Michel Platini

Cinitiq with Photoshop + Illustrator

Platini's gonna sort it out...

V.S. Naipaul

Cintiq + Photoshop

John Turturro

Digi pencil - cintiq + Photoshop

Jaz Coleman

Killing Joke main man; Jaz!

Vladimir Nabokov

The genius writer + little friend.

Toshiro Mifune

Got Rashomon on my 'too watch' list as I've never seen it.
And I call myself a film fan...cuh!

Jesse Jackson

Cintiq + Photoshop

Joseph McCarthy

 "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

Who'da thought it (apart from Joe)? According to David Aaronovitch's Radio4 programme last Sunday there were reds under the bed after all - and J-Mac was right all along, blimey! The thorny plot of the McCarthyite witch-hunt era has been dug over with a result that some awkward truths have been uncovered - which annoyingly challenges the long accepted script. Fascinating stuff which is sure to resonate stronger Sate-side than here in the UK.

Giacomo Puccini

 A quickish sketch of the Italian composer.

Vectortuts+ interview

Well, waddyaknow? You hang around for ages and then suddenly two come along at once. I'm talking on-line interviews, and if you really felt the last one left you wanting more then you can (apart from possibly getting out a bit more often!) click on this link to Vectortuts+ for some more ramblings by me regarding how I pitched up at the point I currently find myself.
Seriously, Vectortuts+ is a great site which like Vectelligence promotes designers and artists and gives advice and tutorials regarding vector based softwares. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's a state-side based site as some of my spelling has gone trans-atlantic, ha, ha! Check it out and hope you enjoy it!

Hurricane Higgins

Alex Higgins, who's hung up his cue for the last time aged 61.

Yo! Dave Grohl!

 

Here's Nirvana's ex-sticksman and drum-maestro for hire; Dave Grohl. Would 'Songs For The Deaf' and 'Killing Joke' sound quite the same without his perfect paradiddles? No, I don't think so either.

James Joyce

Time has been tight here in Cook Towers with little time to spend pursuing the more enjoyable things in life; like grapplin' with the likeness of the great writer, Mr James Joyce; a free painted caricature awaits anyone who can prove they've read 'Finnegan's Wake' from begininning to end more than once!
Sorry, only jokin' with that last bit, heh, heh!. Anyway, currently working on an involved colour piece so hopefully it won't be too long before I can launch it into cyberspace.

Keep on scratchin'!

Interview with vectelligence

©Copyright vectelligence 2010

Just to let you know I completed an online interview a few months back and it has now been posted on a new site called 'Vectelligence'; a forum showcasing news, tutorials and discussion within the world of design and illustration and run by Ilie Ciorba. Check it out here!

Diego Forlan

The aquiline Forlan, who with his explosive acceleration and awesome striking power, has been for me the outstanding player of the 2010 world cup.

Evelyn Waugh

Cintiq + Ps

Vinnie Jones

It's been emotional...

Adrian Chiles

British tv's everyman: Mr Chiles.

Jim Jarmusch

The great American indie film director who has the coolest grey hair on the planet.

Nick Cave - scratch

...A microscopic scratch in my catastrophic plan, designed and directed by my red right hand...

Robbie Williams - scratch

Keepin' on scratchin' with Robbie!

Ledley King - scratch

A quickish scratch of the latest call up to the England squad, Tottenham's Mr Ledley King.
Come out a bit clean for a scratch... but there ya go!

Rafa(2)!

A quick scratch before zeds of the latest tennis champ.

Lobo, Mean Machine Angel and er... Jon Stewart?

Who'd win in a face-off between the last Czarnian and the shy and retiring one from the Angel Gang?
I'm guessing it would be a pretty close run thing but Lobo would just take the day as Mean would inevitably get his dial stuck for comic effect and go butt-frenzy, hamstringing his own efforts.
I was a big fan of 2000AD growing up (amongst other publications) and fancied re-visiting some old character fav's. So here're a couple of bad, bad boys.

Jon Stewart

Wacom Cintiq + Photoshop

Louise Bourgeois

Here's my effort to mark the passing of the French-American artist who died a couple of days ago at the grand age of 98. I only really know her by her giant spider installation that marked the opening of the (then) new Tate Modern site in London. I like her because she would say that the celebrity and the money were nothing set against the work for which she encouraged everyone to pursue relentlessly. Just as well, as she only really came under the public gaze when she made her seventies.