Illustration
Unlikely Architecture : Pocklington Redux 2025
Pocklington Illustrated Back in 2018 I started drawing various buildings from my hometown of Pocklington. It’s a very picturesque town with many pubs and restaurants situated in very traditional architecture. The original series helped me through the various COVID lockdowns. Stuck at home and nothing to do. The style of these illustrations were fairly cartoonish, … Read more
Unlikely Stories
These illustrations came out the back of another Domestika course that I completed during lockdown. Mattias Adolfsson is an amazing artist who creates these extremely detailed pieces with a fountain pen and watercolour. His work really connected with me and you can probably see his influence in these works. As a child I really enjoyed … Read more
Architecture : Likely & Unlikely
I’ve turned my interest back to architecture this weekend as I started a new course on Domestika with a brilliant artist called Albert Kiefer who I have followed for quite a while now on Instagram. His free and open style has really inspired me to revisit the illustrations I did for my home town of … Read more
Unlikely Weapons in Procreate
During the winter of 2024, in the lead up to Christmas, I managed to click with Procreate after a walking through a good training course on Udemy. I’ve not finished it yet, but it taught me how to build a picture up using Layers and merging my additions. It’s a great way to paint without … Read more
Unlikely : Cars & Trucks
This post was brought to you by Cardiacs brilliant live album Special Garage Concerts Vol I & II. I don’t know the details of the recordings but it’s later in their career and the closest album to this brilliant track on Youtube that I love to listen to time and again. The Sketch I spent … Read more
AIR-007 Service Pistols
Guns are back in the sketchbook this week. They are just an irresistible doodle for me and I loaded these two during a family week off at home in front of the TV while listening to Four Tet’s new album called “Three”. Not available on Youtube, but here’s a really good Live DJ session from … Read more
Martin’s Retiring
This is latest of a series of illustrations that started from an online course on Domestika with Mattias Adolfsson. I love the small details in his artwork, you spend ages finding little things that surprise you or puzzle you. This piece was made for a colleague and friend, so the details are all in-jokes, so … Read more
Unlikely Weapons 2022
I have been drawing guns for years now. Grandiose, fantastical and most likely completely dysfunctional weaponry that looks good. I grew up watching movies such as Star Wars, Predator, Alien. All movies with fantastic weaponry depicted in them and somebody somewhere had dreamt them up to look the part, without worrying about how they would … Read more