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| It begins as a desire
or a feeling of purpose to pursue specific thing - a calling, if you will.
This then develops into a life long passion that may result in a career. The work on this site is a result of such a desire: one to create something that is visually interesting, whatever the medium required to do so. It started at a very early age with crayons and felt tips, and the copying of cartoons and comic characters like Snoopy and Donald Duck. The interest progressed through most of Marvel and DC's characters- notably Spiderman, The Hulk, and Batman, and onto comics like 2000ad and Toxic. Inspiration was found in Simon Bisley's work, with the ABC Warriors, Slaine, and his work for various Dark Horse titles including Lobo and the Terminator series - here was a style that I really wished to emulate (as did many subsequent comic artists), and so I spent a great deal of time painting, copying a lot of his work. Simon Bisley's work on Judgement on Gotham (Batman V Judge Dredd) was, I believe, his best work to date, and should you find a copy- buy it! It was during the second year at college that someone showed me a Sandman comic, with a Dave McKean cover. I was absolutely blown away. This really was something different, the combination of scanned images, photography and drawings producing something really real, something so atmospheric and moody. I then discovered Batman Arkham Asylum, illustrated by Mr McKean - brilliant and very very dark. He's also done several CD covers for people including Machine Head. Raygun magazine also brought itself into my life shortly after this (about 1995), and that really was the coolest thing I'd seen. The fact that designers still refer to this style of work with work these days is true testament to it's effect at the time. Well done David Carson. Other notable names of visual inspiration over the years
have been JK Potter (very dark photomontages), Neville Brody (probably
responsible for the success of Nike as the brand it is today), Jim Murray
(Batman Judge Dredd- Die Laughing), Of course there are the moving image inspirational pieces. Films such as Se7en, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, The Matrix, Memento, Hellraiser, Candyman, The Crow.......the list goes on and on. All have something in them or about them that is inspirational, whether it be a look or style, an idea, or a specific scene or piece of dialogue. To create something that causes an emotive response is something at the centre of the 'what is art' debate that will go on for ever, but all of these films cause that in me, which I value as a positive thing. Reading inspiration includes Clive Barker, as well as 'Esoteric' works on subjects like The Knights Templar, The Occult, Parapsychology, Conspiracies and Ancient Civilizations. I do enjoy anything which gets me thinking. There's also the wide range of listening pleasures-
Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Faith No More, Linkin Park, Dr Dre, Ice Cube,
Ice T, Alice In Chains...the list goes on and on, and into a lot of Drum
and Bass. A quick rundown of history shows an HND in Electronic Graphic Design, a chapter in New Masters of Photoshop, technical author on Photoshop Most Wanted, several websites and several Graphic Designer jobs, plus work featured in Computer Arts magazine, Digital Creative Arts magazine and Practical Internet Web Designer magazine. Main aim: Book and CD covers, and a book of my own, featuring images and short written pieces in a scrapbook style. If you have cool site and you'd like to swap links let
me know. Email me here and put in the subject line 'swap links'. I can't
guarantee that all suggestions will be included but I can guarantee that
I'll look at the suggested site. |
 a copy of one of simon bisley's terminators  and another one  copied from 'home invasion' |
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