Pick Me Up 2013 Graphic Arts Festival at Somerset House

I went to this after work on Thursday and it was very enjoyable. There was a huge range of work, so there was something there for everyone.

One artist I was drawn to was Damien Florébert Cuypers. He is more of a fashion illustrator than a graphic designer so I was pleasantly surprised to see him there.

(http://www.damienflorebertcuypers.com/)

His style is to capture the essence of people by drawing quick sketches using simple Crayola crayons.

He was offering ‘one minute portraits’ and after looking at the others, I thought, ‘why not?’

Mine is at the end! It made me laugh when I saw it.

Damien at his stand.

Damien at his stand.

Kanye West

Kanye West

 Tania Gacic

Anna Dello Russo

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Me! It's quite spot on!

Me! It’s quite spot on!

MR YANG FIGHTS ALIENS is nearly finished!

So. The last year and a half I’ve been working on a comic book project called, ‘Mr Yang fights aliens’.

 

Sketch cover mock up of Mr Yang fights aliens.

Sketch cover mock up of Mr Yang fights aliens.

Here is the blurb:

By day, Mr Yang is one of those deadpan, dry but hilariously blunt, strict teachers we all had when we were young. 

At night, whilst trying to balance marking with his social life and sleep he is rudely awakened by aliens kidnapping a homeless person in his local Peckham neighbourhood. After bothering to get out of bed to investigate, what he discovers threatens the survival of the human species and mother nature itself.

Mr Yang and a pupil he teaches must fight their way out of a UFO ship to escape being dissected by aliens. 

Mr Yang and a pupil beat aliens wanting to dissect them!

Mr Yang and a pupil beat aliens wanting to dissect them!

Mr Yang fights aliens will be a 25 page full colour comic book containing action, comedy and slice-of-life situations as well as finely rendered cityscapes based in South East London.

 The humour is aimed at an older teen/young adult audience.

 At the moment, I’ve finished all the art, and once I can get funds for it to be coloured by Joel Benjamin (http://www.joelbenjamin.co.uk/) it just needs lettering and printing.

 As colour printing is expensive it will be definitely be available for digital download when it’s finished, but I would like to check some print options too.

 There’s nothing like holding and turning pages yourself, rather than it being digitally fed to you, but then again, there’s less tree choppage.

 I’m hoping to self publish the book in a few months time, so see you then…

Comica Festival April 2013

Yesterday I was at Central St Martin’s for Comica Festival. It had a very friendly open atmosphere with lots of interesting books.

I bought a copy of ‘Rosie and Jacinda’ by Zarina Liew & Richy K. Chandler. (http://rosieandjacinda.com/). For an independent comic, it was pretty good. It was very well drawn and coloured by Zarina and the pace of the story was clear by Richy. There’s only so much you can tell in 20 pages and this was a good effort.

Zarina was also doing live fashion sketches and I had to ask for one!

Here it is:

Z liew portrait lr

I like her style and was happy with the way it turned out.

You can see more of her art here:

http://cobaltcafe.co.uk/

Indian Wedding

An illustration for a now happily married couple.

Pencilled, inked, the coloured using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

The details required a lot of concentration to get right. But it paid off in the end!
Indian Wedding lr tag

Tower Bridge Trilogy

I was recently commissioned to draw Tower Bridge in 3 parts by someone for his girlfriend (you can guess what WYMM means on the pics below)

blog pic TB Heyburn

He chose me to do the commission after he saw one panel from a comic book I’m working on called, ‘MR YANG FIGHTS ALIENS’, where I drew Tower Bridge to set the scene.

The black and white picture is available as an A4 print for £25 (p+p £3) if you email me at illustratorlam[at]hotmail.co.uk

TB small lr blog copy

When he asked me to do it, I asked the client what part of the bridge I should draw, he wanted something specific and different to a usual portrait of the bridge, choosing to focus on specific details that he liked.

He was immensely happy, which makes me satisfied.

One day, I’d like to do the same for interesting architecture across the world, especially cities. I love the New York skyline.

The original picture was pencilled and then inked using a Stabilo bionic worker pen. I then coloured it using Photoshop.

Now that I’ve got a few commissions out of the way, I will be returning to work on my own graphic novel. I really wanna finish it…

Happy holidays!

Year of the tiger COLOURED!

So. I drew some tigers a while ago and have been practising my colouring skills since then.

http://illustratorlam.com/2010/03/26/year-of-the-tiger-better-late-than-never/

Whadyathink?

 

This is available as an A4 print for £25 (p+p £3) if you email me at illustratorlam[at]hotmail.co.uk

Jon Don Bosco

A recent commission of Don Bosco, an Italian Roman Catholic Priest who helped educate children.

I drew the initial picture using pen, scanned it, vectorised it in Adobe Illustrator and then coloured it in Adobe Photoshop, by creating a darker layer and using the background eraser tool and doing flats with the wizard select tool.

I have been working on a new comic which I will show soon…



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