Eastlake Unlocked!

It's finally out there!

A while ago I posted a sneak peek at a commission I was working on, well here it is! It's a little zine/booklet designed to promote and guide people at the Plymouth city museum exhibition about sir Charles Eastlake, I was commissioned by a group of students called the young explainers to produce the cover illustrations. I'm very happy with how it turned out and most people seem to think it looks like him so I'd say it does it job!

This was a nice brief for me because it gave me the ability to push my skills of portraiture, this is one of my weaker abilities so any chance I get to improve it is great. I also really enjoyed working in a Victorian influenced style, it's something I will definitely be revisiting!

Oh and if anyone is around in Plymouth I would check the museum out, it's pretty good, and this zine free so go grab one!

Artwork For Sale

So ive joined society6 and theres a promo running already! good timing I’d say, just click this link to get free shipping on all artworks! good for 6 days.

seems a bit odd to be promoting myself like this but if any of you out there have ever wanted some of my work now is the time to get it, oh and I'm open to suggestions as to what to put up on the store cos its pretty new to me and I'm not sure what people like. :) 

http://society6.com/Alex_Art?promo=effd7e

Climbing Mountains

Its been a while since I've posted anything on here, so this is what I've been doing with myself for most of the time. This was a commission for a primary school, they wanted me to produce posters to visualise the progression the school kids made in each subject. So I decided to use mountains cos I thought that its a little bit more engaging and interesting compared with the usual target board or medals that were used before. The idea is that the kids each have a flag, which they colour themselves and put their name on, and this flag moves up the mountain along the footsteps to reach each flag-post, which represents each level of progression, the little climbers are just there to make it look better and help the pupils to visual it better. 

This brief was quite enjoyable, it was nice to do something a bit more light hearted after the revelation stuff, it was also nice to have complete control over what I produced. Overall the school was very happy with the final artwork, which means I must be doing something right!  Oh yeah and I now know how to make an invoice, things are starting to feel very professional!  

A Look At Things To Come

Here are 2 Images to give you an idea of what I've been working on lately, these segments are from a commission I've been working on for the museum in Plymouth, I dont want to give too much away just yet because I want the work to be seen in its final state, so enjoy these until its out in the real world! 

I'm also working on a few other things at the moment so stay tuned! 

Another Mural

Its been a little while since I posted anything, things have been pretty busy for me lately and I'll be able to show you what I've been upto fairly soonish. anyway here are a few pictures of the mural I've recently finished, this one was a solo project so it was pretty challenging getting it done on time, I managed it though and here is the outcome. I'm quite pleased with how it came out and the school who I painted for seemed pretty happy with it so I count this as a success!

For the rest of the gallery click here

Plympton Library Mural Done!

Ages ago I posted a rough sketch idea for a mural I was doing with a few other illustrators, well its finally been finished! its fair to say that this wasn't the most straight forward of briefs because of a few planning issues, however it was still a very enjoyable project to work on, painting at this scale is always pretty fun. 

The mural was based around children's literature and each of us designed characters based on a book of our choice, I chose to do Long John Silver from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. 

I'll be going back to Plympton Library to get some more detailed photos of the finished mural in a few weeks, so for now enjoy the mural.

The Revelation is Done

Conquest is done! All four Revelation illustrations are done! I'm pretty pleased with how they have turned out, apart from a few differences I've got them exactly how I wanted them to look. As for Conquest, this one didn't take me half as long as the other three, which is good because I need to get them printed out pretty sharpish, anyway here is conquest and here is all four of the Illustrations side by side, gives you an idea of how I want them to be displayed.