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.

Oct

Oct/Inheritors

claim descent Involucra; control (most) travel within Towers of Sursamen and many other Shellworlds; octal Waterworlders; LLI

For my final project at uni. For the appendix of my fictional ‘Illustrated Edition’ of Matter, by Iain M. Banks. Here's some shite cameraphone pictures, taken today just after the books were finally printed and completed!

Not affiliated to Banks or his publisher.

Planet of the Dead

'. . . A sky like chipped ice, a wind to cut you to the body core. Too cold for snow, for most of the journey, but once for eleven days and nights it came, a blizzard over the field of ice we walked on, howling like an animal, with a bite like steel. The crystals of ice flowed like a single torrent over the hard and frozen land. You could not look into it or breath; even trying to stand was near impossible. We made a hole, shallow and cold, and lay in it until the skies cleared.'

- Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks

Back cover forConsider Phlebas, from the speculative book cover project. Again, not affiliated in any way to Banks or his publisher and purely a speculative university project.

Sleeper Service

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Culture "Plate" class General Systems Vehicle Sleeper Service (previously Quietly Confident)

For the spines of the speculative book cover project. A full set of the covers reveals the image of the ship.

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.

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.

Jupiter Approach

An illustration to accompany the close-up of Jupiter posted several weeks ago. Almost finished this project now, thank god. Expect a scribd upload of my essay about Marxist theory and outsider art in the coming days, how fun.

Fire Door

Again, for the ongoing project about depression. This one is coupled with a piece about excessive sleeping, being in bed, tossing and turning. Depressives can shut themselves away and sleep excessively to cope with their problems.

Progress...

Aaaand here's a half done progress picture from me, Buffalo, for the collaboration with Frost.

It's not finished. At all. But I hope someone likes it so far.

A work in progress

Buffalo and Frost have come together in a collaborative effort to say farewell to their Northern homeland before moving down South. Just to pique your interest, here are the concepts from yesterday and today, and some work in progress.

Sirens again

I think this is my final for the sirens..... I haven't fully decided yet.

Many things Maidstone

As part of a project on Maidstone. Maidstone is a boring place.

New t-shirt design

A quick illustration i knocked out and put on a t-shirt 

t-shirt design

Here is the illustration done in inks and edited in photoshop

Graphic novel roughs

This is two random pages from the book.

This is the front cover and the first page.

Mountain Cat

"Bergkatze"

"Bergkatze Seele,
Wie ist dein schlau Aale?
Hoch Bergkatze hoert mich wenn,
Ich gehe aal zu fische denn.

Bergkatze wissen,
Wie schlau bist Alan?
Lebt mich nicht allein
Doch Alan interessant sein."

For Old Times Sake

Thought I would post some of my old stuff. The collective is out of university hours at the moment so updates are going to be few and far between. We need content and we need to pick up a readership so we'll be supplying some backdated eye candy.

Some robot Masai hunters roaming the plains of Kenya

.The HMS Sovereign, a United Kingdom Star-Dreadnought

I got bitched at by my tutor for spending so much time on this. Its pointless but it looks kind of good.

Maidstone, the town most of us live, study and work in at the moment. I once described its residents a a slurry, flowing haphazard down the streets like living sewage. I was being overly-dramatic really, Maidstone is okay.