Illustration

Tiz & Woz Character Design

Poor Tiz has some problems and it’s not clear his imaginary friend Woz is much help. Woz is the personification of Tiz’s 'lizard brain’ and in a series of comic adventures they must navigate the triggers that cause Tiz his woes.

Early character sketches - Woz was accepted with just a change to his skin colour. Tiz took a few more goes to get right.

Tiz

Woz

Tiz & Woz Comic Strip

The comics were designed to be read with a psychologist supporting the child discussing issues as they went along.

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Everyone’s Talking About Jamie Projected Stage Backgrounds

Everyone’s Talking About Jamie is quite a long show with quite a few scene changes in it. Using back projections and simple staging we were able to create a rich experience for the audience and have quick changes between the scenes. Originally we planned to include some animation in the projections but we quickly found this would distract from the performers. We used the time saved to add more interesting imagery for the song and dance numbers.

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Staggbeetle’s Orphanage

I wrote a book for my daughters. I was full of our in-jokes and reading each new installment to them was huge fun. The story is your typical ophanage tale with most of the prose there to get to the next explosion, bout of sickness or uncontrollable episode of wind.

Here’s a gallery of art style concepts.

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Mazecraft Activity Books

Here a small selection of the large number of illustrations created for the Mazecraft Childrens Activity Book series I worked on.

Mazecraft was a fun children’s story basewd activity book series.

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Family Greetings Cards

What started as a way of getting out of buying greetings cards for friends and family became a happy chore as everyone close aren’t happy unless they get a hand drawn card each year! This extended to celebrate every family event with a suitable drawing.

Events celebrated: birthdays, weddings, school trips, scout trips, exam passes, new homes etc… here’s a small selection.

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Misc Illustration

Self publicity

Drawn as jokey gift for a family wedding.

At a job interview I was once asked whether I would be happier with a horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses. My choice of duck was incorrect. However, despite the duck being an omnivore and the horses being vegetarians, I was sure the duck and I would have been great friends and we would have had great adventures together.

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