Category: Site News

  • Yet another social network…

    I do quite like photo blogging, see The view from the office, but at the same time I really couldn’t face another social network and I kind of enjoy doing it anonymously* or at least without much thought or the pressure I feel if I’m putting my name to the images.

    I signed up for Instagram a while back, admittedly under my own name, but I didn’t use it very much other than uploading the occasional image I’d taken that I liked or that marked something specific. I didn’t post any descriptions or tags, just liked having a photoblog I didn’t have to think deeply about. I also enjoyed the additional task of making a square composition (Something that has now been completely ruined by the changes made to the platform).

    I’d forgotten that sometime ago it was bought by facebook and while I had chosen not to link the two it seems facebook looked at my details it has, decided to put two and two together, and invited all my facebook friends to follow me there.

    I’m still resolutely not adding twenty hashtags to each and every post so I refuse to fully play their game but yes, I’m coming out! I am on instagram (very occasionally). Find me @chrishathway.

    So to start here is a photo from Brimham Rocks, which were resolutely more impressive and enjoyable than the National Trust website suggested – if you are in the area, do go check them out

    Brimham Rocks via Instagram

    (I should warn any potential visitors that its £7 on the car park and theres no change machine. Or you could just risk it…)

    *I can’t tell you about my other photo blogs, well, because…


  • New Website

    Three year old ‘new’ website launch…

    Hathway Creative Logo

    While I have owned the domain for about five years now, and been working solely under that banner for over three, it took me until last month to finally launch a new, wholly work based, website for Hathway Creative.

    I saw a local website design company employ a third party to build their site a while ago and admit I kind of scoffed at it at the time. Given the time its taken me to get to this stage, perhaps that might not have been a completely bad idea after all.

    The combination of wanting to get things completely and absolutely right along with regular interruptions from more urgent (paid) work and also the fact I wanted to cover both the Illustration side of the work I do, and the Website Design side while also outlining some of the other creative services and solutions projects have called upon in a way that, hopefully, makes sense and is easy to navigate just took a little time to work out.

    Website Design Services

    Graphic Design Services

    Comic Strip Illustration

    Poster and Website Banner Design

    Comic Book/Graphic Novel Artwork

    It is a relatively simple and straightforward website still, with several featured projects on the home page and pages detailing the illustration and web work I do – Do please take a look at the all new Hathway Creative website and if you’d like to hire me for something, please do get in touch.


  • The Waiting Room

    i‘ve spent a fair bit of time waiting in various doctors and hospital waiting rooms over the past six months so it was easy to get into the mood of this new cover illustration for S. C. Lees short story ‘The Waiting Room.’

    The Waiting Room - Book cover Illustration

    Find out more about the short story at the authors website* or buy the story direct from Amazon.

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  • Merry Christmas Redux

    Merry Christmas

    In lieu of a new piece I’ll re use this one from 2007 and hope nobody notices. Been a hectic year with one thing and another. Aiming for more artwork related type updates and jobs next year!

    Merry Christmas one and all.

  • Update

    nope, not a site update, just updated to the latest version of the site software.

    I didn’t like the new style admin of version 2.5 so after installing it I spent about three hours rolling my site back. however you can’t fight progress and luckily the admin has changed again, and while I’m not sure if I prefer it to how things use to be, I’ll just have to get on with it.

    At least the site still seems to be here so thats all good…

  • New artwork soon…

    Suicide Hill, 10x7 ink and gouache, 1999.

    Honest.