Mr Porter - The Knack

This week saw my editorial illustration debut, illustrating the Mr Porter's 'The Knack' feature - check it out here

Individualism

I was recently asked to illustrate the editor of mens fashion site Individualism, Mr Aaron 'Bowse' Christian: for the editor himself's 2012 letter. Its been a pleasure knowing the man who has taken up a position as video editor at Mr Porter, and what he has done with his own site is amazing! The 'Sins of Style' section is amazing - check it out!

This is a little project that I have been working on for a classic football shirt online shop which will be opening soon(more details to come) The aim is to illustrate a number of classic footballers, the above is of course the legendary Paul Breitner in Spain for the 1982 World Cup.

A few sketchbook pages

The Fishermen

An Illustration I did last october...which I have begun to make into a final, its just finding the time over the coming weeks to finish!

Update

Its been a while since I updated this blog, and its something that has been nagging me non stop! I have been working on some new football kits, which will be coming shortly and hopefully a 3rd instalment of my kit design magazine.

Since my last update I have secured a job as a designer at MRPORTER.COM which has been a dream come true, working with a group of some of the most talented designers in the fashion retail world! Im learning non stop and have many Illustrations built up.

Keep an eye out and I shall have much more work forthcoming(aswell as hopefully finishing my website!)...the above illustration was something I was asked to produce for a male grooming site, it didnt get used but seems a fitting image to use for this post

sketchbook junk

Having finished university I thought it was time to go through some of the junk I have built up in sketch books and illo's over the last couple of years, and some projects which I didn't complete in time(university life making me lazy) that I now wish to finish.

This is an etching I did a couple of years ago of Edward Scissorhands, I thought him the perfect character for the scratchy effect you get with etchings.

The Aesthetic Trust Interview

The Aesthetic Trust featured me on their site, for their 'show and tell' section, here is an interview with me discussing my work for the Louche F.C and just a general chit chat about design and what inspires me - click here to check it out!

New Website Coming Soon

I have been working on my new improved website which will show all of my work and more, this will be up and running at the end of the month so keep a look out!

University Final Major Project

A selection of artwork created for my final major project at university. These are posters which Manchester based band Louche F.C's records label ‘Sways’ asked me to create, the idea was to have artwork which can be used in multiple ways, be it vinyls, merch or gig posters. The ideas for the artwork came from the bands songs, and the image they planted in my head.

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Football Kit Zine #2

The second instalment of my football kit magazine series, this will be printed over easter and then made available to buy once my online store goes live. More to follow, and please enjoy.

Open publication - Free publishing - More angelo

Magazine #2 illustration progression

Gotta Love Robbie Savage.

The great man, Robbie Savage had a little drawing comp on twitter, sketched this up quickly to get in quick and ended up with it as his twitter pic! Pretty chuffed as he was always my only brit in my football manager Inter team! what a man!

Doctrines - Album Art Final

The Band asked for a black and white image for their artwork as a nod to Raymond Pettibon, heres my take, with a few splashes of grey here and there.

Fort Worth Band logo

Logo design for Manchester based-band Fort Worth, who wanted a calligraphic tattoo inspired logo.

Doctrines - Album Art

Album artwork for Manc-based band Doctrines, for their forthcoming EP.

More to follow...

The Sasha Postcards

Iv had the designs I did for 'The Sasha' made into some postcards, working on getting these made into posters which will be available to buy when I sort my ETSY account out.

Illustration Magazine Cover designs.

Having finished my finals, I wanted to see what they would look like in a “zine” style so created a series of cover designs, inspired by vintage gentlemen’s covers such as 'The Gent' and 'Esquire'. I settled on the name The Sasha, seeing as it is based on Sasha Grey.

Final Sasha Illustrations Coloured.

Finally finished my Uni project, these are the finals along with the bottom ones, all coloured, for now I am handing them in as posters, but in the next couple of weeks will turn them into a mini magazine.

Colour.

More Grey.

More sketches of Sasha Grey, wether they look like her is open to debate, but its intended to be her, to make it abit more interesting, I've added a leather aviator hat and futuristic gun, these are still the roughs and will be coloured in time for next thursdays deadline.

Sasha Grey.

These images are part of 20 that I have had to produce for University, the project was to do an illustration a day. Being someone who gets easily distracted it was hard for me to keep drawing either half-assed or on the same subject, especially when all I want to do is design football kits. I settled on drawing Sasha grey, a couple of times a week, I chose the pornstar as you can go crazy with the body positions and its good practice for anatomical drawings.

Inspired by two of my favourite illustrators James Jean, and Alberto Ruiz.

Sampdoria

This is a re-visit from a past design I did almost 2 years ago as a Nike design. Only this time I have done it for Kappa, who currently manufacture the Samp kits. I've re-introduced the more 'aqua' blue that Samp had in the late 80s-early 90s, and given the kit abit of a twist whilst retaining the Kappa qualities.

I'm a huge fan of Kappa and love all of their kits, for me the most innovate company in the last 20 years, clearly taking the function over form approach to their designs, and as a result having such elegant and simple kits.

For the away kit I liked the grey kits of the early 2000s without the Blucerchiato, however for my design instead of getting rid altogether I decided to make it very subtle only visible when looked at closely(for illustration purposes I've made it more visible).

USA Home & Away

Kit design for the USA, whose kits I feel are quite un-american. When you look at MLS despite the fact the are all Adidas you get the Americana flavour through the crest designs and colours etc, what I have done here is play on their pride and how they love their flag, which forms an integral part of the kit (the interruption down the left hand side is to create a feeling that the flag is flowing in the air. Having looked at the kits from the '94 world cup and Captain America's suit this is the result with the home having the stars faintly inserted with holes to ventilate the body. For more info on the triangular design, see the below post.

Pyramid Logo Concept

I have been working on more football kit designs to create a large magazine/catalogue of my designs which I will send out to companies and possibly make them available for sale online.
These three logos above are a play on the new 'Nike Football' logo, and Illuminati symbolism, these will be used on a design for the USA national team I have been working on, which in a way is a mock over how patriotic they are. The Illuminati logo idea was born out of being told by superstitious folk about how much it appears in places all over the world, but more specifically the US. It can be found on the US Dollar note, AOLs logo, Starbucks, Nickolodean and millions more…its only right that it should adorn the nations football kit.

Hearts FC kits

These designs were done for Chris 'Chillibean' Ciliberti, who aswell as being a good friend of mine, is a huge Hearts fan. I wanted to go for something quite quirky for the designs, I hate the current Ajax rip off kit that they currently play in. I was surprised that the side didn't have any kit like this in their history, so despite being quite outrageous I'm quite pleased with the outcome. The designs have had mixed reviews on the design forums, but is this such a crazy concept when we are seeing professional footballers wearing bright pink football boots?

Louche FC - Comic

Louche FC - Sticker

Another ‘Panini’ style sticker I have created, this time the female singer, Kyoko. Here I have also shown the inked illustration that I start off with. Pretty simple process, I draw the image, ink it up using a combination of fineliner pens and acrylic ink, import that into Adobe Illustrator and live trace, and then using the layers I apply the colour. The textured background is a hand made piece of paper I scanned in.

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This is another piece of work for Manchester-based band, The Louche FC. Two 'Panini' style stickers with a 1940s twist. This is also one of my first proper attempts at portraits, and glad to say it worked, as it looks like who its meant to.

I also have set up another blog for university works, this still has design work I have done some of which isnt on here, but also has works I admire. check it out here