High Tea

"Canton", Concept art for "High Tea", Line and colour in Manga Studio

In December 2010 I was hired by the guys at Preloaded to produce some character designs and miscellaneous art for a new flash game "High Tea" about the Opium Wars and tea trade between the British empire and China in the 19th century. The game is part of the High Society exhibition discussing the history of drug trading at the Welcome Collection in London.

My main task was to design the characters for the game based on historical figures. The art direction I received from Preloaded was to draw the characters a little more cartoony than my usual style and use cross hatching to give a flavour of the art from the period.

"Queen Victoria", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

"Smuggler", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

"King William IV", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

"Lin Zexu", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

Complete Character Sheet, line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

I also produced some concept images for splash screens and drawings of general objects to use throughout the game.

"Tea Clipper", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

"Misc Objects", line art in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop.

Have a great week and be sure to try the game out!

Jungle Stampede

Jungle Stampede, lineart in Manga Studio, colour in Photoshop

In between other projects I've been creating some concept art pinups to boost my portfolio in that direction. I've done some concept work in the past and really enjoyed it, so I would welcome the chance to do more work in the field. If you are interested on hiring me on a project (of any kind), I'm always keen to fit you in so please get in touch through the site.

Jungle Stampede, lineart in Manga Studio

Have a great week!

Cover Concept

This is a concept for the cover of my picture book. Imagine a line down the centre with the back cover on the left and the front on the right. I was playing with some hand drawn type but it wasn't really working. Going to look at some typefaces now and see what works. I might well change the whole thing if I can't get the type to work with the image.