Old Badger

Exactly as the title says, it's an old badger.

Columns Cryptic Christmas Cracker

I recently created this illustration for the digital Christmas card for Covent Garden based branding agency Columns. The alliteratively titled 'Columns Cryptic Christmas Cracker' features a winter Covent Garden scene crammed with 34 different brands represented cryptically in puntastic pictorial form. The clues range from the blindingly obvious to groaningly fiendish, my personal favourites include Nandos (Nan doze) and Microsoft (My crow soft) both below.

Everyone who successfully names all 34 brands will be entered into a draw and Columns will be donating £250 to the chosen charity of one person drawn at random, the first 10 correct entries also receive a mystery gift. 

Warning - it's quite addictive but Columns are giving clues via twitter!

Monster repeat pattern

A Halloween monster repeat pattern.

Which one's the real Milton Jones?

The surreal one-liner comedian Milton Jones meets the plasticine version of himself that I created for the Tringe comedy Festival.

A tale of two foxes

A bombastic tale of two foxes who love to dance!

Landon Donovan commemorative poster for LA Galaxy

I was asked by LA Galaxy to create a matchday poster for their MLS game against Colorado Rapids. My design features the club captain Landon Donovan (who is retiring at the end of this season after ten seasons at the Galaxy) stood in front of a customised club badge.

Virgin Staff Magazine Illustrations

Two editorial illustrations I did a couple of months ago for Virgin's staff magazine, which for some reason is called 'The Roger Collective'. One article was an employee interview and the other was about health and safety at Disneyland.

Huckletree interiors

I was recently commissioned to turn the bare white walls of Huckletree's sustainable coworking space in Farringdon into something a bit more fun and inspiring. Click here to see the results:

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Thought I'd repost my Charlie and The Chocolate Factory illustration after seeing the new cover design here on the Creative Review blog. Not entirely sure that I like the new photographic cover but then I suppose Willy Wonka was a bit dark so it kind of suits it.
Anyway, here's my effort featuring Charlie Bucket and the rest of the kids meeting their eventual fates.

Tringe Comedy Festival 2014

Just got my hands on this years finished Tringe Comedy festival brochures put together by Saunders Artwork - the plasticine comedians look great in print! It all kicks off next week, full details can be found here.

The Noise Next Door

Stage backdrop illustrations for comedy improv starlets, The Noise Next Door.

2014 World Cup Wallchart

All profits from my World Cup wall chart are being donated to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital Neonatal and Intensive Care Unit. The wallcharts feature colourful characters and memorable footballing moments from past tournaments as well as the mandatory fixture lists and venues map. Find out more here.

Coming soon - 50 England Greats art print

I'm currently putting the finishing touches to an illustration featuring fifty England greats including the likes of Charlton, Gascoigne, Greaves, Lineker and many Moore (Bobby). It will be sold in a limited, signed and numbered run of 50 giclée art prints on quality archival paper (420 x 297mm) - click on the Paypal button below to pre-order a print. Please email me for preorders outside of the UK.

Please note frame is for illustration purposes only.

Colourful keepers

Next up, taking pride of place on my wallchart, are a couple of the 1990's craziest keepers.
On the left is René Higuita, Columbia's 'Sweeper keeper'. Higuita was famous for scoring free kicks, his habit of leaving his goal to dribble the ball up the pitch and also his trademark Scorpion kick . Here is 'El Loco' in probably his most infamous World Cup moment back in 1990.
Next to him is Jorge Campos who played between the sticks for Mexico in the 1994 World Cup in USA. Flamboyant Campos was also partial to a stroll up the pitch but is probably better known for his (self-designed) headache-inducing kits.

Click here to purchase one of my 2014 World Cup wall charts.

Zaïre's crazy defensive wall from 1974

Brazil were shaping up to take a free kick in their group match against Zaïre, but the African defender Mwepu Ilunga had other ideas. Before the referee had signalled for the free kick to be taken, Ilunga decided to break free from the end of the Zaïre wall, run to the ball and boot it as far as he could. Brazil ended up winning 3-0 and Ilunga earned himself a booking in probably one of the funniest moments in World Cup history – watch it here.

– Click here to purchase one of my 2014 World Cup wall charts.

Tringe 2014 plasticine poster

Here's the poster for the 2014 Tringe Comedy festival featuring my plasticine comedians. As well as creating the poster, I will be compering at one night of the festival and performing at another - I may well also be writing the theme tune and singing the theme tune.

May the fourth be with you

Three new officially licensed Star Wars Tshirt designs available from We Love Fine here

More plasticine comedians

Romesh Ranganathan for the Tringe Festival 2014

Romesh Ranganathan is very funny, click here to see the 2013 Fosters Best Newcomer Nominee in action.

Plasticine Tring Comedy Festival work

I've made some plasticine comedian illustrations for this years Tringe Comedy Festival, more images coming soon...

Smörgåsbord

I've illustrated another Smörgåsbord of hilarity for my funny Swedish friend that can be found in issue 8 of OFFLIFE.

AOI Portfolio

Don't waste your time trawling through everything I've ever done – you're a busy person with places to go and people to see. Do yourself a favour and click here for an easy to browse collection of my 'best bits' in my AOI Portfolio.

January Extra Time cartoons

A few Extra Time cartoons that are particularly relevant to January.

A True Grit Jeff Daniels for #DrawCoenBrosCharacters

A True Grit Jeff Daniels for the #DrawCoenBrosCharacters collection from @themooks there are a load more great ones here:

Russian Dolls

Another Fine Meth

A plasticine Laurel and Hardy/Breaking Bad illustration with Stan and Olly emulating Walt and Jesse by cooking up another fine meth.

I thought it might be interesting to show what goes into making one of my plasticine illustrations so below is a one minute, stop motion, time lapse video showing the process from start to finish – enjoy!

I bought myself a badge making machine for Christmas

I bought myself a badge making machine for Christmas, it makes 25mm, 38mm and 45mm diameter badges. Here are my plasticine planets turned into a set of nine badges that use all three sizes. Expect more badge related buffoonery soon.

Officially licensed Star Wars Tshirts

A selection of my officially licensed Star Wars T shirts available to purchase from WeLoveFine.com

Milton Jones made out of Sculpey

Here's a model of the comedian Milton Jones that I've just finished. It's my first experiment using the modelling material Super Sculpey.
This is a test piece for something I'm thinking about doing for this year's Tringe Comedy 
Festival - last year I made these 'stand up stand ups'.
Below the finished painted model of Milton are a couple of process shots showing the baked model being sanded and then given a coat of primer. There may or may not be more, I'm not sure!

EasyJet in-flight magazine cover

I was recently commissioned to illustrate the front cover of the January issue of Traveller, EasyJet's in-flight magazine. The issue featured a story on diving and yoga holidays in Egypt so I was asked to create a heiroglyphic based illustration using plasticine.
Below are some process shots plus an article on the making of the cover that also featured in the issue.