We are the 5% Zine

Josh's friend Chris, who he works with at Red, invited Josh and I to contribute to a zine he was curating. The theme was 'We are the 5%', which refers to the creative industry making up 5% of all industry in the world. It's also a bit of a reference to the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, and the fact that most of us in the creative industry are part of the 99%.

You can see mine and Josh's contribution below (side by side). You can also check out the rest of the pages here.

Brighton & Hove seen through my toy camera

Illustration for DIVA Magazine (December issue 2011)

When I got home from work today, a big white envelope was waiting for me with the most recent issue of DIVA magazine inside of it! I did a illustration for a column called 'Diatribe' a little while back, which can be found in the December issue of the magazine. The column talks about the 'LGBT community', and what it means to different people. DIVA is a lesbian lifestyle magazine, and can be purchased from your local shop or supermarket, or via the DIVA website. Here are a few different versions that I did for them, as well as the final image printed in the magazine:

I can't wait to sit down and read the magazine this weekend when I finally have some time off. I thought it was very nice of them to send me a free copy in the post, it was a great surprise and made my day so much better.

I can now call myself a published illustrator, how exciting!

Experiments

Venus

SPORT

Getting back into things

During these last few weeks I've been trying to get back into making work on a regular basis, as I need to get used to being creative even when I'm not working on set projects or commissions. There are a lot of things going on at the moment: Kat is making us a brand new website for our collective, which will look great as soon as it is up and running. I have had my first illustration commission for a magazine, and I have also been in touch with a nice little artist shop here in Brighton who are interested in selling some of my work, as well as a web gallery that will hopefully be selling one of my prints some time during the next few weeks. I will get back to all this later, and make blog posts as soon as I have more to tell you.