Where for art thou?

A drawing for a forthcoming Educational Book. "laaaaaaaa!"

ELT Student book

A large selection of people to be used in an ELT setting showing all sorts of different things, i.e. a tall man, with long hair, red trousers and a ruffled shirt, or an artist with a beret and a drawing board thinking about the Eiffel Tower, and the such like.




And this chap's counting!

Student ELT Textbook

How's about this for as many animals as you can shake a translated stick at!


And here's some more, and some are playing instruments too!

English Language Workbook

Here's a selection of characters doing their thing for a Language book.

Black and White ELT textbook

Presenting a veritable feast of various foodstuff line drawings for an ELT textbook.

How many ways can YOU draw a sandwich?

ELT Exam Title - Cambridge University Press

I'm rather fond of these two business gents, they're got a cheeky quality about them, especially the "upper" one.

ELT book - With Hart McLeod design group

This illustration is notable purely for the absurd amount of things that I had to put in to make it fit with the text. For example here's a list of the various things I can remember (and I'm sure that's only a small part of it all!) -

2 fierce tigers
Snake pit
Vicious dogs in an enclosure
Rat infested tunnel
brick wall with broken glass on the top
Rope ladder and aerial walkway
Treasure in giant Mayan head

etc etc

Hart McLeod are one of my regular Educational book clients.

Heinemann English Text book

The joys of being "Sir" on a school bus trip, elegantly illustrated here for a Heinemann English text book. Looking at this picture reminds of Johnny Cash as that's what I was listening to when I drew it.

Pearson Harcourt Educational book

A couple of piggies for an educational book for Pearson Harcourt.

Mira Verde - ELT illustrations of people doing things

Here's a selection of people doing "things" in a big brother like house.



Different people doing different things. I get to do lots of pictures like these to help students learning English.



This is a "before and after" type picture.

Heinemann Building Skills - Part 4

An eerie Jack the Ripper type scene.... Again, from the same Heinemann English educational book. I'd like to have this one in my lessons at school, what with Victoriana, Running vegetables, Go-Karting and Builders, sounds grand.

Heinemann Building Skills - Part 3

Another picture for Heinemann. This time it's of some vegetables getting chased by a fork. Oh what fun!

Heinemann Building Skills - Part 2

One thing that publishers seem to enjoy, to test the mettal of their illustrators, is to put as many things as possible into a brief. This image contains the following, plus probably lots of other things that I've forgotten -
Sign saying Karting
Sign saying £15
Sign saying that 8pm booking is delayed
A group of disappointed looking people
A dilapidated old building
A bored looking attendant in the ticket office
Sign saying that food isn't included in the ticket price
Bored looking chefs
Unpleasant cold food
Someone making a "ick" face whilst eating a burger
Disappointed children
Bored looking man on chair
Tables and chairs lying around with food on
Man careering round track in a go-kart
etc etc etc

*phew*

Heinemann Building skills - Part 1

This is from a project for Heinemann. I've done a number of books for them over the years. This is for a book on the English language for foreign students.

Small job for textbook

Every so often I get to draw something fun for a textbook. Here's a magician about to cut someone in half. It doesn't look like the audience is that confident in his abilities...

Miniature Spaceman

This cheery chap was commissioned by an editor who was collecting a series of excerpts from various well known authors. My drawing was to illustrate a few paragraphs about a spaceman who is shrunk quite dramatically and ends up climbing up grass in the same way full size people would climb up trees, from a story called "The dog, the boy, and the spaceship".

Tug o War

This was an internal spot illustration for an ELT book, teaching Spanish students, English.

Swimming Pool

This casual gentleman was an illustration for an ELT book.

Cavemen Story - Macmillan Poland

This is an internal page from a commission for Macmillan Poland about 2 groups of cavemen who cause each other all sorts of mischief.