A happy holiday wish goes out to one and all – this years’ card was designed with the help of my little 3 year old daughter, Amber we had good fun drawing around her little hand and then when the cards came back from the printers she was very excited.

I chose the concept of a Peace dove; this year has been full of war and protest around the world, time for some peace now, what do you reckon??

Have fun everybody!

The book is available right now from this link for the the extremely affordable sum of £10 plus shipping to any location in the world.  It’s not very often that the entire cover price of a product goes directly to the charity in concern but in this case, thanks to the kindness of the printer Taylor Bloxham and the paper sponsor Robert Horne Group this has been achieved making it an even bigger reason to purchase a copy.

The charity that will benefit from this project is Maggies Cancer Caring Centres and tonight they are hosting the launch event in London.

I’d like to personally take this opportunity to thank Rishi Sodha, Stuart Boyd, Antony Kitson and Garrick Webster for coming up with the idea, planning it and seeing the whole thing through.

Finally, may I please ask anyone reading this to please re-post it anywhere that they can to advertise this and raise as much money as possible for this brilliant cause.

Memories Book Cover by: Luke O’Neill

My submission – ‘WHY fronts’

I actually produced 6 separate illustrations of running shoes at A4 size and then produced a separate image for the tablet blister pack.  I think if it were up to me I would have limited the colours a little more, but the A/D wanted different colours for each and was happy with the result.  I think if I get 5 minutes I’ll play with it a bit and limit the colours just for my own peace of mind to check that it would be more vibrant limiting the colour palette…

Shoes:

And the final artwork:

My little lady has a fancy dress competition and lots of events planned at her Nursery school tomorrow which she is very excited about.  Now fancy dress to a little 3 year old girl who is currently obsessed with Princesses could only mean one thing – dressing up as a princess.  Every day she goes to Nursery and is asked who she is today – one day Cinderella, another Belle, the next Sleeping Beauty and so on, today she was Pocahontas which really threw her teachers.

Anyway, dressing up as a princess isn’t really too relevant and she was really not too keen on dressing up as a bear (or even a pirate or superhero come to that) so enter Daddy.  This year the BBC are going all out with the ‘spots’ for the campaign so I had the idea to simply decorate a t-shirt for her to go with the spotty ears that her mum had bought her from the charity web site.  Now what does spots say to you, to me it’s Ishihara colour tests which have always fascinated me.  So here’s Pudsy, hidden away in a blaze of colourful dots…have fun little lady.