After The Disaster

A short story from McSweeney's 12th anthology - After The Disaster by Ben Ehrenreich

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Black and white

Bit of new stuff here! 

These 3 images are internal chapter headings, speculative black and white drawings for inside novels & fiction books. 

For this first image I've played with the fact that it's lacking colour to add a double meaning to the spill. Blood or wine? YOU DECIDE.

A Winter Book

Speculative cover design for A Winter Book by Tove Jansson. A bloody lovely read, get a copy if you can! 

Some stuff...

Very interesting for graduating illustrators...

PRICING: THE KEY TO NOT DESTROYING EVERYONE’S CAREER

Words by Steven Bonner. Illustration by Allan Deas.

OK, so the title sounds a little melodramatic, but on some level, it’s pretty damn close to the truth.

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a veteran freelancer, or an out-of-office-hours illustrator doesn’t matter – we all want to be paid a fair rate for what we do. You do. I do. It’s a given. The only problem is, a lot of us are out there working, but without knowledge on what’s fair, so when a client comes along and offers to pay you a fixed fee for a job, or sets a daily rate for the same thing, it’s all too easy to smile, shake their hand and be their new best friend for a while.

Read more...

http://themightypencil.tumblr.com/post/47104282213/pricing-the-key-to-not-destroying-everyones-career

Sciencey news...

Storing data in DNA is a possibility for large amounts of files and documents on a small physical object. 

Scientists have managed to keep a liver 'alive' without a human host for 24 hours, meaning that transplants can now be more successful. 

And the global gene pool of the giant squid has been found to smaller than initially assumed. 

That's the power of....

...advertising.

Little editorial narrative thingy. First attempt at a very limited colour palette which has turned out pretty well, makes it much easier to read at a smaller scale.

It's part of my process...

Jellyfish.

"It would be spiteful

To put a jellyfish

In a trifle"

Karl Pilkington

This image will be appearing in Falmouth Illustration BA's 8th edition of the Quotes and Sayings book, which they publish annually alongside the degree show. 

2 panels...