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

Text book illustration

Most of the time text books require drawings of things in everyday life, such as plates of peas, or someone doing the washing up. Occasionally I get something a little different, an example being the three witches from Shakespeares play.

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!

Science safety poster - What you SHOULDN'T do in the lab

The title says it all really. There's a lot of things that you shouldn't do in a science lab at school - or anywhere for that matter, but that's a different issue - see how many things you can find (that you shouldn't do).

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.

AQA Science Books - Harper Collins - Part 2

A fairly random selection of drawings - or so you'd have thought. They're all actually showing different physical forces.

Citizenship Textbooks for schools.

It's not all rock and roll party party party being an illustrator. True, I do get to spend an inordinately large proportion of my time surrounded by doting fans whilst living a life of constant excess, but from time to time I'm brought back down to earth by a realistic commission. This is one such example. I think all in all there were 252 drawings to do in a series of Citizenship textbooks for secondary school classrooms. These ranged from drawing pretty much every vegetable available in the UK (as evidenced by the illustrations) along with a number of sauces and condiments, through to drawings to teach students about contraception, (also shown), and many other things too (not shown as there's about another 200 of them!) As you can see, these drawings are pretty dry, so I tried to make them as colourful and interesting to the reader as possible.

AQA Science Books - Harper Collins

A series of illustrations of flowers showing how they "work", i.e. how they like the sunshine, how they don't like the cold, and how they get pollenated via bees. All good wholesome stuff.

GCSE Science textbook illustrations - Future Travel

Continuing on from the previous post, here's an example of how we'll be getting to school in the future.

GCSE Science textbook illustrations - Vehicles!

These various vehicles were for a chemistry science textbook. I don't recall their relevance, and why a chemistry book would need so many illustrations of cars and the such like, possibly something to do with fuel and energy expendeture or something?







And continuing on the same theme, here's another vehicle - again crashed - for another Science book.

GCSE Science textbook illustration - Pyramids!

If I remember correctly this image was to illustrate the principles of friction, and what better way to do it than via a drawing of slaves dragging a giant rock up the side of one of the pyramids.

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.

Pirate Books - Harcourt Educational

This was a mammoth project. All in all I illustrated 5 books in a series based on pirates. Each story was effectively a backup bit of colour and text to maintain the readers' interest and add to the slightly more academic stuff that occupied the first half of each book.

Simple line work and bold colours were the order of the day for this series. Little was I to know that this was the very beginning of my pirate drawing career.

As a (partial) result of my work on this, the series won a book design award, which was nice.




Here's a "team shot" of all the covers.



An internal spread.

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.

Heinemann English Textbook

This was an usual piece, as it illustrates a bit of text from a poem about a drunk piggy. It's for a language education book for Heinemann.

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.