Two posts in one week. Not bad for having about 2 years off.
I remembered today that I had some new(ish) work I could post up. The above is a cover illustration I did a few months back for a childrens book titled "Scoop and Scribe: Search for the Seven Stars of Matariki". It was a job we did at work and I had the pleasure of illustrating it.
The story was originally written for an in-paper reading programme, so unfortunately the illustrations were not created for the shape of the final book. Also the illustrations were a bit rough due to me only thinking they were going in the paper. Oh, and personally I think they made a mess of the cover design - don't blame me for that.
Hrrrmmmm.
Not much to say really. It's been almost 2 years since I last posted some work, which is a pretty sad fact. But, despite this, I'm still hopeful that I'll get some new work up in the next few months. Autumn and Winter seem to have a depressing, secludedness about them that tends to motive me to create more. I guess it makes sense that I'd rather be outside during summer.
Anyway, above is an illustration I created about a month ago. It was for a competition to win an Xbox 360 Arcade Machine. The brief was to create a new character for the newly released Street Fighter 4. I tried to copy the style of the existing artwork created, while not taking a lifetime to illustrate. In the end it took about 2 nights work.
Did I win? Well, I thought I had it in the bag, but I don't even know if it got looked at it, cause some rough sketch created with felt tips took it's place as number one. Such is life.
