Rich Gemmel

Look at the textures in this guy's work! This piece has really made me want to make something . . . the colours and the layers and the shapes, but especially the very bottom bit in black and white. Beautiful stuff from Rich Gemmel.

straight thuggin

http://thehundreds.com/

Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch

lovely work from this San Francisco based illustrator.

http://www.lorenholyoke.com/

churches, eyes, gwarns. i found these in an old sketchbook

A bit of work from first year

The one at the top is a screenprint on linen and below it is the original A1 drawing.

DC boards from peepshow

This range of sticks for DC were designed by the Peepshow Collective member; Andrew Rae. All five boards make one rad image when stood together and apparently come with a load of sticker characters so you can customise the top sheet.

braaap!

Dope shit from Illustrator extraordinaire McBess, definately worth checking his work out, you'll be inspired.

oh boy

This is the best piece of music i've heard in ages

Ana Botezatu

I came across Romanian illustrator Ana Botezatu on the brilliant 'book by its cover' site. She uses collage in such a rad, imaginative way that makes me so green with envy i want to gouge my eyes out with a fork. Not only that but she's got mad skills with a pencil and renders some amazing characters that you can't help but want to hear a story about. Beautiful use of media, her sense of colour and space is spot on and i want her work to be my work. Tidy.

http://anabotezatu.blogspot.com/

http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/

Masons

Brere

Chloe Early

Went to the Chloe Early exhibition at Stolenspace in Brick Lane. I've been a fan of her work for a while and having the opportunity to see it close up was a real treat, if you haven't seen her work before then check her out. She does amazing oil paintings on metal, glass and perspex with a superb sense of colour and space. She employs a dynamic combination of expressive brushstrokes and areas of detail, but what I love the most are the spaces in her paintings where there appears to be nothing going on. In these spaces she achieves these beautiful off-white tones and textures that are almost reminiscent of Rauschenberg's 'combine' paintings. Rad stuff.

http://chloeearly.com/

http://www.stolenspace.com/

Byzantine

This is a frame from a project at college, we were given three words at random then told to come up with a short narrative with a clear beginning, middle and end. We had three frames in which to fit the images and we had to integrate the words into the images in some way. My words were - Byzantine, Cage, And (!) So my narrative was about this school teacher who's teaching a lesson on the Byzantine Empire, A punk ass kid who isn't interested writes the word "AND?" on the table, and in the last frame he gets reprimanded when the teacher puts him in a cage. Aaaand we were only allowed to use cut paper and line.

Pottering about

Just some of that unrelated daily drawing