Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Tringe illustrations - more feedback
Well, the 2013 Tringe Comedy Festival has sadly come to a close but I've been lucky enough to have been sent this amazing video with a selection of some of the best comics currently on the scene talking about my illustration work.
The comedians featured include, Josh Widdicombe, Stewart Lee, Ed Byrne, Simon Evans, Terry Alderton, Richard Herring, Alex Horne, Tony Law and Seann Walsh to name but a few.
The project was an absolute joy to work on and I'm told that most of the comics are now in possession of their respective life-size stand-ups!
Special thanks to DeeTV for the video.
I see dead people
A Star Wars tee featuring the ghosts of Anakin Skywalker, Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi. It has navigated the choppy waters of the Lucasarts approval process and is now available to buy here from We Love Fine.
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Some top comics talking about my work
A fantastic week one video of the Tringe featuring, amongst others, comedians Alex Horne, Tony Law and Seann Walsh as they talk about the festival and my illustrations.
My favourite quote has to be this from Stewart Lee "It's a sort of Reed Richards haired, balding, alcoholic cheeked, middle aged man, the only thing that's improved here is I don't look quite so fat in this"
Thanks to DeeTV for the video can't wait to see the next two instalments!
Here are some screen grabs from the film:
Saturday, 6 July 2013
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.
Sunday, 23 June 2013
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).
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Saturday, 4 May 2013
May the Fourth Be With You
Monday, 15 April 2013
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.
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
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.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
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.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Monday, 11 March 2013
Did I mention that I paint on eggs?
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.
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
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.
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
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.
Friday, 11 January 2013
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.
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