I've Been Expecting You

This one is a curiosity. I started off drawing Vortigern's Machine like this, as a full page of artwork drawn as it would print. However, I lost my nerve and became obsessed with perceived mistakes in the original artwork, and ended up drawing the book bit-by-bit and assembling it digitally, much as I had done previously with the World of Pain comic. In retrospect, I wish I had drawn the whole thing like this in the traditional manner, but there you go...

Up for sale later this month in the Selected Drawings Gallery.

Don't Mess with Ludwig

This was an A3 drawing done for my regular monthly page in relax magazine in 2003. It contains various references to Mies van der Rohe and Bauhaus architecture, plus Mongo from the In-Crowd. I think the Bearded Prophet is in there somewhere, plus a very early manifestation of the Bird God. There is a mixture of modernism and mysticism that is a recurring theme in my drawings which is very clear here.

Like the other artwork I've been Blogging about recently, it will be up for sale in the Selected Drawings  Gallery at the end of March.

After Vesalius

Another drawing for sale in the Selected Drawings Gallery. This was drawn for the cover of a small volume of collected drawings that relax magazine published in Japan in 2002. It was inspired by the etchings in Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica.

The Age of the Beaked One is almost upon us...

Available for Gold Members to pre-order from Saturday.

Android Martin

Here's another drawing that will up for sale in the Selected Drawings Gallery.

This was drawn for a Silas T-shirt graphic in 2003. So many such graphics ended up cobbled together digitally from a number of original drawings but this one needed no retouching, was printed pretty much as I drew it and I think that is why I kept it.

The rumours are true...

He exists...



Soon...

Where's My Pike?

Here's another preview of work that will be available on the Selected Drawings Gallery Sale.

I drew this in 2003, and it is quite an iconic and important piece for me. Feeling a bit frustrated after projects like the World of Pain comic, which involved ever more obsessive levels of digital retouching, I wanted to try make something hand-made.  It gave me a renewed enthusiasm for drawing in its purest unrefined state.