Tower and Device

Ferbin and Holse approach the D'Neng-Oal Tower on caudeback.

The Machine

The final images for my third year final project, intended to book-end the main story of Matter by Iain M. Banks.

Wish me luck, I'll be handing this in tomorrow.

With thanks to Ellie, for being very patient while I waffle on about aliens and composition, and for helping with the strenuous task of tearing paper in two.

and also, of course, Iain M. Banks, for writing such good books with plenty of imaginative visual material in the first place.

Holse's Notebook

Xinthia

(Tensile Aeronathaur) an Airworlder; giant airships (smaller than dirigible behemothaurs); semi-adapted for high-pressure gaseous/liquid environments and space-capable. Now rare and generally Developmentally/Inherently/Pervasively Senile; see WorldGod, the

Nariscene

Sarl mentors; insectile MLI

Aultridia

upstart species that evolved from parasites living under carapaces of Xinthia; mat-like/pelliform (also “Squirmiform”, term of abuse); LLI

Morthanveld

Nariscene mentors; spiniform waterworlers, HLI

From the "Culture" final major project, for the appendix of Matter by Iain M. Banks.

Work not affiliated to Banks or his publisher.

Marain script with attribution to Daniel Solis danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/free-font-marain-scr...

Indentured Intalgiation

The speculative front cover for Iain M. Banks latest book, Surface Detail.

From the blurb:

"It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.

It begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself."

Again, this is a speculative university project. This work is not associated to Iain Banks or his publisher.

The Staberinde

Front cover for Use of Weapons, one of the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks for my final projects, illustrating most of the Culture novels as speculative book covers.

Pittance Store

A hollowed iron-nickel asteroid used as a store for Culture weaponry.

For the back cover of Excession, for the speculative book cover project, illustrating the covers for all 7 Culture novels.

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward...

...Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

The fleeing and unnamed Mind approaches Schar's World in hyperspace.

Mock-up for my project illustrating all 8 covers of Iain M. Banks 'Culture' novels.

All the work is purely speculative and in no way affiliated with Iain Banks or Orbit.

So yeah I drew a few characters.

Erm yeah theres a lot of them, this is just me putting together a sketchbook I'm Currently making which should eventually feature over 100 full colour characters some of them are mine some are not see who you can spot!! This will be one of my final major uni project outcomes!! There will be more! Also thinking maybe make a poster out of these bad boys!!

PANDA FUNK TEAM

The Means of Production

Open publication - Free publishing - More watercolor

The finished book of the Means of Production project. This is 15 weeks of work, my minor project, so I hope you enjoy it!

Comments are welcome below, as always.

No war but..

Class war.

From the ongoing project with the theme of 'The Means of Production".

Wage Slavery

Wage slaves wait for their pittance.

From the ongoing project based on the Means of Production.

The little book of colour

This is a book I did for my university project of the title Illustration as Author i think i pulled it off quite nicely haha

Open publication - Free publishing - More antiracism

Production, and the Means

For the ongoing book project based on the Means of Production.

Holocene/Anthropocene

Anthropocene - the current period in the Earth's History when human activities have had a significant global impact on the Earth's ecosystems. It has no precise start date, but may be considered to start with the Industrial Revolution.

4 pages from my book on The Means of Production

Creation Myth

"A creation myth or creation story is a symbolic narrative of a culture, tradition or people that describes their earliest beginnings, how the world they know began and how they first came into it."

First three pages of my new project and book on the theme of the Means of Production.

Falling leaves.

The leaves are beginning to fall and thats a sure sign of autumn, heres an autumn inspired illustration.... no idea why I worded it like this, i sound like a idiot.... Anyway enjoy!

Braces & Brogues

A fashiony illustration here again. can't remember what the image I was drawing from was but I think it's irrelevant here.

Time is ticking away

here is my piece for the happy journey collective. I based it on the idea of there being a 'clock' for everybody slowly ticking away before they die. Pretty dark, but Time is ticking!

Mapas//Maps

Mapas//Maps has finally been published! Its got the piece from March in it, along with 52 artists from 23 different countries. You can flick through the entire book (or buy it!) here.

I really wish I had done a better job. Compared to all the other work it looks really dull and the typed page I included just doesn't fit with the rest of the book at all. Its a shame but never mind.

Little Susie.

Okay, so I'm no Bailey, but believe it or not, I am still alive and doing things. Yehhhhhhh.

Hippy Girl

In the wake of a fashion illustration module I did this! watercolour and pencil