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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As promised another pornstar.. Tori Black

The other day after looking at the stats for my blog I made a discovery, my most viewed page

was a caricature of the pornstar Sarah Jay, so I decided for my next illustration to go with what the public want and draw another pornstar, so I googled top 10 pornstars acording to www.complex.com

Tori Black is the number 1 pornstar at present..

and here she is above enjoy!

more pornstars soon

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A bit of British...

(click to enlarge YO)

So its the Queens jubilee soon, so I thought I draw something British and what better to draw than an old London Bus. Also it makes a change from drawing people, as much as I love drawing faces and people I am trying to draw more boring things, but give 'em a twist so they look visually intresting. Like I have done with this bus, for this one I was playing around with a few affects and layers and came across the 'screening' effect and put it on the bus and it really helped to just finish of the coloring of it.

More illustrations of boring things with a twist soon

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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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JESSIE J

After watching The Voice, and clocking just how sexy Jessie J is, I decided to do an illustration of her. I think I have managed to capture her sexy pout and staring eyes in this image. Then too finish of the illustration using very expressive coloring style - which gives it that kick of life.

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BURRR BURRR

Its been a minute since my last upload, just been dealing with internships and general life!!

Above is a picture of one of my favourite southern rappers

GUCCI MANE

Once agian I have gone with the loose coloring style almost using photoshop as a paint brush

however this time I had a go at using the blur tool on a few spots on his body

just to had an extra depth into the illustration

and adding a photograph of Atlanta (where the rapper is from) to try to make the

illustration of the rapper really POP.

Below is the first ever video I saw from the rapper, its real greazey but its a good song and

he's wearing his famous ICED OUT BART.

#BURRR #BURRR

MORE WORK SOON.

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