Back to Draw the Future!

I was very kindly invited by Thunder Chunky to take part in their project Back to Draw the Future to mark the date that Marty McFly travelled to the future with the Doc in Back to the Future II. A bunch of designers and illustrators were asked to illustrate a randomly selected character from the 2015 portion of the film, and I got me the Hover Board Girls, so here they are:

We all had to make the illustration to a specific size and colour palette. I had a lot of fun with it!
I did play around with a slightly more garish and bright version...

And with doing rainbow-y lightening bolts on a black background (but I quickly got tired of that plan, as you can see...)

So there we go, you can see all the other illustrations over at the website: Back to Draw the Future and you can even make a donation to the Michael J.Fox Foundation whilst you're there.

New stock in the Nafftastic Shop!

Hey there! I'm back!
I have got new stock in my Etsy shop, if anyone would like to peruse the new items!

New items include a selection of greetings cards featuring characters from awesome British TV shows.

Some Harry Potter book quote prints:

A book quote print from The Help:

Plus some fancy pants extras to existing products!

So there we go! You can mosey on down to my Etsy shop to take a proper gander!

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Climbing Club Logo Design

I recently did a bit of logo design for Edge Hill Uni's Climbing and Mountaineering Club.
I whipped up a few different options for them, and here they are:

My personal favourite is the Hardcore Mountain Goat - I was going for a sort of well 'ard biker jacket design type thing here.

Woah? Is this how long the blog post is? Yes, yes it is. See you soon! :)

Monkey Madness Concept Sketches

A month or so ago, I had the opportunity to sort of 'pitch' my work to a company by answering a practice brief. The brief was to create some concept sketches of a sculpture that would be interacted with by the public - a monkey holding a pair of cymbals. The idea being that members of the public could stand inbetween the cymbals and have their photo taken.

So here are my initial doodles:

I chose 3 of my favourite ideas to explain further:

And then my final idea worked up a bit more:

I think my recent trip to DisneyWorld may have inspired me with incorporating the watery prank element to the sculpture!