IRON MIKE

Wow its been a minute since I last uploaded! Full time Graphic Design, training and my social life

have been consuming a lot of my time recently! Anyway at the moment I'm hooked on my latest auto-biography IRON MIKE. It's such a intresting read!!

Anyway I copied the front cover, and used pencil and returned back to using colouring pencils to colour the image as I have really missed the natural look and feel you get with using colouring pencils onto illustrations.

Going to back grass roots, pencils, paper, rubber.

Then to finish the image of I filled the negative space with a nice flat pastel brown  to really bring out the illustration. 

MORE WORK SOON

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Manny Pacquiao v Timothy Bradley

This illustration was inspired by the controversial win by Timothy Bradley, as it seemed

clear that Manny Pacquiao was dominate for the majority of the fight. However I hear

there have been talks of a rematch.. watch out for that one!!

Regarding the style, I have slipped back into using my looser coloring style to add the energy in the illustration. I am really happy with the red as I really feel those few strokes really carry the image!!

And below here is a another version of the illustration, limited to a 3 colour pallet.

Which one do you prefer?

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ROY SHAW

Recently I have been getting back into my autobiography's and after finishing Lenny McLean's one - Roy Shaw was mentioned in his book as he and McLean had 3 legendary boxing matches for the title of 'The Guv'nor'.

So the end result was that McLean was named the Guv'nor, but I wanted to hear the other side of the story as well as Roy Shaw's story leading up to the fight, I'm half way through and so far its been a brillant read this east end bad boy has had a very colorful life.

So I decided to do an illustration of him, I find that with each drawing I am doing I am needing less and less lines to accurately draw each character which I am really happy about.
Teaming the line drawing with my expressive coloring style is becoming my staple style now.

I think for my next illustration I'm going to do something completely different, just to
challenge myself.

MORE WORK SOON COME.

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