They specifically wanted something that could portray ‘quick fingers’ and they love all things retro, so I decided to experiment with the idea of a robot, something that could quite easily behold, quick fingers. The character came together pretty quickly and while trying to find a great background to present him on, I in turn came across the look for the site! As this look was based on an old school vector grid tunnel, I decided to whip out the Nintendo Virtual Boy from my collection for some further inspiration...any reason to get an old console out and I’m on it! I thoroughly loved this little job!

This project was nothing short of brilliant! When the guys at Voodoo Controllers got in touch and outlined the project, I was very, very excited! Being a new company they needed a new brand, character design, site design, packaging design, 3D prototyping and banner ads...the whole shebang! I knew immediately that this was going to be ace. Everything seemed to flow really naturally too, the brand and character came together really quickly and then the rest of the elements just slotted into place. It was great to work on an e-commerce site that was a little edgy and needed to have more punch than your run of the mill online store. You can take a look at the rest of the work in the other sections of the site. So if you’re in need of a kick ass modded controller, give these guys a shout, they’ve got everything covered!

Stone Skipper was my first full iPhone project, including the in game art, branding, interface design and web site design, awesome! The brief was to create two characters, a young mischievous boy and his cheeky sidekick dog. The pair are always getting into trouble and in this outing they are out stone skipping! To go along with this they needed a world within which to live, so there are LOADS of levels set in different places around the globe. The whole project was a joy to work on and I loved every minute! If you fancy a quick pick up and play game, give it a try, its great!

This was a great little illustration job! Cocos 2D is a kick ass framework for creating 2D iPhone games, one that Chris (the development half of our new independent games company, more info on that coming soon :) discovered in the early stages of creating our first iPhone game (to be released before the end of this year). Ricardo, the creator of this framework allows anyone to use it for free, even commercially, essentially giving his hard work away for free. Both Chris and myself thought it would be great to offer him something in return (as his framework/engine has helped us so much) a new re-brand, giving him something fresh, memorable and professional. The brand already had an existing coconut as its symbol, so I took this on and created a new, much more characterful version, and one that would tie in with the premise of the 2D engine. Ric and his community of games developers gave it a very warm welcome and now use it as their official brand. Great fun.

This is the ‘green with envy’ Stats Envy monster for a new gaming stats site due out later this year. It was a really fun little brief to create an angry, envious little green monster, just the kind of project I like :) I really do love illustration!

This was a great opportunity that arose late 2008, where I was approached by the publishers of this new creative inspiration book series, the Creative Unity, to appear in their first volume as none other than their featured designer! If that wasn’t enough to bowl me over, I was then told that I had the first 6 pages of the book! I was rather took aback by this, but promptly bit their hand of and got busy preparing some work. As it’s what I love most, I decided to focus only on illustration and photography, and put together a huge collage of my characters for the first page (which you can see in detail on the illustration page on this site). It was a real honour to be asked to appear in a such a way and I wish the guys at the Creative Unity a lot of luck for 2009! Thanks guys!

-- Update December 2012 - These characters have now been purchased by Social Games International --
These two cheeky monsters were originally a couple of un-used concepts from an old project that fell into the pile of old sketches. So when I got approached to be the featured artists in a new art book due out later this year (watch this space) I thought it was the perfect time to bring them to life as part of my feature. I’m really pleased with the outcome, they were a comical little pair of monsters!

Well this was a break from the norm. When I was approached by the owner of Miss Clito, an adult toy discussion and shop site, I was taken aback by the request to create a cutesy duck in bondage gear and a gimp mask! As the site isn’t dodgy and is a pretty straight down the line shopping site for adults, I figured ‘what the hell, it’d be fun!’ so off I set creating a cute duck all clad in PVC. Awesome. You’ll notice that there isn’t a link for the site below, that’s just in case any younger folk are checking this out, so to all you web savvy folk out there, I am sure that Google and the name above will help you find the site should you want to take a look ;)

These were a fun little bunch of characters to do! I haven’t been doing much in the way of illustration recently due to a huge influx of more design orientated jobs, I’m not complaining mind, but it’s nice to bring out the sketchpad again and create some funky miners! These were for the guys and gals over at Orekol, a company dedicated to mining safety signage, so these guys will be appearing all over the place apparently, even on the side of a nice big HUMMER!!! Can’t wait to see that!