Illustration Friday - "Baby"

Hot off the press!

The Infant, the first of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man.

Staedtler pigment liner, coloured up &c. in PS

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Computing Which? - LiveOneCare

A piece I did recently for CW?
Its about LiveOneCare, a piece of PC software described as 'like having an IT Repair Man on hand'.
So, an end to all your worries.

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The Artful Todger

This is my response to the following open submission;

DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING! SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

CALLING ALL CREATIVES
The Artful Todger:
The Penis in Popular Culture

Why is the depiction of the male member still
considered such a taboo in today’s society?
And how is it truly represented by creatives
and influential figures in today’s culture?

The Artful Todger proposes to be a light-hearted book, examining the artistic representation of the penis in today’s culture, and invites you to contribute. Be it a line drawing, a detailed sketch, a collage, a hand crafted piece or pop up, we want your representation in our book. There will be a whole chapter dedicated to current interpretations and selected entries will be published with the most successful entry used for the front cover. All copyright will remain that of the artist and all artists will be credited unless otherwise requested. Donations from the published work will be made towards testicular cancer charities. Successful entries may also be selected for use in the forthcoming exhibition of the same name. Please send all entries to artful-todger@hotmail.co.uk by the 30th June 2008 for selection in jpeg format, 72dpi, no larger than A4, with your contact details. By submitting your entry you are confirming that you are over 18 and that you own the copyright to your image.
No photographs please.

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Illustration Friday - "Seed"

Yes, I know, I'm a bit tardy with this one
(what is it now, two, maybe three weeks late!?)
but I was busy that week but really wanted to do this image for it.

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), poet and general miscreant, finds a quiet moment of reflection in his potting shed.

Biro sketch. coloured up &c. in PS. I've chosen the decadent shades of Absinthe and Claret as the palette for this rakish portrait.

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Illustration Friday - "Wide" No.2

Half a minute! What's this?

A Spiv or WIDE Boy (Latin: Puer Pansus) on the Streets of London, confident and shifty all at once. This Flash 'Arry thinks he's Errol Flynn or maybe Chet Baker even, though in truth he's just a petty crim from Whitechapel out to make a bob or two. It's Post-WWII for sure (the light's are on!) but pre-51 'cos there's rationing still on. "What you after Missis? Nylons? Valium? French Letters? Chops? A bit o' How's-yer-father?!"

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Ps. The rock under his foot is a bit of masonry from a nearby bombsite

Illustration Friday - "Wide"

My first 'true' IF* entry for a lil' while.
And a wee experiment in colour combinations

This week's theme, "Wide" put me in mind of the great Divine Comedy song, 'National Express'.
A brilliant toon, inspired lyrics.

On the national express theres a jolly hostess
Selling crisps and tea
Shell provide you with drinks and theatrical winks
For a sky-high fee
Mini-skirts were in style when she danced down the aisle
Back in 63 (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
But its hard to get by when your arse is the size
Of a small country

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Morning Advertiser - Punch & Enterprise

A piece I've just this minute finished for next Thursday's issue of pub trade mag the Morning Advertiser.

Its about big pub companies Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns, who often come in for a lot of flack and criticism and which the author of the article here defends.

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Morning Advertiser - A Dying Breed

Another Morning Advertiser piece which I did for last week's issue but forgot to post up here.
This article was about the difficulties of making running a Pub a lucrative business. Hence the pub's name....

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Morning Advertiser - Social Anthropologists

An article in this week's Morning Advertiser about the insights Social Anthropology can give us concerning the role, importance and meaning of the local boozer.

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Guardian Sport -15 May 08

A piece I did for last week's Guardian Sports section.

It was about Porn Magnate and owner of Birmingham City football club, David Sullivan, (perversely) taking the moral high ground when verbally abused by a few fans.

The image is a variation on the Brum City logo/ crest thingy (see below) but with Sullivan's face replacing the world.

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Guardian Education -13 May 08

A piece I did last week for today's Guardian Education.

This article, by Phil Beadle, was highlighting the staggering difference the author found between a colourful primary school festooned with students' artwork and a dull-in-comparison secondary with little more on display than the signs saying 'reception' and 'don't run'.

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This was the (pretty rrrruffph) rough I submitted.

London Illustrators' Gathering - 15 May 08

Come one, come all!
Everyone welcome!

London Illustrators' Gathering (LIG)
this Thursday 15th May
7,30 pm onwards
@ The Crown Tavern
43 Clerkenwell Green
London EC1R 0EG

tables reserved downstairs (ground floor) in the back room

Hope to see you there!
Paul

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Hat Size

I love hats
and being pretty bald
they love me.
I'm particularly fond of the flat cap
in all its forms and textures.

At the bottom here are my 2 favourite hatshops in the world (so far!)
Bates of Jermyn St, London & Obach (the best!) in Barcelona.

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St George's Mushroom

During a fantastic ( and summery) weekend down in Faversham with our great pal Posy, N and I (and Posy) chanced about a swathe of these beauties, the St George's Mushroom or le Mousseron de la St Georges as its known in France (Mousseron is, in fact, the origin of our word mushroom). So named 'cos it appears around St George's Day (23 rd April) and for the month after.

After some careful checks to see they were indeed what we thought they were, we fried them with garlic in butter and truffle oil and served hot with a sprinkling of coarse sea salt. Absolutely sublime! Delicieux!

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Created with drawing pen and PS. The texture on the grass is a scanned-in rabbit pelt!