19th November.

Hello boys, Half way through the last of the course now! Things are getting exciting. I'm currently working on two projects, one is a Toy Newspaper (that's the logo over there), the other is the untitled Scaleface project! I go life drawng too and in my spare time I'm watching every good british tv program I own to educate Suzie before I never see her again!! ie before she goes back stateside. We have seen so far; some Stephen Poliakoff dramas, Spaced, Brideshead Revisited, Blackadder and we are looking forward to a new series of The IT Crowd.

14th September.

I have spent the day figuring out just when and where I drew all the pictures on my website and I have created an alternative homepage, if you will, called Chronoloco. The pictures are divided into their years and even into months! And at the beginning of each year there's a little summary telling you what exactly I was up to at that time, it's really a look at my art school education (ha ha) as all the illustrations were created since my starting art school back in 2004 at Leeds. Anyway, click on Orville over there (a genuine 2004 doodle from my then diary) to go loco down in Acapulco.

11th September.

The next two weeks, not to mention the next six months, should be rich with updates. I have moved into my Cambridge house with fellow Illustrator Suzanne F McGinness, she's not here yet so I have the next two weeks to get to work on my final project. Over the summer I storyboarded three new children's stories as well as the usual doodles to illustrate my angsty romance novellas, but the storyboards are what I'll be concentrating on now. Today as a warm up exercise I painted every single character from CBBC's Young Dracula, my current favourite children's show (excluding Sorry I've got No Head), there are three episodes left in the series and I have a bad feeling something horrible is going to happen for Ingrid now she's a vampire... I will update again soon.

9th May.

Just added a few drawings to the ol' website, Timby here, doodling there, etc. And a couple of "illustrations" disguised as fashion plates from the 1950s. Summer hols in a couple of weeks and I'll be thinking up my final project, I'm going to make sure it's a good one this time, though I did enjoy doing 'Zooma's Coming!' I think I could have done something better.

6th March.

I seem to be doing a lot of updating recently, today's update concerns navigation, something I obviously thought was only for boats until now. Check it out, by the end of today there should be a button that takes you back to the homepage on EVERY page. The 'home button' is in the form of a Sylvanian Families Caravan at the moment, but if it changes don't panic, I'm sure you'll work it out.

Lewis Screencaps, it's NOW! If you managed to be silly enough to be in another country while my episode of Lewis was on, you no longer have to hide from me in shame, simply click on the photo over there and you will be taken to a page full of screencaps from the episode, aren't you a lucky bugger?

I made a trailer for the comic I've been working on my entire life, the song is 'All too Much' by a little skiffle band I believe is called George Harrison and the Silver Beetles. Our Pokemon Journey.

24th February.

LEWIS tonight!!! ITV1 9pm. http://www.itv.com/Drama/copsandcrime/Lewis/default.html

11th February.

Well, Happy New Year, I suppose! I haven't updated with much, but I'm updating none the less. Here's the real reason I'm typing; my episode of LEWIS will be on soon! Yes, people have seen the adverts! I haven't myself, but my dad has, Lauren has and I believe Sarah has... Watch this space!

12th November.

Hey there campers, been a while since I put anything up here, or anywhere really, I've been much too busy with my new life to post on the interweb! So I live in Cambridge now, well, I have a room in Cambridge, it's not really the same as the whole flat I had in Scotland, and not having a sofa or a living room is starting to do my back in... I don't watch my tv, it feels wrong watching tv in my bed, I've never had that before. I listen to the radio mostly...

Oh right yeah, this is my "work website" isn't it? Well, the first seven weeks here at the Cambridge School of Art have been fantastic! It's been non-stop drawing! All drawing from life! Fantastic! In fact I think all the pieces I've put up on the main page are observational drawings. Yeah, they are, that's what I do now. It's all part of this proper training we're getting, this is how you become a proper artist, only through looking and seeing can you actually improve and get anywhere. I sound completely pretentious I know, especially seeing as the first four years of my art education was summed up by me shouting "What a load of wanky bollocks!" But all the teaching and time with different artists here has actually been having an effect on me. I was shocked that it happened so quickly, maybe it was because I was determined to actually learn something and work hard here before I arrived, but when these people give me advice and talk to me about my work it actually makes sense to me and I can see what they're saying! I don't know if anyone else can see it in my work, but I think I can (again, maybe I'm just telling myself all this so that the money and all that is worth while!) I can actually see development from the way I taught myself to work four years ago.

Keep your chins up chaps, all will work out in the end. That deal I made with the Devil certainly hasn't done me any harm.

11th September.

Lots to tell you about, Website, I am at the moment in the process of packing up my life before I go off to Cambridge next week. I'm copying all my CDs (not that many really) onto the computer so I don't have to take them with me, I have limited the amount of essential dvds to about twenty (oh, the horror!) and I'm only taking books on illustration (sigh!- though I have about three novels snuck in there, the old favourites; Catch-22, Confederacy of Dunces, Cold Comfort Farm, etc.)

But enough about all that life-stuff, what about work? Well, there's a new section on the old website, it's Commissioned Work and there's a grand total of TWO pages. There's the Scottish Dentistry section that I had until today just stuffed in with the gallery on the main page, and there's the stuff I've been doing recently...

A few weeks ago I got commissioned by ITV to do a large amount of paintings and drawings for an episode of the tv series Lewis- that's right, the Morse spin-off. Check that page out, it's terribly exciting. The episode is still being filmed at the moment but when it's on TV I will surely update everyone I know and definitely post it on the website!

In much more exciting news; on my birthday I went to see Nicholas Le Prevost in his current play How The Other Half Loves and afterwards I met him and gave him that drawing over there. He was an absolute doll, but I was just terrified... He's my favourite.

20th July.

Tonight at midnight the final Harry Potter book comes out (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Over the last two weeks I've been a bit Harry Potter mad, I've updated the site with a number of drawings of JK Rowling's characters. Good Luck Harry! (PS I hope Draco wins!)

8th July.

I moved away from Dundee a week ago, it's been non-stop nothing since I got home, though my computer can now pick up wireless, which is a good thing. I haven't done much drawing yet, though, I don't actually have a desk. I have planned lots of stuff though, including my very own Batman comic, that might be some time though, I want to get it just right so I can sell it to DC. The story rather than the art, I love writing.

What I have been doing though, seeing as my big ol' computer is on my old desk, is messing about in flash. Anna and I made an animation yesterday, it's called 'Anna's Bees', Anna provides the voices and sound effects, and bees.

20th May.

Finished my degree this week, got a totally average 2:2. Got a first for my dissertation though so it's just my actual work that's below average, thanks a lot Dundee.

But....

In September I start my two year Master's degree at the Cambridge School of Art, the name of the course? Children's Book Illustration. I can't wait. It'll be so much better than what I've been used to, a real education.