Music is Everywhere

I did this for my self-initiated unit in college and was rather chuffed with it. It was entered into the Craftex exhibition a few weeks ago as well as being in my end of year show, so it's been around a bit but is now sitting in my spare room looking at me.

I wanted to do an image that could be used to promote the smaller music venues in Glasgow - because there's hundreds and loads of them are amazing. The bigger ones like the SECC get all the hype but the smaller ones are more fun. I feel like I don't take advantage of living in such a brilliant city. So I wanted this poster to show a big clump of venues all running into each other and overlapping, like a really confused map.


I cycled around Glasgow taking photos of loads of venues and doing basic sketches of them. There were loads I missed out obviously, but I just picked ones I liked, had been to myself and liked the look of.

So then I drew it all up on an A1 piece of card and cut it out by hand. It took about 3 days I think. And many blades and much swearing. Here are some details:


If you want to buy an A3 print of this please get in touch. Or even the original if you'd like.

Mock New Scientist Editorials

One day I will actually do an illustration for the New Scientist. And then maybe I will be able to afford to buy the New Scientist. Both these articles are just cool. The paranormal one is why people believe in ghosts and the paranormal due to our brains being wired to assume there's danger where there isn't any, just in case. And the plant article is about how plants communicate with each other and transfer nutrients and water to less able plants and warn each other of incoming dangers and it's amazing and COMPLETELY BLOWS MY MIND.

100 Years of Solitude

There was a Penguin competition to design the cover of 100 Years of Solitude. Which is a wonderful book which you should all read. I had a few attempts at it.





But decided on this one:

Shop

I've started a new shop on Folksy. For realz this time. Gaidhlig cards are up should anyone be interested in that sort of thing.

Shop is HERE. But also there's a button thing on the right.

Suggestions for other phrases or words to put on gaidhlig cards are welcome.

Guitar

Pickguard design thing for a friend. Did two and he picked the bottom one with the rose n'that. It's a papercut on coloured paper under a transparent plexiglass type cover thing.

Also, Happy New Year etc. Mine has started with a mild hangover.

Tree

Three layers of cuts, lots of blisters and hours and hours and hours and hours....

Archie

Another animal portrait. Archie the kitten.

Toby

A cut of Toby the dog. Incase you care how I made him here is a gif.

Corncrake

It's a corncrake. Making a racket.

Birds

These are probably going to be cards that may or may not be sold from somewhere. Eventually. I have too much work on. I also have a hangover.

Jen & Loki

Jen and Loki. Loki is the dog, Jen is the human person. It was her birthday a couple days ago so I did this card for her.

Meet Me in St Louis

More papercuts. I work in a bar-cafe type establishment called St Louis, after the film, Meet Me in St Louis, starring Judy Garland who's love interest is Tom Drake, (I did not know who Tom Drake was, I've never actually seen the film, but according to IMDB he was in an episode of Ironside in 1973 and I frickin' love Ironside so he's amazing in my book). So they were short signs for the toilet doors so I suggested doing a picture of the wonderful Judy on the ladies' and Tom on the gents'. Which I went and did. You see.

I'm really quite chuffed with ol' Judy up there but Tom's nose is annoying me. Face-on images are bad.

I'm not sure of what it means that the very first public hangings of my work are on toilet doors.

My Dad at his finest

This is my Dad sleeping in a Christmas hat as he is wont to do post Christmas dinner. It is on a card. I am considering selling greetings cards with custom papercut portraits. Stupid idea? Anyone want one?

EDIT - OK. Set up a shop should anyone want such nonsense as this. FOLKSY BUTTON TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE. CLICK IT. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. I NEED SOME NEW SHOES.

Self Portrait

Papercut self-portrait.

Note to self: do not mess about with scalpels when mildly drunk.

Wolves

I am making massive wolves for AN EXCITING THING. YAS.

Is 'Dragonfly' one word or two?

A dragonfly. From a while back. I promise to stop posting papercut things soon.

That's a lie actually, I promise nothing of the sort.

It's always tea-time

The first draft of a present for a friend.

Cut paper portrait

My first cut paper portrait. If you can guess who it's meant to be you get a brownie*.

*There are no brownies.

An Inspector Calls

A college project. The brief was to illustrate a double page spread for an article about The 100 Greatest Plays using a specific play. I chose An Inspector Calls because it's wonderful. And I went and did this. It's a papercut messed about with in Photoshop. I got a blister doing it because my scalpel is rubbish and hates me.