Referee's signals

A selection of my favourites from a recent project...

Book illustration

Front cover above. A selection from the inside below...

    

Supporter surprise

Publicity campaign

The RFL's attempt at marketing the Autumn matches

Ferriol's vinyard

Daft wedding present

Forty-20 illustration: Gateshead Thunder rugby league team have moved home, to the seaside! 

Magazine cover

Brian Noble gives the Bradford Bulls a pep talk.

The Bradford Bulls have been in financial strife and Brian Noble, former coach/Britain coach and now columnist for the mag, was writing something about them...which no one knew what exactly it would be about - making the narrative for the illustration quite tough to come up with. I settled on the pep talk as it was fairly neutral and would be applicable no matter what happened at the time of publication.

The rise of summer rugby

Editorial illustration for Forty-20 Magazine

Quite a tough brief...the editor wanted an illustration to go along with a story about the restructuring of lower level rugby league. After knocking around a few ideas I decided on this picture to show that summer rugby was coming - the most tangible thread to the tale.

This was one of the earlier ideas trying to capture the facts - the notion of the pyramid structure and the national amateur level holding up the top level game. But it wasn't working for me 

Getting laid

Just for a laugh really.

A caricature of my good friend Doug