Harrison Fraud

Another old notebook drawing from fourteen years ago. I'm having fun looking back through them. Some of the ideas i shall be revisiting/reworking, they never got enough of my attention at the time. 20 years in this business and i'm taking stock of what's been and what i would like to come. 2014 has been a funny old year, 2015 could be a difficult one, but hopefully i make a few breakthroughs too. Somethings got to give.

Grey Fingers

This weeks offering for The WALL

... And Poor Mr MacKenzie!

Messing With Mr Cardew

This would have him rolling in his grave. Sacrilege. I couldn't help myself, every time I see this pot (or similar) i just want to stick a little face on it. Now imagine that all covered in relevant sgraffito too!... I know, why aren't I showing you the real thing by now? You know why! God damn.

Winston Pickle

There's life in Winston yet. Something is stirring. This is just a doodle i was knocking about with, but something is happening. I will keep you posted, when i can. I'm liking my low effort, doodly stuff more than the rest of my (low effort!) stuff these days. I even like my crappy lettering. I think i'm unravelling.

Some of you folk may remember this past teaser too.

We're All Guilty Of Something

One of my pieces from "We're all guilty of something". You can see the set over on my website by just clicking through them.

Don't know why this image is connecting with me right now ; )
Actually i do! I'm drowning in my own life, Ha. I really must do that tax return too! Hate it, hate all that shit. Forgetting to pay bills too. Just the relentless struggle trying to keep up. I'm falling off the back of the pack, waiting to be picked off.

Stumbling In The Dark

 I saw a book entitled, My Friend Jesus Christ, in a charity shop the other day and i just liked the title and the premise, but thought it deserved a nicer cover, so i just did a doodle mock up and liked the simplicity. I have no real idea what the book is about, other than a biker turning up at some guys house claiming to be Jesus. I would probably have worked up some biker badges and a few more tattoos, but i just left it plain for now. I had considered adding the back of a pink, flowery sofa... but then decided to keep it stripped down.

This other one is just me playing around again. Dogwalker, by Arthur Bradford is one of my favourite books. Very funny, creative, absurd little stories. They make me think I could write stories, but that's his knack, when of course i couldn't. Anyway, it's purely visual. There is a character in the book called Catface, who wears double denim, but my doodle is not accurate. i just drew a cat faced man and liked him white! I've even split the title into two words (sacrilege!). These are me just playing visually, trying to find where it is i want to stand. They are not great book cover designs, but they are really helping me see pathways. I'm sharing them... just because. This is what goes on. This is what my mind looks like. I find a lot of graphic/illustration blogs are just adverts for work published (which i do as well, of course), but i really like ones where i get to see some of the person too. Why pretend we're not all just a little bit fucked up? It's only human.