Tonight's daily draw is a rough sketch I have done for a client. Once approved/amended it will accompany an article about Red Bull and it's many side affects. Please comment below and suggest future draws too!
Cheers!

I've been ill over the last few days hence the pause in daily draws! Sorry...!

Today, Bill Hicks. A hero. Suggested by my good Northern friend Rich Lillie.
Please comment and make suggestions for future drawings too!
Cheers!

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Listening to: Arcade Fire - Wake Up
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A request from @fromboris (bit weird to say that!) who is a dude from my old High School/Home Town and now a Twitter friend. He loves a good fight...on TV that is!
Me? I'm not so keen, more like don't get the whole 'hitting each other for sport' thing...though I'm not a fan of any sport in general, but Boxing really does confuse me.
That being said...part of this project of mine is to take illustration jobs as they come, to remain impartial and attempt many different topics and subjects - it's a big wide world out there after all.
Cheers! Please comment/make suggestions for future daily draws...thanxxx

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Listening to: Plan B - Love Goes Down
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As both Predator and Predator 2 are on tonight on Film4, I thought I draw one! Also as I am well looking forward to the new Predators Movie as well!! Comments please! Suggestions for the next drawing always welcome, thanx!
cheers!

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Listening to: Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
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Another student-from-school-suggestion, but I'm going to play this one as a guessing game...who is this? Answers in the comments section, together with a suggestion for the next drawing! It'll also let me know if I nailed the likeness of this dude, which I think I have...! ;)
Cheers!

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Listening to: Course Of Nature - Caught In The Sun
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Strangely, this cartoon icon suggested by a student at school is the next daily draw. Strange because this is a cartoon icon from my childhood, not theirs! I don't know if they are still playing re-runs or updated the character for a new show...but I was still impressed that she is a fan of Penelope Pitstop, so I had to give this retro character a go - if I had time I would have added her car and maybe some 60s retro style text. Maybe next time!!
Cheers!

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Listening to: Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & The True Loves - Take My Love With You
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So my challenge was 'Busker' and this is it! A suggestion from a different student at school - those guys keep on coming up with the goods which is brilliant (oh yeah their artwork ain't half bad either ;D)
I was heavily influenced by the film Once (which is adorable) and a couple or regular buskers on the streets in Norwich.
Cheers!

Oh, what's next peeps?? Please leave a comment and suggest a drawing I can do next!

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Listening to: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
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Every now and then someone asks you to do something that you aren't really that in to because of a certain interest factor (no pun intended!) but as an illustrator - and as you gotta get paid - you do what you do because people ask and you enjoy the challenge - that's called a commission.
Don't get me wrong Olly Murs (the subject in question) is enormously talented, a great guy (so I hear) and has a smile that would stop wars and create world peace (if he was marketed correctly!)...and I genuinely think he is a great singer AND I did route for him in the UK X-Factor final, admittedly. I'm just not a fan...however, that being said, this may be the reason why I think this portrait turned out quite well! I think the brow is a little off, but I nailed that million dollar smile :D



I did this one in 45 minutes which is why I decided to show the process I tend to use most of the time...it took me 30 minutes to sketch and add water colours, then after letting it dry, a further 15 minutes to add the ink details.
Cheers! Going busking tomorrow!

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Listening to: Deftones - Beauty School
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So a quick one this evening (took about 10/15 minutes to paint)...a place where we have all been this Easter holiday, would have like to have been this Easter holiday, or a place that we now can't get back from because of the volcano shenanigans!
Oh well, at least Glee is back on tonight!!
cheers!

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Listening to: Glee Cast - Bust A Move
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Having had a rather late night video game sesh, I decided to draw the shelf where my Wii is and the Nintendo taking a centralish position! I grabbed the closest sketchbook I could find which happened to be the one filled with graph paper. Textured or patterned papers are really interesting to draw on...
cheers!

So this is my piece for Illustration Friday's topic detective (which will be submitted to their site tomorrow I think!).
A rather unusual twist on the whole term but it made me chuckle. My good friend Joel and I came up with this after I rescued him from the Belgian Monk and took sanctuary in The Spoons where the Little Britain convention was taking place!
cheers!

Day 3 and still going strong!! Another suggestion from a student at school who had nightmares involving peacocks! Won't go into the details but suffice to say they were angry and not fond of people with red hair :S ! So I thought it best to face her fears with this image of an angry peacock!

Tomorrow I am submitting an illustration for the Illustration Friday topic 'Detective', but would love some comments in the section below and some possible ideas for future drawings.
cheers.

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Listening to: Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo
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A request from a student at school...I think to make this slightly easier on me I will take requests, so please leave them (and any other comments you may have) in the comments section! Cheers!

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Listening to: Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier - SModcast 112: Guybrator
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I'm going to try my hands at a daily drawing blog and keep Messy Fingers as a comics and illustration news and update section of my official website. This ones a bit of fun and to get me in the habit of thinking of creative ideas etc and get them down real quick - also they might lead to more final illustrations and then move over to the other blog...unfortunately I think it will be quite difficult as ideas don't come to me as quickly as other creatives I know...so first up is a picture of me (well, a cartoon) thinking of something to draw! See you tomorrow...!

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Listening to: Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier - SModcast 109: The Six Million Dollar Man Meets The Bionic Woman
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