Great Greta

The lovely Lithuanian Greta was our model at last night's life drawing session at The Sussex Arts Club. Here are my best daubs.

The Divine Miss Potts

Had a great day yesterday when my old mate Chris Hipwell came to visit with his brother Steve. I was at college with Chris who is now a genuine MadMan on Maddison Avenue in New York. He says it's hard work and long hours and you don't spend all your time drinking, smoking and shagging. Another illusion shattered! I tried to persuade them to stay for the Tuesday night life drawing session but they had to go. Unfortunately for them and luckily for me, the model was "The Divine Miss Potts".

Here are my best efforts to capture her fabulousness.

Spanish Caricatures

Ive just got back from a month in Palma de Mallorca where I was alternately working, socialising and trying to drum up some Spanish illustration work. To that end I produced some caricatures specifically for the Spanish market and here they are. The victims are Charles Bukovski (OK he's not Spanish but he's very popular there),  Rafa Nadal (Mallorcan tennis player), Rossy de Palma (Spanish actress and model), Rajoy (politician),  Rubalcaba (another politician), Penelope Cruz and Jose Morinho (football manager). I'm hoping that my friend Jean who runs Norma Comics in Palma can work his magic and get me some work out there. Well, you've got to try these fings, in't ya?

Missions impossible (well, a bit tough)

The lovely people at SFX magazine who give me a regular spot in their fine organ every month, recently asked me to do a couple of extra pieces for two specials they were planning (out now).
The first was for a horror special and I was asked to replicate those brilliant fold-ins in the back of Mad Magazine created by Al Jaffee. I've always been a huge fan of Mad since I started trying to draw caricatures like Mort Drucker in my teens so I immediately said "YES!".
Blimey O'Riley it was difficult. My respect for Al Jaffee went through the roof.
What SFX wanted visualising was the film Piranha 3D, a wonderfully cheesy exploitation movie featuring lashings of gore and nudity. The recent sequel, Piranha 3DD was apparently shite.
It was to be set in a waterpark with loads of nubile beauties being chomped on by piranhas and then when you folded the page in it was a large image of a fabulously endowed babe. See the results below.
The second near impossible job was a DPS for the current issue of SFX which features a celebration of 50 years of James Bond. What they wanted this time was a map of the world with every (official) Bond film portrayed in location. There are 22 Bond films not counting the first Casino Royale, the Connery break-away film- Never Say Never Again and the new one Skyfall. A great fun job with a very tight deadline. See below how it turned out.
The next impossible task SFX have lined up for me is a Hollywood version of the unbelievably clever upside-down drawings of Gustave Verbeek. Sounds like a challenge!