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Leonardo DiCapri-Sun

2012-01-25T14:26:00.000-08:00

Sorry I couldn't help this - it's been in my head for a while and I had to exorcise the bad pun.

Aristocrat Comedy

2012-01-23T13:44:00.000-08:00

Here's a logo and poster I've done for my good friend Fred/Peter from the newly formed Aristocrat Comedy Night in Aylesbury. Click on the poster and marvel at who has the honour and prestige of being bottom of the bill!

Sneak peek of football screenprint

2012-01-16T07:44:00.000-08:00

Here's a sneak peek of a print I've been working on for a collection of football based designs launching in March with Debra Orton and others. More details soon.

What's on Richard's laptop?

2012-01-12T15:43:00.000-08:00

If, like me, you are a regular viewer of the quiz show gold that is Pointless, then you'll know that you never get to see what is on hilarious adjudicator Richard's laptop. Over the next few days I'll be attempting to guess. If you have any suggestions tweet them using the hashtag #whatsonrichardslaptop and I may well use them.

De-Yoda-ant

2012-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

Thinking of having a picnic down on the swamps of Dagobah? Keep those pesky Yodas off your space food with the NEW De-Yoda-ant from Bespin Mining Products. Click above for full size image.

Juvenile Xmas drawing

2011-12-27T13:02:00.000-08:00

Mince pies

2011-12-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

A Father Christmas card with mince pie badges.

Tis the season for pickled onions...

2011-12-19T03:27:00.000-08:00

...forking difficult to cut.

Xmas people pattern

2011-12-13T13:17:00.000-08:00

Noël

2011-12-01T16:01:00.000-08:00

Seasons Greetings brought to you by Messrs Fielding, Coward, Edmonds and Gallagher

Rizzle Kicks Swizzle Sticks

2011-11-30T16:00:00.000-08:00

Giving your drinks a thoroughly good mix

Spam banners

2011-11-29T14:57:00.000-08:00

That's how I troll

2011-11-25T12:16:00.000-08:00

Hey you guys!!!

2011-10-30T02:00:00.000-07:00

Inspired by last year's Iain Dowie pumpkin I've decided to change the odd-shaped pumpkin I bought yesterday into Sloth from The Goonies

My brain's itchy

2011-10-19T15:43:00.000-07:00

Plasticine Halloween perhaps?

Obstetrician Kenobi

2011-09-17T16:04:00.000-07:00

I love a pun - Use the force/Use the forceps - I'll get my coat!

PS. if you like rubbish Star Wars jokes I also did this card a couple of Christmases ago.

Plasticine Tatooine update

2011-09-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

A quick Plasticine Tatooine update to say that, to date, the book has been a great success and that I've not got too many of my original run left. This has been thanks in part to some great features in the likes of The Guardian Guide, Guardian news app (below) and Guardian online here. The sculpted Star Wars rejects also appear in the September issue of Creative Review (bottom) and on the Creative Review Blog here (the comments on CR blog make me chuckle!). Click here to learn more about Plasticine Tatooine.

Look what I made...

2011-08-14T09:50:00.000-07:00

...the baby grow and it's contents.

My eldest daughter and I have got matching Luton Town football shirts, man do we look cool (I know). She loves it though and here's a pic of us two geeks in the full getup to prove it. Also in that pic is our latest arrival, they didn't do a kit for a two month old so I thought I'd make one myself.

Not exactly a work of art as the colour kept bleeding, but it looks good from a distance - poor girl.

Plasticine Tatooine

2011-08-13T13:54:00.000-07:00

Plasticine Tatooine is a 100% unofficial and completely made up collection of intergalactic nonsense featuring some of the more rubbish Star Wars characters sculpted lovingly from plasticine by my own fair hand. Find out more here www.plasticinetatooine.com

Happy B'day

2011-07-16T04:53:00.000-07:00

An idea I had for a Birthday card - feel free to click on the smaller image and print out the higher resolution image if you fancy making an anal hygiene themed greetings card for a friend (or enemy).

Faces on badges

2011-07-08T14:38:00.000-07:00

I noticed the deadline for the stereohype annual badge fest was fast approaching so I thought I'd sneak these three faces under the wire so to speak.

Get Stuffed comedy logo

2011-07-08T07:42:00.000-07:00

This is a logo I drew quite a few years back for Get Stuffed which is an excellent comedy club in Tring. If you're wondering why the logo is made of stuffed animals, that's because Tring's other main attraction is this bonkers museum full of stuffed animals (and hence the side-splitting strap line).

The reason I've decided to put it on the blog now is because I've just finished an eight week stand-up comedy course culminating in my first gigs in front of actual paying punters. Read all about it here. The first two of my four planned gigs went well but then I got a call to say my partner had gone into labour with our second child and was now fully dilated so I had to make a 30 minute drive to hospital to get there in time for the birth - I did make it but only after driving like Steve McQueen (except in a Toyota Yaris!)

Anyway, I really enjoyed the two sets I did manage so I'm hoping to do more soon but if you're ever in the area check out Get Stuffed as they attract some great established and up-and-coming acts and their Tringe Festival is currently in full flow with some top nights still to come.

A new season awaits.

2011-07-06T02:35:00.000-07:00

The fixtures for next season have been released, hard to believe it all starts again in just over a month. Here is a short post (written before Claude left) detailing exactly what I would like from the Town next season over on fellow illustrator, Debra Orton's blog. Above is a picture of Sir Michael of Harfordshire just because.

Cryptic Triptych

2011-07-03T03:17:00.000-07:00

Arrrrrrrr! It's Pinkbeard the pirate

2011-06-22T13:53:00.000-07:00

A jolly pirate painting for my daughter's new bedroom.

PJ Harvey

2011-06-19T02:05:00.000-07:00

Drawn on the iPhone Brushes app

Twitter Pie

2011-06-08T16:36:00.001-07:00

What happens when you cross Tweety with the Twitter logo

Nuns in Reebok Classics

2011-05-04T15:35:00.000-07:00

My own personal highlight of the Royal wedding were these two nuns sporting Reebok Classics - Go sisters!

Well safe innit

2011-04-13T14:45:00.000-07:00

Something I've been up to lately...

2011-03-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

Zombie Valentine's Linocut

2011-02-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

Cruising my local Clinton Cards in the weeks before Valentine's Day I noticed a cavernous gap in the market. There are all sorts of slushy teddy bear and bunny rabbit cards available but I couldn't find any that feature reanimated corpses or internal organs being eaten.
As I was sure that there must be a huge market for this kind of card I immediately set about rectifying the situation through the medium of linocut.
Pictures of the process (I'd forgotten how laborious linocutting is not to mention how high the risk of hand gouging is) along with the three finished hand coloured prints can be seen below.

Carving

Inking

Printing

Click on the images below to get high resolution artwork which you can download, print and make into a Valentine's card of your own. I'm sure your loved ones would be delighted to receive an original living dead message of love this February 14th.
Enjoy – I'm off to go and see if anyone from Clinton's or Moonpig.com are interested!

PS. while you are free to download and use the images for personal use please don't go using my cards for commercial gain as that would make me very sad indeed.

Guess Poo?

2011-01-04T12:16:00.000-08:00

I've recently had a seasonal surge of interest in my Guess Poo board game. Click here for more details and close up shots.

2010 - an eggy montage

2010-12-31T11:57:00.000-08:00

In 2010 I painted lots of footballers on to boiled eggs for The Times' World Cup campaign. They were a real success and appeared everywhere during the summer months unlike the real England football team who cracked and lasted just a couple of weeks in South Africa. Click here for a better view.

Flight of the Conchords Christmas card

2010-12-12T16:33:00.001-08:00

I've just finished my 2010 Christmas card featuring a festive FOTC band meeting. There is a high resolution version if you click on this image, please feel free to download and make your own card.

Enjoy and have a cracking Christmas.

UPDATE
Murray Hewitt himself, the great Rhys Darby has seen the card and tweeted it to his followers, I'm starstruck!

Peter Siddle

2010-11-25T13:11:00.000-08:00

A quick sketch of the Aussie bowler who knocked the stuffing out of England yesterday. Painted by finger using the Brushes app on my iPhone. The app has a cool feature which records all of your brush strokes and allows you to replay them as an animation - see below.

Ultra limited edition Ashes screen prints

2010-11-18T15:23:00.000-08:00

Today I spent an extremely enjoyable day re-learning how to screen print (a noble art which I last practised back when I was at school) courtesy of Print Club's excellent beginners workshops.

Above are a few shots of the fruits of my labour – a set of my 2010-11 Ashes drawings which are now available to buy.

The A4 prints are hand drawn, hand printed, hand trimmed (with Andrew Strauss' bat breaking out of the image) and hand signed in a ridiculously small run of just 20.

The prints are a chocolate brown ink on an off-white 300gsm paper. Each print is unique, none of them are perfect but I think the flaws only add to the retro Wisden's feel that I was after.

Each print costs £10 including P&P – email me at elliott.quince@ntlworld.com if you are interested.

UPDATE
All the prints have now been sold – sorry to those of you who emailed and didn't manage to get one.

The Ashes are coming...

2010-11-01T16:41:00.000-07:00

Iain Dowie Pumpkin

2010-10-30T16:30:00.000-07:00

This should scare the kids!

A new suspect in cricket's match fixing scandal

2010-10-27T13:26:00.001-07:00

Halloween – Men who like skeletons

2010-10-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

A skeleton themed picture featuring mad scientist Dr. Gunther von Hagens and Who bassist John Entwistle

Hand Drawn

2010-10-11T14:19:00.000-07:00

Each and every goal a hotly disputed penalty...

2010-10-05T03:45:00.000-07:00

A Half Man Half Biscuit inspired picture t

Signed John Obi Mikel portrait

2010-10-02T12:04:00.000-07:00

I’m pleased to announce that on top of the £6,633 that I’ve already raised for the Luton & Dunstable Hospital NICU appeal through my Got, got, got, need!.' project I will also be adding the proceeds from the sale of this signed portrait of Chelsea’s John Obi Mikel.

More details can be found here.

Virtual Reality

2010-08-26T15:33:00.000-07:00

A tribute to the humble Viewmaster, my favourite disks when I was little were CHiPs, The Littlest Hobo and The Fall Guy – those were the days! Click here to zoom.

Set of badges

2010-08-24T14:39:00.000-07:00

A set of three badges with a euphemistic theme which I am entering into the Stereohype annual badge competition.

OutSmart

2010-07-22T16:35:00.000-07:00

An Innerspace inspired illustration for the Smart car 'OutSmart' book project headed up by Gemma Randall.

Limited edition Got, got, got, need! prints for sale

2010-07-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

Due to demand on my GGGN! canvasses far outweighing supply (and also because a lot of people have emailed me to say they'd buy one if I did it) I am now selling commemorative prints featuring all 32 portraits in a very limited run of just 100. Each A3 print will be hand signed and numbered. Find out how to buy here but be quick!

UPDATE: Creative Review are giving away print number 1 to a lucky blog reader, find out more here

Got, got, got, need! launch night

2010-06-30T13:37:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who attended the launch night of GGGN! earlier this month, I was really pleased with the turnout. It was great to meet some of the people who had bought portraits and put faces to emails. Above all it was a really successful evening raising loads of money for the Luton and Dunstable NICU.

Test for The Times

2010-06-26T13:01:00.001-07:00

If you live or work in London or have read The Times lately then you may well have seen the World Cup campaign which I have illustrated, consisting of the England team painted on boiled eggs (see poster and paper below). Here's a test I did where, as well as painting on the eggs, I stuck things like paper, wool and sequins on to them.

Got, got, got, need!

2010-05-04T02:49:00.001-07:00

I’m proud to announce that I'll be showing 32 portraits of footballers throughout the World Cup as part of a charity illustration exhibition, click here for more details.

Upcoming exhibition teaser

2010-03-31T12:48:00.000-07:00

This is a teaser to my upcoming exhibition – more details as and when, all I can say is it's not finished yet and it's a labour of love.

Evil test card clown

2010-03-30T04:05:00.000-07:00

Creative Review Illustration Annual

2010-02-23T14:48:00.000-08:00

Here is my attempt at a customisation of the Creative Review Illustration Annual Logo – the best 5 versions receive free entry into the annual

And here is the original logo

You can see my customisation and others at the Creative Review Feed site here

Rollover punk!

2010-02-05T03:37:00.000-08:00

The right to bare arms

2010-01-25T08:14:00.001-08:00

Tuesday's Friday Joke – 1

2010-01-16T05:30:00.000-08:00

Posted a day late – but here's our daughter's first foray into the world of stand-up comedy!

Here's a pic of the real Tuesday admiring herself

Cuban Rubiks

2010-01-06T13:02:00.001-08:00

Zombie rubber ducky

2010-01-06T02:26:00.001-08:00

First post of 2010 – I've given a quick living dead makeover to one of Tuesday's rubber ducks.

UPDATE

If you like Zombies you'll love this set of three Zombie Valentines cards that I made.

Click here for the other two

How much is that doggy in the window?

2009-12-16T13:11:00.000-08:00

It could be an intellectual comment on how society values women or it could just be an excuse to draw breasts on dogs – you decide.

Guess Poo

2009-12-08T05:05:00.000-08:00

The fun, faeces game for the family – A 9th birthday present for my nephew!

UPDATE
Here's a pic of George looking bemused whilst receiving Guess Poo

The Dark Side of Christmas

2009-12-02T06:54:00.001-08:00

It's an oldie but a goodie!

The key to my Beatles pic

2009-11-27T01:21:00.000-08:00

You'll need to click on the image to read it properly, Click here to see the original illustration.

After the muck-spreader incident, Jane's parasol was never mocked again.

2009-11-25T12:48:00.000-08:00

#6 of 6 in my 'Crap Forgeries' series

David's method of keeping the neighbours out of his pool was extreme but effective.

2009-11-25T12:43:00.000-08:00

#5 of 6 in my 'Crap Forgeries' series

Colin had fallen for the old 'superglue in the shampoo bottle' trick yet again.

2009-11-24T15:18:00.000-08:00

#4 of 6 in my 'Crap Forgeries' series

Dora had been warned about the perils of over-enthusiastic nose blowing.

2009-11-21T12:33:00.000-08:00

#3 of 6 in my 'Crap Forgeries' series

Vincent's evening classes in taxidermy were about to be put to good use.

2009-11-21T12:18:00.000-08:00

#2 of 6 in my 'Crap Forgeries' series

With the cardboard decoy in place Mona could go shopping free from unwanted attention.

2009-11-21T10:33:00.000-08:00

#1 of 6 in my 'Crap Forgeries' series

Spot the 20 Beatles song references

2009-11-20T04:45:00.000-08:00

This poster commissioned for Keith and Zayba contains references to 20 Beatles songs, some are easier to spot than others can you get them all?

Hello Goodbye

2009-11-19T12:44:00.001-08:00

Balloon head

2009-11-17T07:17:00.001-08:00

Serge

2009-11-13T01:47:00.001-08:00

UPDATE
My Serge Gainsbourg has appeared on the fantastic DrawSerge illustrative tribute by Jonathon Edwards

Sneak peek

2009-11-12T14:36:00.001-08:00

Here's a cheeky peek of my Beatles themed pic for Keith and Zayba – more to follow soon

Ogre Pumpkin

2009-10-31T11:34:00.001-07:00

A bit of..

2009-10-21T02:12:00.001-07:00

...something I've been working on

Diego Marazombie

2009-10-11T11:46:00.001-07:00

What if Maradona had been a zombie? Would England have won the World Cup in 1986? Who knows?

Kidney Party II

2009-09-30T15:07:00.001-07:00

Independent London

2009-09-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

An image for Cutty Sark Whisky bringing together some of the colourful characters from London's past and present.

John Lydon

2009-09-28T14:33:00.000-07:00

Derek and Rodney Trotter

2009-09-28T14:32:00.002-07:00

CEOs of Trotter's Independent Trading

Daley Thompson

2009-09-28T14:32:00.001-07:00

Dizzee Rascal

2009-09-28T14:31:00.000-07:00

Trevor Baylis

2009-09-28T14:30:00.000-07:00

Inventor of the wind up radio

Banksy

2009-09-28T14:29:00.002-07:00

Bobby Moore

2009-09-28T14:29:00.001-07:00

Vivienne Westwood

2009-09-28T14:28:00.000-07:00

Pearly King and Queen

2009-09-28T14:27:00.000-07:00

Damien Hirst

2009-09-28T12:56:00.001-07:00

Winston Churchill

2009-09-28T12:55:00.000-07:00

David Beckham

2009-09-28T12:54:00.001-07:00

Henry Cooper

2009-09-28T12:53:00.001-07:00

Mick Jagger

2009-09-28T12:52:00.000-07:00

Alex from Clockwork Orange

2009-09-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

Glacéau Vitamin Water Glasto Cats

2009-09-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

Puns

2009-09-02T12:49:00.001-07:00

Guess Who

2009-08-31T08:40:00.000-07:00

The full set – click to enlarge

Making Joe

2009-08-31T08:00:00.000-07:00

The making of Joe from my Guess Who set

iPhone Characters 3

2009-08-31T06:46:00.000-07:00

More iPhone finger painting

Chinstrokers

2009-08-31T05:51:00.000-07:00

Illustrations for a compilation of 'music to stroke beards by'

How I made the afro kid

2009-08-31T05:31:00.000-07:00

An animation showing how one of my iPhone characters was created