Forty years of Superman The Movie

In cinemas at Christmas forty years ago Superman The Movie brought audiences 'the gift of flight'. The north pole, a man in red who flies... Superman is a Christmas movie right?

Strange Cumberbatch

It's been eight years since I produced my 'young' Doctor Strange themed illustration. I thought the impending release of the Doctor Strange movie was a good excuse to revisit the character, so here he is, hopefully with a hint of Mr Cumberbatch about him.

Goodbye David Cameron MP

A bit of odd synchronicity today. I was looking through my blog post archives only to find a post I'd drafted but never published. It contained this attempt to capture David Cameron doing his 'earnest' face, at about the time he became PM. No sooner had I found it than the BBC news website chirped up with the new he was quitting as an MP. So this seems like possibly the last relevant time to post it. Instead of 'Hello David Cameron PM' it's 'Goodbye David Cameron MP'.

St Jean

More old stuff, my attempts at a portrait of the beautiful Jean Seberg as Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger's St Joan (1957).

Author portrait 2

Another go at an author portrait of Graham Thomas. Finished digital painting above and original pencil sketch below.

Author Portrait

Recent portrait of author Graham Thomas, for his 'Brandenburg' novels.

Chuck Randomness

Here's a colour warm up sketch I did of Charlton Heston as Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar in the 1961 epic El Cid.
What I was actually working on at the time had nothing to do with El Cid, but there you go...