Spot the Mermaid!

Oi Oi! The cheeky sailor has spied a right beauty on yonder rock. A tantalising creature for a pirate map drawn for NORMAN CRUMB.
More images on my blog

TAKE COVER! It's the BAIN of your life...

A huge amount of respect to ANDY COUNCIL for the last month of blog posts. What an entertaining and interesting fellow! No pressure then (!!) as I take over the 'BOYS WHO DRAW' blog for August.

There an awful lot happening this month, so keep checking back here, as I'll be popping up all sorts of mouth-watering illustration gossip, pictures, news and general gumph from the land of BAIN and the wider illustration world.

To get you going you should check out 'DECKED'. I'm told it's what all the kids are talking about these days and I'll be there in full-force, showing work alongside a whole bunch of talented artists/designers/illustrators/graffiti people! Expect photos and behind the scene stuff...

BAM! It's going to be a jolly good month!

Bristol Green Companion

This is the cover illustration I have done for this years Bristol Green Companion. The last couple of years I have provided cover illustrations for the Bath Green Companion which have been dinosaur shaped. This time I have gone for a miniature world, a green globe featuring wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars.

There is a bigger sized version of the piece without text and stuff around it over on my blog.

Styracodermic

This is my illustration for edition 2 of Biteproof magazine - ''cybernetics, dianetics, and a hypodermic of mutant genetics''. Available early September.

The pic is best viewed large over on my Flickr.

Boys Who Draw Dinosaurs

This is my new piece around the theme of 'Boys Who Draw'. It features myself drawing a couple of dinosaurs for my baby boy Felix to play with. The dinos are made up of lettering, pattern, symbols and pencils. The bottom one is based on Styracosaurus and the top one surfing on top of it is a Theropod type beastie. It is carrying baby Felix in his travel seat. Baby Felix is saying 'Hey! Heay!' as thats what he says alot at the moment along with 'E E EE'.

I did the piece using pencil, pen and paints. It's nice to get away from computers.

Funny People

People often ask me whether I do any illustrations that don't feature dinosaurs....well the answer is yes. I do alot of dinosaurs in my work as, of course, I like them and other people seem to like them, so I get asked to do them a fair bit. I do quite a few illustration projects that don't involve dino's or making images up out of lots of smaller things. These are my bread and butter jobs - local council recycling schemes, internal company website thingies. I don't tend to put them up online very often as they are often restricted or I just think that they won't be of that much interest to people.

I thought that a sneak peek at a recent batch of illustrations that aren't what I am usually known for might be a bit of fun. I probably shouldn't be sticking them up here, so SHHHHHHHH!

I got a list of character names and details on where in the world they are travelling to. Some of them are more interesting than others, but then I found it made it more fun to make up little stories about them and what they look like. Mrs Council has been a great help with these funny people...lets meet some of them!

CAROL & BARRY

Carol takes all the luggage while Barry concentrates on taking his snacks in a plastic bag. In Barry's bag - cans of Fanta, Yorkie bars, Bakewell tarts and deep fill sandwiches from Asda.

KERRY

Kerry loves pink and all things fluffy. She wears a friendship band. I hate her.

JASON

Jason is too cool for school, although the amount of time he spends on Facebook talking about all the clubs and gigs he goes to probably means he is actually a sad lonely man.

STUART & BARBARA

Stuart is very organised and has an itinerary of all the places they are going to visit. Barbara likes beige.

TREV & TEL

Trev and Tel are a couple of Stella swilling dick heads. I couldn't get their sunburn any pinker as would match the red on their Saint Georges flag.

JONNY

Punks not dead OK?

JIM

Jim is off round Europe to do Woofing, felching or whatever it's called mkay? Who knows, he might end up in Thailand and get more added to his tribal tattoo.

STEVE & SUE

Sex people.

Kev Grey Royal Stock T Shirt

I don't buy clothes and stuff very often but had to get this Ltd Edition Kev Grey Royal Stock Heart T shirt when I was up in Sheffield recently. I bought it from a great little place called The Old Sweet Shop. The shop specializes in selling works by independant artists from the Sheffield area. There was an exhibition of work by Rocket01 up at the time whose spraypaint work is well worth checking out. Unfortunately I didn't get any pics as baby Felix was with me at the time and was getting a bit shouty!