Tag: illustration
Chip Eagle
Chip Eagle
Capsicum Anuum Frixum Aquilae
Contrary to popular belief, Chip Eagles prefer worms. If you see one in a field, look at its feet. It is probably worm charming by stomping the ground. It looks like Irish step dancing.
Bookshelf
Commission for a literary website.
Christopher Walken
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food, walk in the sunshine, jump in the ocean. Say the truth you are carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly, be kind, be weird–there’s no time for anything else.
Might’ve been him, might not. I like to think so, though 🙂
The Dead Queen of Bohemia
The Dead Queen of Bohemia by Jenni Fagan (The Panopticon, The Sunlight Pilgrims) is out today. I am very excited to say I illustrated the front cover and internal images.
Looks pretty damn cool – Irvine Welsh
The book is an extraordinary collection of poems.
The original brief was to illustrate the cover. Taking inspiration from the book itself, I ended up with a collection of illustrations to fit individual poems.
I think this is one book I will judge by its cover. It looks fabulous.
Ohhh, beautiful cover!! – Hank D
The poems are extremely visceral and I didn’t want to detract or overly influence the reader’s own imagination when reading them. I decided to just draw objects from them, rather than scenes. There are Wonder Woman Converse trainers, Doc Marten boots, a duck with sharp teeth and a dancing skeleton. They are in pencil – for complete honest simplicity. I love the way the publisher has allowed them to look like doodles scribbled into the book.
Nathan Thomas Jones’ illustrations really help to make this come alive. – Ed Crossan, Birlinn Books
I’m not a twitterer, but feeling the love via Jenni Fagan’s twits here:
https://twitter.com/jenni_fagan/status/667302860548272130
The Dead Queen of Bohemia is out today (14 April 2016) and is available in all good bookshops, as well as online at the publishers website:
Birlinn/Polygon
http://www.birlinn.co.uk/Dead-Queen-of-Bohemia-The.html
Blackwell’s
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Dead_Queen_of_Bohemia/9781846973390
Foyle’s
http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/the-dead-queen-of-bohemia-new,jenni-fagan-9781846973390
Waterstone’s
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dead-queen-of-bohemia/jenni-fagan/9781846973390
and
Amazon
Also
You can see some photographs of people reading the book here.
Sausage dog
Commission for a wine label.
Mother’s Day by Robert Miner
Mother’s Day by Robert Miner on Quartet Books.
My first book jacket commission (aged 5). I came home to a brand new set of Stabilo felt tips (those lovely striped tubes!) and a brief for this picture. The football is one I actually owned and the handwriting is mine too. My only disappointment with the final product was that they  changed my multi-coloured lettering to red.
Proud to see it showing up on German Amazon:
http://www.amazon.de/Mothers-Day-Robert-Miner/dp/0704322277/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8