• WELL I NEVER .... •

Last year on our trip through Canada, we were in a store in Quebec when I spotted some of my artwork on this pack.

I'd totally forgotten about it and actually thought the job had been for Asda. I'm quite pleased that it's for Cussons and that it stood out on the shelf so well.

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• NICE CHEESE LABEL GROMIT

A cracking job commissioned by the great guys at Chilli Design.

The real creamery at Wensleydale, the only AUTHENTIC Wensleydale cheese factory, needed a facelift, with a new label illustration depicting all that was natural and typical of the Yorkshire Dales.

The styling was as important as all the key Dales countryside factors and it took shape over Christmas and into the first few weeks of this year.

Looks like the farmer changed his shirt just before the final artwork went to print.

Here you see from the sketch through the sheep and cow variants - to the finished shelf pack.

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•GAMES, GAMES AND GAMES GALORE!

•GAMES, GAMES AND GAMES GALORE!

More games this month, and for the last couple of months. Some of these were shown in part as i finished them, but now they are in production so I get sample copies of each.

These are from Interplay in the States and they really make an excellent job of the packaging, nice strong glossy board with colours that seem to be brighter than your average cmyk.

One of my most recent jobs was for research and pitching by a client so unfortunately will not get seen in this blog.

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•Kelly's Ice Cream

•Kelly's Ice Cream
What a great job this was, photograph and illustrate some ice cream - eat some ice cream!

Photograph chocolate, eat chocolate, you get the idea.
The most fun was realising that the insides of Crunchie bars just don't give enough honeycomb texture to use in this kind of illustration, so I had to set to and made a batch of my own.
Luckily the illustration for that particular flavour variant arrived around Bonfire night so I didn't eat all that refined sugar myself, we took it to a friends fire and shared it.
My favourite flavour to illustrate and the one I'm most pleased with is the clotted cream. This was pure illustration (the blue and white pot) mixed with some 3d work (the churn) and some Photoshop brushes (the grass) blended with photography (the cream) bringing them all seamlessly together is very satisfying.
These have been under wraps for a few of months and there is still one more flavour that has not yet been released.
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•MEDICATION

I realise that I don't use this space as a 'proper' blog, and just as well since I've been suspiciously quiet for over a month now.
Various reasons I suppose, one of them being the intensity of work, that is, the mad panic at the end of a project to get amendments approved by delivery date.
These 3 pieces are a case in point. I illustrated, or artworked, over 50 packs of meds for Elmwood (and this was just the overspill from the ever busy Myles!)
Most of the pack wouldn't stand up to display in an illustration blog so here's just a taste of the more artistic few.
I also completed over 50 illustrations for Helen Bonney's Wally Woppapotamus book, see a single example above.
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•WASHING POWDERS



•WASHING POWDERS
Now these two packs, done for the same client as the 3 below, were in luscious cmyk full colour, and so I could really go to town.
From photo reference of Jasmine taken 2 years ago outside our kitchen window, lilies from Switzerland, oranges shot in our back garden (not growing I hasten to add) I pieced together and re-illustrated these still life scenes.
During the 're-building' process, and before the illustration part begins, the images look dreadful but I've learned not to panic at this stage and keep forging ahead with Count Arthur Strong, Tom Brown's Schooldays and Harry Potter for company.
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