Hi there, people have also commented on the inherent cool the Hand Drawn Creative logo exudes. Now you can share the magic. I've teamed up with Montreal's misterdressup to bring you a ONE WEEK ONLY deal. For 20 Canadian dollars you snap up the official Hand Drawn Creative Tee until 23 June 2013. Please form an orderly queue.
Here's a project I participated in about a year ago with Belfast's Creativity Hub. I was asked to illustrate two of the Extraordinaires characters along with a host of Ireland's best known and talented illustrators. The final product is called Extraordinaires Design Studio and is being marketed as a toy to help train our next generation of Designers – great idea. I missed last night's unofficial launch party, but I'll be in Dublin on Friday night to attend the official launch and put my signature on some prize giveaways as part of the OFFSET conference.
Here are the two Characters I designed for the Design Studio…
Fab Europe are running a four day sale of my prints from today (20 March 2013)! I'm really excited as to what may come from this, and am really chuffed that they've approached me. All print fulfilment will be carried out by my good buddies Brough & Ready in England, so all the prints will be much larger than usual and gallery archive quality too! If you've always fancied investing in one of my prints, now may well be the time to act.
I've finally committed to making that sacred 100 mile journey to hang out with my fellow Illustrators and Designers in Dublin for the Offset Festival this year. Are you going too? Can you offer me a lift from Belfast? If you want to say hi, I'd love to chat. The best place to find me will probably be at Creativity Hub's official "Extraordinaires" launch on the Friday (I was one of the Illustrators who took part in this project last year). Personally speaking, I'm most looking forward to seeing fellow Bangor Boy, Jonatahan McHugh and design hero Vaughan Oliver speak.
The sworn enemy of G-Force is almost here Battle of the Planets fans!
I've been studying a lot of photos of Marilyn Monroe recently and thought I'd create an homage to a photoset Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed for Life Magazine in 1953. I just loved colours in these pictures and took them as a reference for this illustration that'll be available as a print very soon.
Just finished this submission for Planet Pulp's February show. The theme this month is Hanna Barbera. I almost had too much fun drawing this. A print is on its way soon. In the meantime, check out the rest of the show over at Planet Pulp.
I'm a little slow off the blocks this year, but I'm trying to get the ball proprly rolling this week by announcing the 'refresh' of the Hand Drawn Creative Website! I've finally added new content to my galleries and got my branding in check throughout. Do drop by if you haven't been there for a while…
Here's another lovely little job I completed for an award-winning Interior Designer on Belfast's swish Lisburn Road. I was asked to create a printed illustration of my client's wife for a special Christmas gift. So here's Cheryl; pictured at work with a fabric swatch, delegating like crazy!