By: Jago,
on 10/28/2007
Here's a recent illustration for Lord of the Flies. Slightly different technique used here, incorporating some methods I used to use at college (dark tree like texture applied to whole image, then erased in a scribbly fashion with v small eraser brush).
By: Jago,
on 8/17/2007
Here's a backdrop I did recently for an upcoming project.... more to come when it's done....
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By: Jago,
on 8/16/2007
Here's the scraper-board illo I posted recently, before it was photoshopped.
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By: Jago,
on 8/13/2007
I've never used scraper-board before but was inspired to do so after browsing Jim Bradshaw's excellent new site and blog. He mentioned using Painter's scraper-board tool and I realised I never had, here's what I came up with:
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By: Jago,
on 7/28/2007
Here's some rough drawings for the covers of three books I'm illustrating. These are wrap around jackets, for a series of Cornish folk-tales... I posted some of the black and white interior illos on here a while ago.
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By: Jago,
on 7/17/2007
Apologies for the long absence, been having some financial problems and having to think hard about my future as an illustrator.
Click on the picture below to view a slideshow of my latest sketchbook...
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By: Jago,
on 6/26/2007
Apologies in advance, but I just had to share this....
As of today the Jesus Storybook Bible, that I illustrated for most of last year, has just hit #26 on the MOVERS AND SHAKERS on amazon.com! It's also currently at a sales rank of 433....
By: Jago,
on 6/20/2007
Here's what I've been working on recently...
Illustrations for an educational anthology by Harcourt, these are for a Kiowa folk tale about how the sun came to be in the sky. I'm really pleased with how they turned out, and I finished them a week ahead of schedule.
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By: Jago,
on 6/8/2007
Here's some sketches from a new sketchbook with brown paper, I actually like some of these....
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By: Jago,
on 6/8/2007
By: Jago,
on 6/4/2007
Here's what I've been up to recently, drawing a lot of small b/w illos for a series of three Cornish stories... probably best to click on 'em for a larger view.
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By: Jago,
on 5/27/2007
Here's another quick sketch/painting/thing, about 30 mins in total.
Here's the Painter sketch....
...and here's the finished Photoshopped result...
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Posted on 5/27/2007
Here's a very old piece of work from Falmouth Art College.
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By: Jago,
on 5/26/2007
Here's a quick painting I did in the last 20 mins, just trying things out in Painter and then taking it through to Photoshop.... it wasn't going to be a self portrait but somehow lots of my sketches end up as one...
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By: Jago,
on 5/26/2007
Here's some more sketches from my pocket sized skecthbook. I have a part-time job in our local shop (for local people), and I've started drawing in this during quiet times....
By: Jago,
on 5/11/2007
Here's some pages from my pocket-sized sketchbook.....
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By: Jago,
on 5/11/2007
Here's some pages from my pocket-sized sketchbook.....
By: Jago,
on 5/7/2007
Here's some more work from my days at Falmouth Art College:
This was for the story, In The Attic and was my first attempt at illustrating a children's picture book.
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Posted on 5/7/2007
Here's some more work from my days at Falmouth Art College:
This was for the story, In The Attic and was my first attempt at illustrating a children's picture book.
By: Jago,
on 5/6/2007
I've just updated my website with lots of illustrations from my bible and my latest book for Mantra Lingua, The Elves and the Shoemaker.
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Posted on 5/6/2007
I've just updated my website with lots of illustrations from my bible and my latest book for Mantra Lingua, The Elves and the Shoemaker.
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By: Jago,
on 5/4/2007
This is the last of them, although it's only a small selection of the 180 illustrations I produced over 9 months for this 352 pg book.
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on 5/3/2007
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on 5/2/2007
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on 5/1/2007
That's bloomin lovely!