A sketch for Gatsby

Whilst designing 'The Great Gatsby' cover below i did another sketch which i eventually moved away from for the final design but i thought seeing as i had done it i should probably finish it. So here it is! She was going to be crying in to a cocktail glass but i never finished drawing the glass, thereby making the image pretty irrelevant to the book but nonetheless a nice image, though she could definitely do with looking a bit sadder.

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is an illustration for a competition over on The Fox is Black website.

Bit un-nerving to be able to see all the other entries there already. Have been wanting to do book covers for a while, this an The Outsider are hopefully the start of something bigger. Not submitted yet, think it might need an additional colour, but i need a break from looking at it ...

********** UPDATE **********

From Kathryn Corlett

So I kinda had just shoved the authors name in there in a font that i had considered using for the title before deciding to do it by hand. Following the original post this was called into question and i decided i had been lazy, i have therefore redone this bit of text and am much happier with it now. Thanks to Mr Velky for the constructive criticism xx

p.s. blogger is driving me crazy i may have to switch, where is the compatibility between picasa and blogger??? they are both made by google for christs sake!!

House of Illustration/Folio Society - The Outsider, Albert Camus // COMPETITION

WAHHHHOOOO!!! Just finished my drawings and entered! To be quite honest I'm rather pleased with how they turned out. They should probably be a bit darker but if I win the other scenes i have picked will be. Wish me luck.

I made a comic ... entered it in a competition ...

innit. fingers crossed.

what they could do, they did // forest cafe, edinburgh // 6th aug (THIS FRIDAY!!!!) // 9pm - 3am

its gonna be fan-blimmin-tastic. come celebrate 10 years of joy at the forest with us! xxxx

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Attitude at Glastonbury

Bit late posting this as its just happened but this is the flyer i did for this years Attitude showcase in the Shangri La Zone at Glastonbury (wish i coulda been there, dagnabbit!) and they finally got through a year without it didn't pissing it down. Was a bit of a drugstore fan back in the day, glad to see they've reformed. Here is the flyer on the glasto website, apparently it was on the front page for a while :) xx

Something a drew ages ago during jury duty ...

stack-o-birds