24.8.13

pen + ink on cotton rag paper

18 x 56cm

 

And here's the finished piece, given to my sister and her husband on their wedding day (scanned in two parts, so please excuse the join). I asked her whether she wanted a toaster or a really ugly vase, and she said neither, so this is what they got instead. 

A SLIGHTLY VIOLENT BOOK COVER

 

And now for something slightly different. I was asked by a writer friend if I wanted to cobble together a cover for this black comedy novel thing he's working on, so here are a few sneak peeks at some options I've sent him so far. Computers and dogs and ink and blood spatters and what not. There may or may not be a spot of violence in the narrative.

WEDDING GIFT: IN PROGRESS

BUT ARE THEY MICROSCOPIC?

I've been thinking about dragons from a bird's-eye view, contained within circular boundaries. Maybe microscopic dragons, swimming or somehow suspended in some sort of (primordial?) solution in a dish under a microscope... Or dragons as vast, vast maps, embedded with contour lines [NOTE TO SELF: like Peripheral Inhabitants; dragons of knowledge collection?] or whose bodies are made of Universal Matter.

 

Whatever it's all about (other than a spot of procrastination), I started doodling these ones the other night.