The Joker

In the current issue of SFX- the magazine about all things sci-fi I have an illustration of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker for a forthcoming film also starring Robert de Niro.

Future Films

Some of my regular SFX illustrations where I am called upon to visualise a film, previewed by Nick Setchfield, that hasn´t yet been made! Included in this bunch is Venom starring Tom Hardy which is out later this year.

Solo

In Nick Setchfield´s regular ¨Development Hell¨ spot in SFX magazine I am asked to accompany the news of a film in development by a relevant illustration. If (as in the case of Solo) the film has a few changes along the way I may get to draw it a few times.
Here are the three cartoons I drew for the stages of bringing the film Solo to the screen.
The film was announced by Lucasfilms in early 2016 and all the young hopeful actors of Hollywood auditioned for the prize role of Han Solo. I was asked to illustrate all of them about to shoot Greedo!

Alden Ehrenreich won the part. Then shooting began with the directors Loed and Millar who had made the Lego Movie. They were soon kicked off the project by the producers for ¨artistic differences¨ and George Lucas´s mate Ron Howard was brought in.

Then the rest of the cast were announced including Emelia Clarke and Donald Glover as Lando Kalrisian. This drawing was done waaaaay before the film´s release and I didn´t know that Glover would be sporting a fetching beard. But we did know that it was being described as a ¨space western¨ in style.

As you may know, it opened to a bit of a bashing from the critics but I really liked it' Especially the robot! Robots seem to steal every film that they´re in including the recent reimagining of the old TV show ¨Lost in Space¨.

Sketchmania!

I´m a bit of a sketch maniac and always like to be doodling away even when I´m watching a film on my computer. Last night I did these sketches whilst watching the last half of the excellent Netflix series The End of the F···ING World.

Recent scribblings

Here are some recent illos for the magazines SFX and Match of the Day.

Cartoon samples

Recently on Facebook there was a challenge to post up 3 examples of work  every day for five days. Here's one of my posts featuring two comic strips- Maid Marian and her Merry Men from one of the 8 graphic novels I illustrated based on the award winning TV series written by and starring Tony Robinson. And a more recent couple of strips from Mega magazine featuring a toilet-obsessed Doctor Who clone called Doctor Loo.

Match of the Day 300

Last week Match of the Day, the football magazine marked its 300th issue.
I've been contributing a caricature comic strip every week for most of that run. The guys on the mag (mainly Ed Beeryman) write the script and I illustrate it. Even though I'm not a footy fan I enjoy this weekly challenge as there are always new victims for my caricaturing skills such as they are.
I hope it carries on as it's a fun and regular job!