Category: Illustration

  • Mengage – Illustrations and Website

    It was great to be asked to work with a previous client and now friend on on the set up of a brand new project.

    Mengage is a UK-based not-for-profit company working with males on health and social issues, providing resources, training, consultancy and practical research-based solutions from both national and international practice, backed by years of experience of practical work with men and boys.

    Mengage website illustration

    I contributed both the website, logo and some illustrations to the project. The illustrations were produced both to be used on the website itself and in a number of print publications.

    I’ve wanted to have the opportunity of placing some illustrations within a website layout for some time, stock images are fine but they can sometimes feel, and be, a little generic and forgettable. I think where the illustrations appear within the new website they do help to give the project and a little more depth and a more unique visual identity. The logo was also produced as a metal badge, cut to shape to help with promotion and identity, it came out really well.

    Anyway, click here to visit Mengage, If you are putting a project together, do consider illustration along side stock photography, I may well be biased but I think its an underused option.

    Mengage Website Screenshot

  • Custom Flag Painting

    This was a custom design which was to be hand painted onto a flag. As such the design was just a rough sketch, but that said I do quite like how it turned out.

    I’ll do my best to get a photo of the completed flag when we get a sunny day where the wind is blowing in the right direction!

    Hand painted flag design - front

    Hand painted flag design - rear

    In a roundabout way these car drawings eventually lead to the ‘Weabazoot Industries‘ project.

  • Quick sketch…

    I have a project I’m working on at the moment where I feel some illustrations would bring more to the project than stock photos would. They need to be quite quick to do and relatively simple. So I’ve been trying a few sketches in ink with a quick water colour wash. I think it may work…

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  • FRL Print

    I offered to make a prize for a charity auction a couple of months back which then developed into a short print run of the eventual prize artwork.

    FRL 2013 limited edition print by Chris Hathway

    The artwork/print was won and then given to the organiser of the Friends Round London event, in which a bunch of MG owners drive the circumference of London’s outer ring road on a cold midwinters night with their cars rooves down – its really rather fun, honest.

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  • Papas Train CD Cover Artwork

    From the number of spam comments I’ve just had to delete I’ve clearly been letting things slide here so here is a quick catch up…

    heres a couple of CDs which arrived in the post last week which I was lucky enough to be asked to illustrate the cover artwork for.

    The illustrations been lurking in the portfolio for a while now but the CDs has only just been released. Lovely people to work for and please do go check out their website.

    Papas Train CD Artwork
    Papas Train CD Artwork

    The band is called Papas Train and you can now read and hear more (and buy the CD!) at papastrain.com