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About
Hello, I'm a freelance illustrator based in the UK.
I was born in London, and started out in illustration with work for fantasy & horror small press magazines in the '80s, in particular the H.P. Lovecraft-devoted Dagon. My first professional commissions came from Games Workshop for their magazine White Dwarf, and this began a long relationship with the company, illustrating lots of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay publications and the very first Warhammer 40,000 book, as well as many other GW books and boardgames. I've also done game-related material for other publishers, including covers and internal illustrations for twenty-two (I think) of the Fighting Fantasy series from Puffin Books/Wizard Books, and card art for Magic: The Gathering from Wizards of the Coast.I've also produced artwork for various publishers around the world including Scholastic, Time-Warner, HarperCollins and Oxford University Press, illustrating popular authors such as Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist and Harry Turtledove, as well as some classics including Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and The Silver Sword. I was fortunate enough to receive the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist.
I illustrated the book accompanying the album release of Misterstourworm & the Kelpie's Gift, an orchestral work based on stories and characters from Scottish legend. My artwork was used as large-scale backdrops for live performances of the work by The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, with narration by Lord of the Rings actor Billy Boyd.
As an author, I've written some books about digital art including Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop and Digital Horror Art, and edited Fantasy Art Now published by Collins. In addition to work in publishing, I occasionally do concept and production art for computer games (following two years as an in-house artist at Eidos Interactive), and film and television productions which have included the BAFTA-nominated The Magician of Samarkand for the BBC, and most recently Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Fox.
Currently: October 2015: My latest picture book The Crocodolly was published in hardback by Scholastic last month, and is available in Australia, New Zealand, and soon to be released throughout Asia in English, also with a translation into Chinese. The Crocodolly is something of a companion to my earlier picture book The Octopuppy which has been doing pretty well internationally -- more info at www.theoctopuppy.com Right now I'm working on my next picture book; so most of my energies have been directed towards my books for children. But I've also just finished another album cover for Axel Rudi Pell, which is the fifth sleeve I've done for his records. I've also been doing a little bit of work on the Game of Thrones computer game.
News
Legend of Zagor on the telly
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Here's a TV ad for the Legend of Zagor boardgame from Hasbro/Parker which I illustrated back in '93. Hear Patrick Mower's voice and despair.
And a version of the ad that appeared on TV in Greece:
Hour of the Beast
Saturday, February 11, 2012
I did the cover artwork for this novel by C. Michael Forsyth.
Visit Michael's site where you can buy the book, as well as T-shirts and posters featuring the cover artwork. Here's Michael at the New York Comic Con:
Character Roughs
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Here's a look at three rough designs I did last year; these were my initial versions of the principal characters in the Mirabilis graphic novel project.
This one's of Estelle in saucy goth vamp mode, having swigged some Jekyll juice:
My take on The Kind Gentleman:
Young Jack Ember:
...here's how I later depicted Jack in colour (click on thumb for bigger pic):
Midgard
Thursday, October 8, 2009
My Eye of the Dragon image has been used as the cover for Midgard by Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein, the first in a series of fantasy titles published in Germany by Suddeutche Zeitung. Here's a copy of the book, plus some info about it and the rest of the series:
New Fighting Fantasy covers
Monday, September 7, 2009
A glimpse of the covers for the new editions of the Fighting Fantasy books. The first four books have just been published, and the others are due for release in 2010. Five of the covers feature artwork of mine... the cover here for Night of the Necromancer, a brand new title by Jonathan Green, is just a mock-up.
Howl of the Werewolf trailer
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Here's a promo video for the Fighting Fantasy book Howl of the Werewolf. It's been put together by the book's author Jonathan Green, using my cover and internal illustrations. Visit Jon's excellent blog, Unnatural History.
And buy yourself a copy of Howl of the Werewolf here.
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