One Face, Two Somersaults

More magazinery for you now, and this time it's a couple of pieces for the latest issue of Corel Painter. First up is a portrait that accompanied a walkthrough on blending techniques. Thanks Sarah!




I also contributed a short feature on the calligraphy brushes, and some flowing acrobatics seemed like the ideal way to stop everyone just thinking about using them for writing:

Another Year, Another Bunch of Amazing Illustrators

As an illustrator myself, I feel very fortunate that I also get to meet lots of talented artists through my written work. At the end of last summer I profiled twenty fresh faces on the scene for Computer Arts Projects. I guess it must have turned out okay, as they asked me to do it again this year:



Thanks to everyone who contributed, namely (deep breath) Angel D'Amico, Tina Berning, Jérémie Decalf, Gregory Gilbert-Lodge, Damara Kaminecki, Paco Raphael Krijnen, Douglas Lee, Radim Malinic, Pierre Marie, Gabriel Moreno (pictured above), Mike Perry, Corinna Radcliffe, Robin Richardson, Rachel Salomon, Serge Seidlitz, Alberto Seveso, Jim Stoten, Junichi Tsuneoka, Sam Weber (pictured below) and Maya Wild. You all rock. Hard.

O2 X Awards

This summer I've been freelancing a fair bit at Archibald Ingall Stretton, and it's included various projects for O2. One of the first of those was a design for the O2 X Awards, which celebrate the UK's most interesting businesses. That's now gone live, so I thought you might fancy a look see...