The shadow of his own loveliness

I was given a copy of Dorian Gray with the cover from the recent film so I undertook my own cover to obscure the former blemish on my otherwise lovely book. It's odd, Dorian is described as having "crisp gold hair" but in all film and comic book adaptations he is a brunette. I used Boyd Holbrook as reference.

dirty pretty stings

You've got to watch out for the pretty ones.

I think the reference photo is the lead singer of Suede.

Un poison violent, c'est ca l'amour

I should clarify that the burning mentioned is not in the sense of passion, it is to painfully consume. From a scene in Une Vieille Maîtresse, which I haven't seen. I have pictures of Asia Argento around and this... well it fitted.

Berlin

A tipsy scrawl in Cafe Luzia, Kreuzberg.

Oskar, Turveydrop, B and S.

Hits of the month: Låt Den Rätte Komma In, Bleak House and, God help me, Gossip Girl. It's my zen TV show! It empties the mind like nothing else.

Voilà! fallait pas rêvasser!

“Voilà! fallait pas rêvasser!” (“That's what you get for daydreaming!”)


Other work doodles...

Crime and Punishment

While reading Crime and Punishment I decided to make my own cover in the vein of Penguin Classics. I've just started Book IV, it's fantastic.


"It was about eight o'clock and the sun was going down. The heat was still as oppressive as before, but he greedily breathed the dusty, foul-smelling, contaminated air of the town. His head began to feel ever so slightly dizzy; a wild kind of energy flared up in his sunken eyes and pallid wasted face. He did not know, or stop to think, where he was going; he knew only one thing: that he must finish with all this today, once and for all and at once; that otherwise he would not go back home, because he would not live like this!

Keen as...

I've been doing some Illos for the rad comedy magazine Mustard. I recently spent £1 on a sandwich without mustard that made me feel sick, for the same price I could have had laughter and Mustard. The moral is; go buy Mustard. You can purchase it from their website, in Borders or at Gosh Comics...


... Satan Says So. I couldn't help vamping up such a sexy image. She looks kinda like Megan Fox. I put it down to subliminal brainwashing as I just watched Transformers for the first time. My favourite version is Post-Nuke-Foxy:


The drawings are for spoof magazine covers and haven't been treated for publishing yet, but I did my own treatment for "Enjoy!". The accompanying article is written by a man who is purported to be "taller than Jesus" and this man who made me laugh at the Poodle Club, especially when bringing the audience's attention to my friend's police record. Good show sir!

Cuckoo

Not this human sadness,
cuckoo,
but your solitary cry.
~Matsuo Bashō

Schiele Boy

We could all learn from the Koi.

Hollow Poppies

The public's favourite celebrity martyr. Lo! She rises again.

Manumissions

From Almodovar's Todo Sobre Mi Madre. They look like a mischevious devil and angel at play to me.


Supermodels look uncomfortable. Who wants to look like a coathanger? All contorted, wiry and stiff.



Bad Day.