Dangerous Things in the Sea - Carve Surfing Magazine

A nice happy selection of things that can hurt you with varying degrees of discomfort whilst surfing.

Carve Surfing Magazine - A selection of Golden hits.

One of the first commissions I had, back in the day, was for Carve Surfing Magazine. This has been an occasional gig ever since. I've got a big stack of the magazines on top of my studio bookcase, and took some photos of a selection of pieces from over the years. It was quite interesting, as firstly I'd forgotten about quite a few bits, and secondly, I'm certain I'm missing a number of magazines which feature my work. I've only moved house about 8 times since I started working with them so I'm sure they wouldn't be that difficult to track down....


This illustration was to accompany an article on surfing in Mexico.



For a while a drew an illustration every month for Carve's sister publication "360 Bodyboarding Magazine" to accompany a feature on how to get a job that would allow you to surf/bodyboard as much as possible. This one was about working on a campsite in France right next to the sea, or something like that. Nice!



One of my first commissions. Note, the hand colouring rather than computer colouring. This was one of a series of drawings that went in a beginners guide type affair, which presented rules and regulations, joys, dangers and annoyances and the suchlike of surfing. This illustration tells you not to drop in on someone who already has a wave.

Carve Surfing Magazine - Drunk on the beach - July 2006

Witness another illustration from the august Carve Surfing Magazine.



And as a special treat, here's the original line-art to see too.

Carve Surfing Magazine - Octobong - March 2006

I've been doing drawing on an occasional basis for Carve Surfing Magazine, and its sister publication, 360 Bodyboarding Magazine since the dawn of time. This was for a feature on students being wild and wacky whilst off on a surfing holiday somewhere. It shows their booze drinking contraption, the "Octobong". Needless to say it's not a pretty sight.


And here's a snapshot of the image in print -

Carve Surfing Magazine - Girls Toilet

This is quite an old picture now, but it's still one of my favourites. It was originally drawn for Carve Surfing Magazine, one of the top surf monthlies around to accompany an editorial piece on the strange jobs that people have to do to save money to allow them to go surfing every so often. This particular feature was about a chap who who worked in the toilets at a nightclub.


Here it is in all its glory.