Sussex wildlife

A series of B&W line drawings commissioned earlier this year for the Wiston Estate, a vineyard and winery in the beautiful Sussex countryside. They also have nature walks, bike trails and are opening a restaurant soon. 

Londonist Drinks

It was lovely to be asked to produce an illustrated map for ‘Londonist Drinks’ the follow up to ‘Londonist Mapped.’ I was commissioned to work on a map for the best pubs near mainline train stations. All the research had already been done so it was my job to add the chosen venues to a map.

First stage was a B&W rough. I drew all the stations and pub signs separately before adding them to the map on Photoshop.

Here are some of the individual images and the finished map.

I also provided some of the smaller images dotted throughout the publication.

Thanks to Rebecca Needes who oversaw the design. The book is now available and would make a great present for anyone who likes London and drinking!

My illustration process - Creating an illustrated map

Here is the finished map of Park Hill Park which, if you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen me working on earlier in the year. The park is only five minutes walk from the busy East Croydon Station and is a lovely place to spend a sunny lunch hour or have a break from the busy town centre.

Rough stage
I’ve put a series of images below showing how I worked through the process with the Park Hill Friends group who commissioned the piece. First stage was to create a black and white line rough based on the brief. I went round the park with them and took photographs of particular places that they wanted to be included.

B&W Rough

Creating the artwork
Once the rough had been approved, I moved on to the artwork stage. I painted each of the elements separately so that I didn't have to worry about the sizes being too fiddly to draw. I then scanned the images and put them together on Photoshop, placing each image on a separate layer so that I could move them around and make changes.

Additions and corrections

This is the first artwork I sent. You can see there are a few differences from the final one at the top. The newly instated cycle path had to be added, an addition road name plus more information relating to social media contact information.

A winter break

Above, the final illustration as it appears on the Goodwood Hotel's website and below a couple of work in progress shots.  

                               Also another one of the wintery watercolours on the web page.

Wimbledon Autumn Arts

I'll be drawing in Wimbledon this weekend as part of their Autumn Art weekend.  Here's part of an illustration that I drew for the 'Love Wimbledon' website.

Sydenham Garden

Recent illustration commission.

Bridges of London

Work in progress

Work in progress

Work in progress

Work in progress

Work in progress

Grants

House of Illustration Christmas Fair

Grants

London Road

A compilation of the illustrations that I've been working on recently showing buildings along the busy London Road in Croydon.  Drawn as a commissioned piece, an A2 print is now available in my Etsy shop.

Anyone would think it was Christmas!

Work in progress

Shopping

In the post

I was asked, earlier this year, by poet Laurie Bolger, to do a watercolour painting for her debut collection. I received the printed copy today and was blown away by her beautiful poems of everyday life and relationships.

You can find out more about the book by following the link to the publisher at https://burningeyebooks.wordpress.com/

Cover story

The September cover image of the 'Croydon Citizen' features one of my illustrations.