Theresa May as Nosferatu

 

Woz the News wot made me do our prime minister as the vampire: NOSFERATU.

Spoofed

Ol' Magazine cover from my local boot market -  

Spoofed-up in photoshop, it's me comment on the housing bubble - 

 

Available as A2 size Poster-print! 

Here's a couple of close up views in detail -

It hangs well with the rest at my DoodlingJim.com in the Jim's Prints section. 

Off-season Greetings

Norfolk Farmer goes 'Postal' ! 

Inspired by the movie: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Actor Colm Meaney's character.

He plays sacked radio DJ Pat Farrell who bear's a grudge and a shotgun siege ensues.  The final comic chase sequence goes off the deep end at Cromer Pier.

I was only wanting to practice on me photoshop brushwork because it was still January.

Alan Johnson

I was handed, on a plate, the fabulous opportunity to do a live drawing of Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP while he spoke to the party faithful at a Labour fundraiser in the swanky Phoenix Palace Restaurant in London NW1.  It was a situation far outside my usual comfort zone anyway but when he got up to speak, I faced having no good point of view amongst the crowded tables other than stare straight up into his nostrils.

I found Alan to be a thoroughly nice chap so opted to downplay this exaggerated angle and pushed to finish it after he'd exited stage front when he added his signature.  Moments later my drawing was auctioned to a happy Bidder who's portrait I also added while my Assistant Christine won a bottle of bubbly!

Man on the Left !

Engraved Barak Obama

Copperplate Engraving.  A style done entirely using photoshop!  This portrait of Barack Obama is print size A3 poster at 300dpi.

Sometimes called Banknote engraving, this most distinctive of all the traditional and labour-intensive print crafts is virtually extinct today.  I wondered if it might be possible to digitally re-create the parallel lines, so I began with a lot of  false starts exploring the usual engraving plugins, I dismissed those yet achieved the authentic appeal and 'look' by using photoshop's Liquidize filter, dragging contour lines over a template of Obama's image.  Here's a close-up -


I believe it now possible to have this particular 'Copperplate' style for the premium end of packaging design.

My poster is available as a signed, limited-edition print.

Greenpeace concept

Graphics design competition brief here.  Here's my effort -

Greenpeace wanted to visualize the Energy Renewables Policy (as set out by the German Parliament) in the form of a simple and friendly graph, for it to be the key Greenpeace logo regarding that policy.  I visualized my graph could be updated during the coming decades reflecting progress of the policy as it runs closer to 2050.  Also I imagined this as an App version where the user will zoom in revealing sub-divisions indicating year, month of each stage of the policy's progress, with related news links etc.  I hoped Greenpeace could develop the App and feature it as a key online marker to their 'watch campaign'.  Communicating the possibilities of a real and sustainable future needs a simple graph you can both read and use, and my logo identifies that message. You saw it here first!

Well hung

The Great British Election of 6th May 2010 has now past into infamy.  We were all subjected to the media novelty of a TV debate direct from these three politician candidates, I beavered to complete this poster before the predictably inevitable outcome - to show how I see them.

Central to my artwork was capturing their character, to depict each in their own plaques shaped like a 50p coin with Traitors Gate - logo appears on all parliamentary business, and sitting at the top of each plaque is their own animist in animal form.

Featured allegorical themes are The dead Albatross (from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge) represents the peoples dashed hopes.

Britannia (bottom-right) is not with her trusty shield and trident but substituted with a wide-screen TV and camera, because now she's more representative of a self-important, bloated and embedded media.

The Devil (bottom-left) is the Taxman, or should that now be the Axeman, he's about to decapitate the corpsed Albatross thereby severing all collective memory of a time when our freedoms were inalienable.  Only thing in life is death and taxes.  I think this poster will grow on you the more its truths become self evident.  Till then and on a more jocular note, here's the translated Latin on the plaques, for -

David Cameron (Tory boy):
  [Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum] 'Garbage in, garbage out'
  [Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!] 'Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business!'

Gordon Brown (Flash Gordon with one good eye):
  [Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare] 'I think some people in togas are plotting against me'
  [Salvator Mundi] 'Saviour of the World'

Nick Clegg (who?):
  [Vinum bellum iucunumque est, sed animo corporeque caret] 'It's a nice little wine, but it lacks character and depth'

Global financial crisis

Inspiration for this Fat Cat Stock Trader came while listening on the radio about the current economic depression' being potentially more serious than the crash of the 1920's. Apparently my super-safe triple 'A' junk billions are being re-securitized into a new financial instrument.  Its all exotic voodoo futures to me as I'm a very time-rich freelancer so have the luxury to wisely spend my valuable time keeping an eye on contemporary illustration trends and have noticed it's getting decidedly painterly in style and vogue.  So, not to be out-classed, I thought I would dash off this fine example.  Here's a close-up section, click it to see all 100% resolution -
Time spent working-up this portrait took me just 2 days and I consider it a 'self promo' piece.  Should you want my art like this done for your project needs then contact me via my webfolio: doodlingjim.com

Cameron the Fuhrer

Tory twit David Cameron, our new Leader. What's he about?.. frankly I couldn't give a flying salute - I was goofing around with Cameron and Hitler.  Had the idea in the back of my bacon sandwich about how similar they look, like Father and Son -
Ah yes.. there's some satisfaction from photo-manipulation Father and Son on the campaign trail.  Had in mind an A2 Poster but I don't think I can be arsed.