I want to live in a Container House one day

Recently I was researching about modified shipping containers turned into studios and homes as a means of cheaper, recyclable living space.

As it happens I just completed a commission for something very similar - Accessory Dwelling Units! These are mini houses built on property or converted garages. They're pretty popular in Portland US at the moment.

Much thanks to my friend Jack for putting my name forward for the job! It's a speculative image, but here's hoping it'll lead to more work. If not - one for the portfolio!

I also did a few black and white drawings of tea leaves for another commission which sadly fell through.

And to top it all off, I've almost finished doing up the spare room into a study/studio room. I'm in shared housing so I wanted to make sure the room is usable by others as well! Once it's finished I'll post up some pictures here. All I can say is...thank you, IKEA!

More updates soon!

Poster Designs

An inter-department brief at my uni asking for poster designs for the English and Writing Guest Speakers was given to three others and myself. Here are the plain images I produced (text has a possibility of being changed so I've left it out):

 Group poster for the first block of Guest Speakers

Poster for Liz Kessler, well known children's fantasy author

Poster for James Robinson, author of radio dramas for the BBC

Victoriana design

T-Shirt Design for Victoriana promotion :)

Sneak Preview Rough

In my spare time I'm working on an interesting graphic novel project for a guy called Tim Hart.

Thought I'd share a rough with you as a sneak preview ...

Artsfest End

I am definitely tuckered out after such a fun weekend at Artsfest! I met loads of nice people, chatted and had a good time, and also sold some work, so it was a great success. Thank you to all of you who liked my work enough to buy it!

I'll be working on the blog a bit more so there'll be more artwork up soon, and I still have some prints left over so I'll going to put them in packs if anybody is interested. They'll be up on the 'products' page. Pictures will follow, I'm just typing this on a laptop without easy access to them, so keep checking back!

There's also been some interest in commissioning work. If you want anything done, please e-mail me (see my contact page). At a rough estimate, a colour A4 original is going to be about £30, and a black and white around £20-£25. But like I said, drop me a line and I'll work something out :)

Of course, if you just want to say hi you're welcome to do so as well!

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