The Walking Bad Men

A mash up of three of my current favourite TV series, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Mad Men. Created using Brushes on the iPad.

Stand up stand-ups. Tringe Festival 2013

The Tringe Festival is the Hertfordshire town of Tring's annual comedy festival. Now in its fourth year, The Tringe features top acts, many from 'off the telly', previewing their shows before they take them up to the Edinburgh Fringe in August.

A couple of months ago, I was approached by Ben Moorhouse, the director of The Tringe, to come up with a concept to help promote the festival and being a fledgling comedian myself (I will be compering at one of the nights) I settled on the 'hilarious' idea of stand up stand-ups.

I set about illustrating 14 of the acts appearing, including Stewart Lee, Ed Byrne and Russell Kane and then created cut-out and crease-up versions of them. These stand ups were then photographed for promotional posters, banners and the event guides.

A5 versions of the stand ups that include the twitter handles of the featured comedians have been produced to encourage people to photograph the acts in funny settings and share online.

Also large 'almost life-size if the comedians were freakishly disproportioned' stand ups were made and have been taking up residency in local shops, sporting events and museums (Tring is famous for it's Natural History museum featuring stuffed animals - Ed Byrne was lucky enough to take a tour).

Some of the real life comedians have stopped by for a photo opportunity with their illustrated doubles including Richard Herring, Tony Law and Ed Byrne.

There has been lots of local involvement including Tring Brewery creating 'Rib Tickler' a custom comedy ale (guffaw percent alcohol!).

The results so far for the Festival have been great - the biggest pre-festival ticket sales to date with several of the 21 shows already sold out as I write this.

It all kicks off on Sunday 30th June and lasts for three whole weeks, the standard of the acts is of an unbelievable calibre for a town the size of Tring so do get along if you can. Full details are at the Tringe website www.tringefestival.co.uk.

All in all, a really fun project that combines both work and pleasure (that's me below making them laugh at last year's Tringe).

Size matters not

An officially licensed baby grow featuring some of the more diminutive Star Wars characters

Sign-ups.com

Some recent illustrations and animations for the online deals website sign-ups.com

Sir Al-eggs Ferguson...

...is finally retiring 

May the Fourth Be With You

A few Star Wars illustrations for May the Fourth. R2D2 from when he was converted into a mobile drinks dispenser by Jabba the Hutt and then Yoda using the force to raise Luke's swamped X-wing fighter on Dagobah - enjoy!

Stand up stand-ups

Here's the poster I've been working on for the 2013 Tringe Comedy Festival featuring a selection of stand up cardboard stand-ups. This year promises to be another cracker with some of the best comedians in the business sure to make festival-goers crease up – find out more about the Tringe here.

Tringe Comedy Festival work in progress

A point for each one you can name: Work in progress stand up stand-ups for this years Tringe Comedy Festival.

Love eggs!

I recently gave some eggs a space rocket makeover as part of a self-promotional Easter image for photographer Jonathan Knowles. By all accounts Jonathan had a lot of fun in the studio creating egg yolk jet streams and whisking up some smoke from the egg whites.

Culinary coat of arms

Part of a set of illustrations that I've recently completed for a corporate catering company.

Did I mention that I paint on eggs?

Here's a test illustration for another egg-based project that I've worked on recently – more info to follow soon.

Fowl Mood for iD Gum

Fowl Mood, the third and final game that I've illustrated for iD Gum, is possibly my favourite. The aim is simply to flick seed into the chicken's mouth – if you miss then he starts getting angrier until he turns into a raging redneck rooster. There is also a bonus disco mode to unlock – obviously. The chaps at Chunk Games and Droga5 take all the credit for putting the brilliant campaign together, the apps are available to download here.

Some iPad drawings

Three unrelated iPad drawings created with the Brushes app, I present PowerPoint Ninja, Jolly Jelly and Giant killing - enjoy.

Zombie Valentines tees

A while back I made these Zombie Valentines linocut prints – the good folk at WeLoveFine.com have now made them available to buy as Tshirts. Click here to get your hands on them.

GIF me strength!

Just to make it three annoying animated GIFs in a row, here's a bit of something I'm working on at the minute.

Bacon Air

Flying pigs from the unlockable bonus mode in 'Blowhole in one', the iD Gum golf game that I illustrated. Available to download free here.

Not on paper

Sometimes I get to draw on things other than paper, to see what I mean click on the 'Not on paper' button above.

Official Star Wars Tee

Here's my second officially licensed Star Wars T-shirt entitled 'Honk if you love Star Wars' – available to buy here from Welovefine.com more designs to come soon.

This is my first one, 'Hands up if you love Star Wars click here to buy

Rude Dolph

Each one of this years Christmas cards came with an individually rendered (reindeered?) swear word. As this is a family-friendly website I've pixelated the below image, I'll leave it up to you to imagine the exact level of coarse language featured on each card.

Drawing on windows

Here's a communication/technology themed mural I did recently on the windows of Steelcase's London office for their 'Living on video' event, click to make them bigger – more images including some live drawing I did at the actual event to come soon.