Stealthy Lines and Excessive Colour

Different types of ship in a race.

Some glorious and beautiful mermaids.

A treasure map.

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Starting TONIGHT! In London, in a theatre under Waterloo station - Go go go, my thespians!

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My comic (written by the magnificent Lucy Stone) is almost finished in its weekly run at acesweekly.co.uk

Here's a two page peek at a part of the story, featuring a giant panorama of exploded Utah landscape.

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Another dirtbagging illustration for Gripped magazine.

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A drawing for the Public Law Project.  

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Here's a couple of methods of making secret stuff in Ancient Greece.  Drawn in a different style than usual, in an attempt to emulate more figurative and realistic comic strip artists.

Tattooing a map on your head.

Far safer to pour melted wax over the your letter instead.

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Presumably called the Daily Buccaneer or Swashbuckling Times or similar, here's another illustration for the Pirate puzzle book I'm creating for Usbourne Publishing.

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A drawing for a forthcoming children's book for Usbourne Publising featuring two pirate talking to each other on neighbouring ships.  

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My friend Hannah is doing a workshop at an event in Brighton some time soon, where she'll be telling a story to a group of children about stars, space, unicorns, rainbows, frogs and numerous other things.  

I wish I was very small as I think I'd be utterly mesmerised by it.

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With scant-few details, my brother (who writes plays) asked me to visualise the stage set of a play (I'm presuming one of his), named "The Helm".  So I did.

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A commission by Patrick Chaduc, Publisher of "Editions Aaltair" (See here) who very kindly hosted me and my cohorts at the Paris Manga fair a few weekends back, whilst we promoted our online comic "Aces Weekly" (See here).

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I love Robots so much, I've decided to show a few more pictures that I created for an educational book for Cambridge University.

Beep beep whir whir.

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A couple of robot scenes for an educational book for Cambridge University.

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Following on from the many Wheelie Bin illustrations that I've done in the past (commissioned to accompany a series of Wheelie Bin poems), here's one final image showcasing a high-jumping champion at the Olympic Games.

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"Wooooooo-ooohhhhhhh"

Sadly some projects get consigned to the graveyard before they're ever given the chance to get fully off the ground. I was very pleased to be working on a Haunted House Pop-Up book, but for whatever reason the project was cancelled and will never get to see the light of day.  However!  All's not entirely lost, as I've still got a rather snazzy cover to show you all.

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I often contribute to Canadian Running or Climbing magazines, so it was a little bit of a treat to have a go at illustration a feature on "the crap that ends up on a cyclist's handlebars" for Canadian Cycling!  

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A lot of educational books need variations on a theme, such as different types of ticket, or house, or shop, or interior, so that the authors can visually describe individual circumstances and examples.  Here's some recent drawings for an ELT book for Macmillan.

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My excuse for my drawing being late is that I went to visit my mum on mothers day.  Is that good enough or do I need to make up something more wayward?  

Happy (belated) Mothers Day to all the mums, new, old and soon-to-be.  x

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A new book I'm working on for Thames and Hudson details the rambling exploits of the author engaging the ferocious wilds of the Kent countryside.  For once, the publisher wanted the illustrations to be in B&W, which gave me a great opportunity to go crazy with my favourite cross-hatching styles.  Here's a couple of images from the series.  I think there's about 30 drawings in all that appear throughout the book.

The Author meets some Benedictine Nuns.

The Author rounds a corner and discovers some lions.  

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 Here's the character designs for a drawing of Ibn AlHatyam. 

Originally drawn for a pitch for a series of drawings of Muslim Scientists.

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Coombe Martin in the Sunshine - 19th February 2013.

Coombe Martin in the freezingness - 20th February 2013.

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It's with great pride that I announce the forthcoming comic that I've created with my literary partner in crime, the wonderful and excellent Lucy Stone (here's her website).  

She done the writes, I done the pics.  

Here's the promotional flyer I've created for it.  It'll be out in about 7 weeks time, so I'd best get my arse in gear and finish it off....

It's going to be viewable on the acesweekly website, which is viewable here and is jam packed full of wonderful comic strips by a veritable feast of comic creating legends.  I'm VERY pleased to be a part of it, and hope you enjoy what we've all done.  

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Lots of love, Rory x

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Another Hans Christian Andersen piccy to join the collection. 

Here's the original story if you want to read it Little Claus And Big Claus.

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"The way I'm spinning it, is that the sponsor logos make them feel like a premiership football team."

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"A Mister Ali Ba Ba on the phone, Sir.  

Says his team wants shares in the privatised probation service."

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"And on what grounds, Mister Winslet, would you consider the publication of these photos inappropriate?"

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