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Documentary filmmaking, storyboarding, illustration and character building, fashion creatures, garment design and creation, sculptural work, prosthetic makeup, sculptural studies of the human form, fabric illustrations, fashion illustration, mannequin drapery, sculptural fashion

I am interested in illustration, film, prosthetics, and textile design focusing on capturing and creating movement.

Fish series inspired by a banknote

Inspiration is everywhere!

I was taken by these mackerel on a Scottish fiver, drew one of them in fine liner, and adapted and refined the picture into a series of characters and stamps over the course of a year.

I wanted to stylise this beautiful figure, and bring his vacant stare to life.

Keep scrolling to see how personality, charm, and emotion are developed…

Character development…
…the eyes are the window to the soul

…A sinister smirk…

A reassuring wink…

A benevolent smile…

A knowing look….

So much can be conveyed by adjusting mouth expression or eye shape

Anticipatory…

A fearful glance…

Shocked…

Breathing life…

My characters are developed in small sparkly ways in a sketchbook

I try to focus on how to grasp a sense of movement, motion, and character through mark making.

Here I wanted to create a friend come to the rescue, a sense of glee and anticipation…

Comparative studies help me focus on what I’m trying to express

A twinkle in the eye …

…the flutter of an eyelash…

… the swish of a tentacle…

… all in pursuit of making my creatures dynamic, wise, benevolent, withholding…

Here we have an octopus and a squid.

One is a lifeless study of shape, movement, light under water…

…the other is a snapshot of an angry, vindictive character with a furrowed brow…

Developing characters inspired by the real world

Wanted to embue my drawings with the charm and eccentricity of these vegetables...
Crafting my friendly dinosaur into something which seems about to speak!
Alternative tails...
Tired spikey dragon...
Daydreamer...
Legs?

F l a t t e n i n g

Ink on paper

Ink on acetate

Lino print: ink on paper

Lino carvings (stamps)

Lino stamp on paper

Development of cheeky, sinister, benevolent fishy characters into striking lino print stamps. Revised and reworked below. Stylised but inanimate.

Lino carving (stamp)

Characters in colour

Dogs see in dichromatic colour - a range of blues and yellows.

Hedgehogs see a range of browns.

Who lurks on the pink planet…?

See some miscellaneous colourful creatures and drawings below, and have a look at the ‘armour’ page to see some creature development through fashion illustration.