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Monogram stamp

October 23, 2017

Hand lettered 'C' monogram stamp for a birthday gift. It was a nice change to only spend a short while on a really rough sketch, do most of the refining digitally (script Cs are so annoyingly close to lowercase 'e's..) and then get a rub...

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Typefight M

December 01, 2016

Up against @Tristan Kromopawiro in the last rounds of Typefight! Have a look and vote: http://thetypefight.com/ Went through loads of paper messing around with ideas for this (and remembered how client constraints and deadlines can defi...

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Hand lettering

February 25, 2013

Thought it was about time to break the 2+ months of not posting. Some quick hand lettering done for the Sneak Peek feature of Design*Sponge, where you fill in two sentences about your home. Full post here. The left one is drawn with a ...

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Sketchbook pages

September 24, 2012

Over the last few weeks, I've found myself spending a lot less of my free time on the computer and as a result, getting a lot more sketchbook pages done. These are scans of some of last week's pages, along with a few miscellaneous bits a...

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Fête des Mères

June 03, 2012

Hand lettering I drew yesterday for Mother's Day, inspired by the style of @Neil Tasker's latest sketches (and Doyald Young of course). I didn't really plan anything so the composition has quite a few gaps in it, but it was refreshing to...

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New Portfolio

February 27, 2012

Many (many) months overdue, I've just launched the re-design of my portfolio website. While I did still quite like the previous version, the new content I had was outgrowing the format. The categories dividing the work no longer made m...

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Card

December 30, 2011

Short set of hand lettered christmas cards. Pretty rough and unpolished as they weren't planned or measured, but it makes a nice change for me. Drawn with white Pilot gel pen on heavy black sketchbook paper.

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556

October 16, 2011

Scans of a drawing I started working on last night for an animation title card. The idea was to base it on the style of titles in old films. It's been fun to work on as it's something quite different and much more decorative than I usual...

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