Satan, Ziggy and the Shawshank Redemption...

Three visuals that I quite like. Satan was done a couple of years ago for yet another job that I can't recall, while Ziggy was one of a number of gag visuals for HMV- all showing the company jack russell dressed as various icons from Bowie to Bogart. The Shawshank poster rip-omage was an idea for the Guinness sponsorship of Irish football, done for an Irish Agency.

Clubbing in Narnia

A selection of frames from a storyboard for a Coors commercial. The A/D on this wanted a very stark feel, and the story (as far as I can recall) was about a scary Narnia Ice Queen-type delivering beer to a shedload of winter clubbers, with a lycanthropic DJ thrown in for good measure. Look- don't ask me - I only had a day or two to draw the thing, but it was a nice change just using black and white -no greys. Plus I got to draw a fella howling at the moon. Sweet.

A fresh batch of kak...

Just a selection of odds and ends. A few moody posters for Western Union, some visuals for DHL, a batch of frames for NTL with a housewife "experiencing" the delights of cable tv ( this WAS several years ago...) and a board for Slim-Fast, where the heroine sees food everywhere she looks, and is of course as thin as a rake and most definitely not a porker. Oh yes - she REALLY needs to drink Slim-Fast.
The DHL frames were drawn at A5, and pretty much everything else on this blog was done at around A4 size, with some of the posters going up to A3, but nowt bigger, really - just in case anyone was wondering!

Edna the Inebriate Woman

A little storyboard in gaudy seasonal colour for NatWest - the tale of dear little old Edna. Poor Edna is caught out in the middle of the Christmas Eve rush, trying to locate a branch of her bank, so she can draw out her pension and buy her weekly crate of whiskey or ketamine or whatever. However, she discovers that all the branches are being sold-off by her greedy bank and getting turned into coffee shops and winebars. You see, if only she'd moved to NatWest, who never do such things , she'd have had her money and be happily muntered by Boxing Day, with a bit of cash left over to pay for a rent-boy for the New Year. Result!

ANNO 1503 or summat...

I remember I did these for a role-playing game - just as visuals, nothing more. I ended up doing quite a few of these - always featuring an all-singing, all-dancing cast of thousands like these two, and always with a short deadline. I had 3 days for this one - a day to get references and then do the traces , and a couple of days to produce the very busy finished visuals. The clients were very easy to deal with though, and I enjoyed referencing all the historical detail - ships, clothing and so on. The concept was that at this crucial period in history you can choose, as a player of ANNO 1503, to either to make war or make trade. Not being a gamer myself, I couldn't give a monkey's but like I say - they were a lot of fun to do.

On the beach

A little ad for Persil, I think, with the kids making a lovely whale piccy out of beach detritus - avoiding the used condoms and wodges of bog-roll, naturally - whilst at the same time ensuring they'll get shouted-at by their mums come tea-time cos the little swine can't resist wiping their sandy mitts all over their very expensive kit.

Timing's everything...

I just thought I'd throw this visual for McDonald's on here because it makes oi larrf...