Ellerbisms fan art

There's an awesome webcomic called Ellerbisms, who is currently celebrating its 200th trip by having fans and cartoonists send him their interpretations of the comic.
This is mine, that got posted today! Very excited!

Alternative Press Collaborama

I just got back from the Collaborama near London Bridge, as part of the Alternative Press Festival. I had an awesome time. In fact, I drew this for the zine while I was up there!

My YCN Online Contest Entries

So about a month ago, I entered a contest for YCN Online. I think it's obvious by now that i haven't won, so I think it's safe to post the entries I submitted online.

The brief I chose was to design some Xmas cards for the ICA museum in London. The designs had to be modern, but I wanted a sense of tradition in there too. So my idea was to draw out a scene for 4 cards, each one that looked traditional at first, but all had a quirky twist.
I drew the backgrounds in Illustrator to give the 'modern' look, and hand drew the characters, inked them in and painted over them before scanning them in and adding them to the scene.
And just to be a ponce about it, I gave them all names!


'Swapping Snowmen'


'That Time of Year Again'


'It's Gonna Be A Long Xmas'


'The Owl and the Night'

Everyday Bunny

There's a lot of rabbits in art at the moment. So I drew a cartoon to parody it. It's actually 3 pages long, but I intend on printing the whole thing as part of a zine at some point.

New Header/Vampire Monkey

So, you may have noticed that I changed the header. That's because I want to make my name clearer whenever people visit this page.
So i've added the picture that was here before to this post. For those who missed the description the first time around, the Vampire Monkey thing was an idea for a potential cartoon about a monkey called Boris....who's a vampire, and lives in a castle with his sister Anika, and their pet furball, Epie. They live in a town full of monster/animal hybrids.

Don't Panic poster- 'Machine'

I did a version of this a while ago for a Don't Panic contest...again..., but i have since edited it vastly since then and made it a bit better looking.
The theme was 'Machine', so my poster is based around the question 'What makes the world go around?' This means that, in my head, the whole planet is a machine, manned by little creatures whose underground lives affect the actions above ground.
Cute, but surreal.
I have done 2 versions- a coloured one and a black and white one.

New Header

Hi, peeps!
This is just a quick note to say that i've finally added a proper header to my blog, to properly emphasis the 'Vampire Monkey' name!

There's actually a short story behind the name, and the drawings. Eagle eyed people will notice that 'vampire monkey' is in my email address, which actually came first.
The name gave me an idea for a cartoon, about 2 brother and sister monkeys, both of whom are vampires, who reside in a town of freak animals (zombies, superheroes, frankenstein-like hybrids etc) with their pet hairball, Eppie (see pic).
It's at this point i would like to point out that this counts as a form of copyright.

Anyhoo, the main story is that Boris, the brother and main character, wants to make it as an entertainer, preferably a magician, and goes through the series trying to find his talent and dream job.
His sister, Anika/Karina, often tries to help out, often being an assistant in his acts.

Seriously, MY idea!

Tribute to...Lev Yilmaz

I love this guy's internet series, 'Tales of Mere Existence'. Seriously, I own all 3 comics and watch his narrated cartoons all the time. But because i like this guy's work so much, I did a strip for ACS as a tribute to him;


ANIMAL CASE STUDIES STRIP- 'My Tribute to Lev Yilmaz'

And here's a solo pic of me in that style;

Tribute to...Graphic Novels/Frank Miller

I've only just gotten into them, but damn, they're cool! And the style they're done in are so influential, so I had to do this as part of my tribute series;

FRANK MILLER/GRAPHIC NOVELS (featuring Dave)

Mary Jane's Picnic

Not too long ago, I submitted some images that i hand drew to an illustration competition. Unfortunately, i didn't win, or even get shortlisted.
I drew a series of pictures called Mary Jane's Picnic, which portrays a 6 year old girl, Mary-Jane, whose toys keep killing themselves. It's an idea about exposing childhood ideas that your toys are alive, but how do they feel when you move on to another toy? Can they handle not being the favourite? Do they have feelings at all?
(note how each toy is alive in one picture, but dead in the next one).

I drew 7 images, coloured them in with marker pens and paints,all in black, white, grey and red (for contrast) and submitted 4 of them to the contest.

Teddy hangs himself

Kitty ties herself to tracks

Kangaroo shoots herself

Froggy jumps off a tower

Piggy drowns himself

Giraffe decapitates himself

Lion gasses himself

And finally, a group shot!