Rob Hoey Comic.

From one fun project to another, shortly after our shoot with Pinch TV I got an email from Matt Bell asking if I'd be interested in an illustration job. I stroked my (lack of) beard and agreed enthusiastically.

The brief was to make an A2 sized comic, in the style of Beano/Beezer/Viz for Rob Hoey's birthday that was coming up, a surprise gift (quick note, Rob has received said illustration so this isn't some sort of spoiler post!). Matt wrote the script, and I went from there. It was a really fun project to do and something a bit different and (blowing my own trumpet) testing my versatility as an illustrator which is always welcomed.

I managed to get it printed off and dry mounted at the gallery I work at which was a huge convenient bonus. Some pictures:

Bit blurry this one - the illustration freshly printed.

The illustration after it's been dry mounted, it's basically a method of attaching prints and artworks to mounting surfaces by heating a shellac tissue between the mount and the print. Just so it's more durable and not as flimsy.

A closer look.

I attached a love letter for Rob a small note for Rob for any framing recommendations.

The bad boy wrapped in about a million layers of tissue paper.

Phew, been a very busy month. Very glad I had this week off work (beside the rain part). Next step I would like to do is to start to build an ACTUAL website, we'll see how that goes.

Tar Tar For Now.

Pinch TV.

It's been a busy month.

First things first, completely forgot to mention an exciting project that I took part in and should be out fairly soon. The company Pinch TV approached me to take part in a collaboration. They're an online magazine/web-episode based company who specialize in culture, remixed. The project they had lined up in mind for me was to collaborate with two comedians in the form of Matt Bell and Rob Hoey.

Without spoiling too much, the comedic duo are ghost detectives investigating some ghoulish shenanigans that are happening at a distressed woman's house (played by Olivia Campbell). I feature in the sense that I illustrate these ghouls as well as providing 'action shots'. It'll all become apparent and clear very soon when they release the episode - which quite honestly, I'm very excited about. The opening back and forth between Matt and Rob had me in stitches, it was very hard to keep a straight face.

(photos courtesy of Lottie O'Conor from Pinch TV)

 An injured Rob Hoey on the bench and a vengeful Matt Bell in action.

Horny Matt and Rob.

Matt, Pips Taylor and Colin. Shout out also to Sarah Keeling too who was behind the camera

One of the characters featured in the episode. 

Me and my mad skillz.

Breakfast.

Astroskull 2.

Optical Illusion.

In the mood of playing around and experimentation I decided to try out some optical illusions. I've always been fascinated by Bridget Riley's optical illusions from an early age, which later inspired me to do some of my own versions at University (which I should really post up with this - I'll get round to it at some point). I've just always been fascinated by how something so 3D looking is made from a 2D medium, I love the idea of how your  infinitely massive brain is being deceived by these simple repeated lines.

Below is a hand drawn optical illusion I did in photoshop. I tried to make a gif animation out of it with another duplicated layer on top so that they look like they're seeping through eachother, but it was very hard to try and find the part where it would loop back to the beginning again in a smooth transition without looking like it's jumping. More to follow.

Astroskull

The Last Worrior.

Just a bit of fun: