Tag: Illustration

  • Car Art

    Drawing cars for cash.

    MGB Car Illustration by Chris Hathway for Webazoot Industries

    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.

    Ford Model A Vintage Car Illustration by Chris Hathway for Webazoot Industries

    MG Rover MGTF Car Illustration by Chris Hathway for Webazoot Industries

    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*.

    See the full range on the TeePublic and Redbubble websites.

    *I am yet to sell a shower curtain sadly.

  • 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.

  • Mengage – Illustrations and Website

    It was great to be asked to work with a previous client 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 illustrationI 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Roadside Illustration

    a couple of years ago I helped a friend of a friend get a website up and running for his clothing printing business. He offered several times to print something up for me but I couldn’t decide what. Two or so years on and another reminder has lead to this…

    Roadside street view illustration
    Illustration for T-shirt

    I’m quite happy with it, I’d probably like to do another draft and tidy up some of the parts I’m not completely happy with but then I always seem to want to do another draft to tidy up a couple of things. I’m looking forward to seeing it on a shirt.

    Also last month produced a CD cover illustration but I’m not sure I can talk about that yet so I won’t…