Fashionista

This wee beauty is the new resident Fashionista at Noir magazine, a new British style magazine. The good people there needed a character to accompany their fashion police column. I decided to go with something a wee bit different from my usual style whatever that is!

Kate Moss

This was a job for the new British fashion magazine "Noir" to accompany an editorial focusing on British style icon Kate Moss. The brief was quiet simple, Kate Moss, british fashion, rock n roll. I used about four reference photos ( to avoid the horrors of copyright law.) graphite, ink and Photoshop.

The Illustrious Client

This is the second piece based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great Detective, Sherlock Holmes. This scene is from the short story "The Illustrious Client". In the original stories Holmes got into plenty of action, here he is attacked in the street by two thugs. Fortunately Holmes is a practiced stick fighter and has no qualms about going ahead. Get into them Sherlock.

A Study In Scarlet

This is the first of two Sherlock Holmes illustration ideas I had for an illustrated collection of Holmes stories. This is a scene from "A Study In Scarlet" were Holmes plays ( with great skill, contrary to the myth that he plays badly) when mulling over his new case.

The Saint issue 4

The final cover to my imagined Vertigo series based on The Saint. The Budapest Gambit comes to its bloody conclusion. I really enjoyed working on this wee project.

The Saint issue 3

My take on a Vertigo series featuring Simon Templar, The Saint. The story centers on the oncoming assault on Nazi occupied Budapest by Russian forces and a mysterious chess game between an autistic Bulgarian teenager and a high ranking Nazi officer with the future of the war hanging in the balance. The Saint takes matters into his own hands to end the chess game to his satisfaction and escape Budapest in one piece.

The Saint issue 2

Set myself a project for a Vertigo series featuring The Saint. Here's the cover to issue 2. Inspired partly by my 1980's Action Man ( or if your American, G.I. Joe).

The Saint issue 1

The Saint ( Simon Templar) the adventurer from the stories of Leslie Charteris is among my favorite fictional characters. This is the first of four covers for an imaginary Vertigo series featuring The Saint in an adventure set against the backdrop of the storming of Nazi occupied Budapest by Russian forces and a nail biting chess game that may sway the outcome of the war.

The Batman circa 1946

In 2003 Mark Millar (writer of The Ultimates, Kick Ass etc) wrote in his column on CBR that in 1944 Orson Welles had shown great interest in directing and starring in a Batman movie. With a cast and director that are amongst the greatest icons hollywood has ever produced, the movie could have changed how comics are percieved by the masses.
The movie as you know was never made, infact the whole thing was just a wishfull hoax by Mr Millar.
Anyhoo, in an alternate universe this is how the movie poster could have looked.

Breaking Bad

This is an editorial illustration to accompany a DVD review of the T.V series Breaking Bad, season 2. This show is amazing. The show is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and focuses on a chemistry teacher who when discovering he has aggressive lung cancer becomes a Meth cook in order to make enough money to leave to his family when he's gone. With his partner (an ex pupil) he embarks on a second life as "Heisenberg" the biggest Meth dealer in the state. I wanted this piece to have a rough, dirty feel to it, with hot colours.