So I should really be drawing but instead it seems I’ve* started a podcast…
*I should say ‘we have‘ started a podcast as my role in this was largely the editing and sound design, which I really enjoyed, and it was conceived and written by my good friend Dan.
I am a big fan of audio drama, radio four extra etc, and it was great to have a go at this kind of thing and to turn was was a short film script into a radio play.
The BBC currently have a large archive of downloadable Sound Effects on their website, which is really nice to see. Although the terms and licensing page is… well, a bit of a mess.
Twenty eight years (wow.) since we made our last film together The Chris & Dani Show is back with what, I think, is our 7th production.
Here is the teaser trailer for the film.
Set in a British coastal town on a wintry Christmas Eve two old friends meet for a yearly catch up… only for some dark and sinister events to catch up with them instead.
Album cover illustration and package design for the new album from Sid Griffin.
Following on from the recent digital single cover we illustrated Sid asked me if I could help with the cover to his new solo album. I was of course supper happy to do so. What started as just the cover illustration became the full package design and print ready artwork for both the LP and the CD.
While I have produced artwork for a few book and album covers creating the full four colour artwork files for the whole package was at the edge of my comfort zone and I’m very grateful for the help of Jon Krop from the label who checked over my print artwork, spotted a couple of things, and ensured the whole thing came out as it should.
Some of the early illustration and designs we worked thorough.
I worked up a handful of ideas and met up with Sid to take some reference photos. We went back and forth on what we liked and what suited the material. Sid had liked the aged look of the digital single I created so we leaned into that through the whole cover artwork to give things a bit of an aged look… which kind of reflected some of the themes of the album.
I was really pleased with how it all turned out, as was Sid I’m happy to say. While I’ve done some CD covers in the past working on the whole package design and having the space of a gatefold sleeve to work with on the record was great. You can read a bit more about this project over on my work website.
Take a listen to a sample from the album below and if you’d like to hire me to do something like this, please do get in touch.
Recent cover design and illustration for a brand new single from Sid Griffin.
Erm, Happy New Year? Okay, it has been very quiet on here of late, I know. And this website is also long overdue a revamp.
But to keep things ticking over here is a recent cover design and illustration for the brand new solo single from Sid Griffin (of The Long Ryders fame) which I was super happy to be asked to create.
Sid Griffin – The Sound cover art
Really pleased with how it turned out.
If you want to hear the track you can find it in all the usual places including Spotify or check out the video for the single below which I also had a hand in helping create (via my work over at Hathway Creative).
Hopefully I will have more time to post and more news of this nature soon…
I have been drawing some digital car illustrations and graphics for Webazoot since buying an iPad to use for work during the pandemic. I had tried drawing on tablets in the past but, maybe because I could only afford the most basic of them, they never really worked for me. Straight away I found drawing on the iPad really easy, fun to use and it also let me spend time drawing when I wasn’t at my desk.
Originally it started when I was hand drawing some designs for flags friends, involving their cars, I switched designing those over to the iPad, then started drawing some other cars and eventually put them up online for sale.
A couple of my recent favorites are below.
You can buy these car artworks and many, many more I have drawn on a wide variety of products, everything from mugs to T-shirts to socks and shower curtains*.
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