Heroes4ADay

This is my second illustration celebrating black football players, Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka. The young man is a true inspiration, he has had to overcome racist abuse from his own fans while playing for England. He has become one of Europe’s top players.

I am starting to produce prints to sell on my online store and this is the first in the series that celebrates black football players. I have started with Celtic FC legend Henrik Larsson. This is an A4 smooth cotton rag giclee print.

This is limited edition- 2 prints only and signed by me, the artist. Link below.

Henrik Larsson print

This is my take on the famous Jaws movie poster. I used coloured card to create this piece, the aim is to sell giclee prints of this original artwork from my online shop. Link below.

Jaws print

This is illustration is based on the film Glass Onion. I used copic markers again for this piece. I wanted to create an original artwork that encompassed all the characters of the film.

I have been exploring the idea of doing portrait illustrations of famous people. This is my first attempt, which is of celebrity chef Matty Matheson. I am looking to expand on this and create a series of illustrations based on well know people.

Commissioned by Love Ssega as part of his season for change common ground commission ‘Airs of the South Circular’. Project Earth is a comic that tells the the story of three friends Karl, Malik and Andre on their climate journey. This is my debut comic.

I was asked to take part in the Walk Don’t Walk exhibition which was celebrating Out of the Blueprint’s 5th birthday. The exhibition formed part of an installation by Drill Hall based architects Biomorphis. The installation filled the historic Drill Hall with a huge riso machine-inspired structure.

For this exhibition, I drew inspiration from one of my favourite films by director Spike Lee-Do the Right Thing. The film is important to me as it has relevance in today’s world despite being made in the late 80’s. The piece depicts the themes of the film; race, police brutality and gentrification.

This is an illustration I have been working on for awhile. Hand drawn illustration of donuts at various stages, which was scanned and edited in photoshop. This is a limited edition print which is now available to buy from my online store at heroes4aday.bigcartel.com

I have explored different ways to showcase my art. For this piece I wanted to try something different. Something that I have discovered recently from my nieces and nephew is how fun stickers can be. This got me thinking I could use this medium for my own art. After all why should the kids have all the fun!

I have been exploring different ways in which to promote Heroes 4 A Day and I love the idea of making stickers. This is a a concept design of a Heroes 4 A Day milk carton sticker. This will hopefully turn into a series which I will then sell online via my store.

This is a limited edition sticker, inspired by the Nike Cortez trainer. The idea is to turn this into a series of limited edition stickers based on famous trainer silhouettes.

I was commissioned to produce a piece of art work for my nephews second birthday. The theme of the piece was space exploration. I used a collage technic and wanted the final image to be clean, bright and simple.

An Instant camera inspired A4 painting. Using a cut and paste technique with coloured card. I wanted to capture the look of an instant camera in my own style. This will develop into a series of prints and stickers.

We Exist! Black series 1 . Was an A4 sized fanzine inspired by Black culture. For inspiration I drew upon things that influenced me greatly growing up. From politics to music. The zine was hand drawn, then riso printed. Only 40 fanzines were printed and all 40 sold.

This was my CanO Water can design entry. I hand drew the characters onto the can itself using an acrylic white permanent marker. I wanted it to become a work of art in its own right.

This is my first attempt at lino printing. I am hoping to develop this technique further for future projects. The print is available to buy from my online store.

I was commissioned by Out Of The Blueprint, Edinburgh, to design a limited edition face mask. I decided to use the monster design that I have been developing for this project. The face mask was available to buy online from the Out Of The Blueprint website. All money raised from the sell of the masks helped to support young artists.

This was my first attempt at making a tote bag. Riso printed onto a canvas tote. I am hoping to do more totes in the near future and to sell them via my online store.

I have always wanted to customise clothing and in particular sportswear. This is my first attempt. I hand painted directly onto the garment using clothing paint and made a customised Heroes 4 A Day tag.

I wanted to create a piece of artwork based on shapes and how they interact with each other. I really love collage art and wanted to produce a piece of work which combined the two elements. This is the first piece I produced using black and white card. I am aiming to release this an A4 print in the near future.

I collaborated with London based musician Love Ssega. The brief was to produce artwork for his Defiant EP, which would be used for a tape release and business card. Before this project I had been working on a series of images using shapes and how they worked together. I developed this idea for the EP artwork, but incorporated the EP title, to make it a stand alone piece. The EP is still available to buy on Love Ssega’s Bandcamp page.