pages as oppose to individual large scale paintings. the [process was great for working on simplifying ideas and for layout and spacing with composition.

Irezumi Flash sheets

I begun a process of creating traditional 'American' tattoo flash sheets but using my own style and aiming towards Japanese themes for the subject matter. Creating these flash sheets provide great practice for layout, sizing and page composition. 

Irezumi Pin Ups

I created this set of girls with the intention to try out new painting techniques that did not have a black outline, i wanted to give each girl an individual character and Irezumi suit. Each girl has a theme, some poses inspired by Bruce Timm's work and some poses inspired by Gil Elvgren pin up girls

 

Irezumi Flash Sheet work

One of my major interests is Ukiyo-e work, this eventually led to an interest in Irezumi and tattooing, i have created many images on the themes from Ukiyo-e and Irezumi but i recently started to design tattoo style flash sheets to explore the ideas of the two merging further. These ink and watercolour paintings are a Kingyo and Oni Demons set of flash.

Sunsets by Mike Tan

Album cover design for the album 'Sunsets' by Mike Tan. I was sent the album to listen to and asked to create the album art. I played the album through a few times and listened to it as i worked eventually coming up with this entirely digital painting. The music and more of Mikes work can be heard on his website.

http://miketan.co.uk/

Cobham Clinic Design Work

Cobham Clinic logo design work, the logo was designed in black and white below so that it could

be variated into many shades of different colours.

http://www.thecobhamclinic.co.uk/

Kingyo Irezumi Set

Probably the last post of the year for 2014! I have felt compelled to add images to this blog even though the frequency that i post at has slowed down since i started it... nearly 5 years ago! a lot of my images i tend to post through Instagram and on my own website, but every now and then i will post some progress here. This set of Kingyo were a continuation of the Koi seasons but with goldfish, i tried again to give each one a distinct colour scheme, i was very happy with the outcome of this set!

Take Note Music

Recently finished a logo and a set of illustrations for Take Note Music, the client wanted an Ant in the logo that could then be used throughout the instructional videos on how to play instruments. Information on the site and finished videos to follow soon!