Over the next few months I intend to show a few pieces of my older work to try and give you a better understanding of how I work.

Since spending a lot of time working on a Mac the way I produce a piece has changed. I have always been most comfortable mixing painting & drawing with collage and have tried to bring this into my digital illustration.

“Star Actor” was produced as part of a project to illustrate the day to day life of a local acting school.

This ‘1 hour piece’ started when I found a 1970’s American College Football photograph which contains some of the best Afros, Mullets and poses I have ever seen, I then just had to find a similar photograph of a proper British Football team from the same era, which is also loaded with Perms, Taches and shockingly tight shorts!

I can’t give much more of an explanation than that!

Free MP3 Download: Baseball Furies Chase – Barry De Vorzon (The Warriors)

Death’s-head Hawkmoth: Acherontia Lachesis.

Another 1 hour piece using symbolism, repeated patterns and symmetry.

Free MP3 Download: Charles Webster – Sweet Butterfly

Here is another ‘1 hour piece’, as I say I intend to try and do a few of these a week and just see were ideas take me so you will see ideas emerge and progress.

At the moment I am using a lot of symbolism, repeated patterns and symmetry, all the elements of psychedelia which seems to be cropping up in everything from Illustration to Music which is never a bad thing.

Free MP3 Download: The Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel

I don’t think I need to say anything on this one, I will let the image do the talking!

The image is from a book called ‘The Soccer Tribe by Desmond Morris‘ published in 1981 it is packed full of amazing retro football photography and as you may already know by now I love football, football counter culture and footie fashion, with the 1970’s/80’s being the golden age of the beautiful game.

Recommended Listen: The Real Thing – You To Me Are Everything

Hello and sorry if you follow www.framedink.com regularly or have been looking in and not seeing much progress lately but I have had a bit of time away developing other projects

I will be making things a bit clearer here too through a more defined format by bringing you my creative Art and Illustration projects at a faster pace.

Posts will be shorter and work will go up faster so I can concentrate on being creative! I do intend to write more detailed posts to explain my work, my influences, my background as and when I can.

Thanks for your continued support!

Free MP3 Download: South – Paint The Silence

We’ve got one T-shirt to give away from the Graniph Japanese Designers Project were 24 selected designers have put “Japanese Culture” into T-shirt print. 

Graniph collaborate with international artists, photographers, illustrators and designers to create cult tees and have opened a flagship store in Harajuku, earlier this year. Harajuku is a exciting and innovative area of one of the worlds most exciting cities – Tokyo.

You can also check out Framedink’s T-shirt range in our Shop section were you can now view a video portfolio of designs that we have available for production, if you are interested in buying or producing any of our designs please don’t hesitate to contact us via our comments box.

To Win one Japanese Designers Project T-shirt simply answer this question:

Question: Where have Graniph opened there flagship store?

Send your answer to the question via our comments box below – Don’t Forget to send your size, gender, address, email and preferred designer (if available), Good Luck!

Sorry the competition is now closed: Thanks for your entries and congratulations to the winner.

Winner: Jonathan Holden

Please switch HD to ON in top right hand corner.

You can view the video in FULL SCREEN MODE by clicking the ARROWS in the bottom right hand side of the player for a much clearer picture.

Please switch HD to ON in top right hand corner.

You can view the video in FULL SCREEN MODE by clicking the ARROWS in the bottom right hand side of the player for a much clearer picture.

This is a series of T-Shirts adapted from a previous post “How Do You Sleep” an illustration which looked at the symmetry in the names and numbers relating to John Lennon’s life and death.

This post coincides with the anniversary of John Lennon’s death on Monday 08th of December and I hope to highlight the growing problem of gun crime on Merseyside through the use of a global icon and local hero, who himself was a victim of gun crime.

I hope the link between this tragic loss of talent and local hero communicates the message of how much damage guns can do, not just to the individuals lost, but to the families and communities in which gun crime is so prominent. I chose the T-Shirt as it is an accessible format for individuals to express their opinion or thoughts on this subject by using their individual T-Shirt to make a positive statement either against gun crime or promoting peace within their local communities.

Through the use of inspirational and anti-gun crime slogans the hope is to spread a variety of messages including a sense of pride in Liverpool 08 – The Capital of Culture, Peace, Music and more importantly to remember all those who have lost their lives to a bullet and the families left behind.

Possible Slogans: I’m Shot!, Nothing To Kill Or Die For, All You Need Is Love, I Got Shot, Instant Karma, Cowards Use Guns, Imagine, Give Peace A Chance, How Do You Sleep, We Can Work It Out, Big Gun Small Mind, Come Together, Rest In Peace, Working Class Hero, We All Shine On…

If you are interested in being involved, backing or promoting this project in anyway please contact me via the Comments box below. I would also be interested to hear how the image could be adapted to other Gun Crime Victims of more relevance to your community. If you would simply like to print yourself a “Lennon 08″ T-Shirt please contact me and I will send you a template image and a link to a online T Shirt printing service. Please state your slogan and choice of colours.

Recommended Listen: Wu Tang Clan – Better Tomorrow