Computer Arts Gallery: November 2007

MARTIN SIMPSON
LOCATION Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
JOB Freelance illustrator / designer
CONTACT martin@tweekhed.com
SOFTWARE Photoshop, Illustrator

Martin is a 29-year-old freelance illustrator who often works under the alias of 'tweekhed'. He began his career doing graphic design before concentrating his efforts on illustration - some of the results of which you can see here.

"My mixed-media approach to illustration combines sculpture, photography, vector and hand-drawn imagery," he says. "I am hugely influenced by animation, comics and the cinema. I try to give my work a cinematic and vibrant feel and think a lot about how lighting can be used within my images to create the right atmosphere."

IRON MAN "Like a lot of my work, this is often mistaken for CGI, but it's actually a fully painted sculpture which has been photographed and composited with various other elements in Photoshop."

MARTIN SIMPSON
LOCATION Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
JOB Freelance illustrator / designer
CONTACT martin@tweekhed.com
SOFTWARE Photoshop, Illustrator

Martin is a 29-year-old freelance illustrator who often works under the alias of 'tweekhed'. He began his career doing graphic design before concentrating his efforts on illustration - some of the results of which you can see here.

"My mixed-media approach to illustration combines sculpture, photography, vector and hand-drawn imagery," he says. "I am hugely influenced by animation, comics and the cinema. I try to give my work a cinematic and vibrant feel and think a lot about how lighting can be used within my images to create the right atmosphere."

CAMOUFLAGE "I really wanted to create a creepy yet alluring scene for this one. The tree creature itself is made from black Plasticine, with hand-drawn sections added later for the finer details."

GRAHAM ASKER
LOCATION Hertfordshire
JOB Final year student
CONTACT www.grahamasker.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator

A student of Fine Art studying at London Metropolitan University, Graham has been exploring the aspects of visual perception that relate to our ability to build a virtual model of the real world in our brains. He often uses the form of a flattened package as the basis for his scenes or settings.

PLAY "I have always had a love of pinball machines. Unfortunately they are becoming a rarity - this piece is therefore somewhat nostalgic."

GRAHAM ASKER
LOCATION Hertfordshire
JOB Final year student
CONTACT www.grahamasker.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator

A student of Fine Art studying at London Metropolitan University, Graham has been exploring the aspects of visual perception that relate to our ability to build a virtual model of the real world in our brains. He often uses the form of a flattened package as the basis for his scenes or settings.

URINATE "I have used the concept to explore depth and perspective, thus giving the viewer work to do when viewing it. I have chosen the subject because it's a very common situation but is rarely captured and documented, and thus becomes rather comic."

ROB HAGUE
LOCATION Rotherham
JOB Illustrator
CONTACT roborenji@hotmail.com
SOFTWARE Photoshop

According to Rob, he's a freshly graduated illustrator with the standard geeky interests. Currently, his goals are to move to a city that's bigger than Rotherham and to extend his illustration skills.

"I admire the styles of Tim Biskup, Chris Ware and Doug Tennapel, although I'm more likely to be influenced by friends and illustrators close by," he says. "Outside of illustration, my greatest influences are Frank Zappa, Nintendo, Japan, and 60s Blue Note Jazz."

DIRTY LOVE His love for Frank Zappa shines through in his artwork. This one is based on the song Dirty Love, in which Zappa embraced the topic of groupies.

ROB HAGUE
LOCATION Rotherham
JOB Illustrator
CONTACT roborenji@hotmail.com
SOFTWARE Photoshop

According to Rob, he's a freshly graduated illustrator with the standard geeky interests. Currently, his goals are to move to a city that's bigger than Rotherham and to extend his illustration skills.

"I admire the styles of Tim Biskup, Chris Ware and Doug Tennapel, although I'm more likely to be influenced by friends and illustrators close by," he says. "Outside of illustration, my greatest influences are Frank Zappa, Nintendo, Japan, and 60s Blue Note Jazz."

2 PAGE Meet the Hot Beebots. According to Rob, they are the pioneers of a new Jazz-rave movement and are pictured here playing in a field.

TOBY HAYNES
LOCATION Kettering, UK
JOB Graphic designer
CONTACT www.eltobe.co.uk
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Toby was the winner of a D&AD New Blood award back in 2002 for one of his animations. Currently he's working as a graphic designer in Northampton, while spending most of his free time painting, illustrating and working on more animations.

GIZZARDS OUT This was an experimental creation, based on one of Toby's sketches. "I really enjoy throwing things together to create a totally garish and messy final piece," he says. "I use the filters in Photoshop a lot and my process is pretty random - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."

TOBY HAYNES
LOCATION Kettering, UK
JOB Graphic designer
CONTACT www.eltobe.co.uk
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Toby was the winner of a D&AD New Blood award back in 2002 for one of his animations. Currently he's working as a graphic designer in Northampton, while spending most of his free time painting, illustrating and working on more animations.

CUBIK Here Toby has taken another original image from his illustration portfolio and used it as the basis for an abstract, experimental pattern.

MICHELLE TOWN
LOCATION Brighton
JOB Graduate
CONTACT michelle_town@hotmail.co.uk
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop

Michelle has just graduated from Northbrook College in Sussex with First Class honours in Communication Design. Her wallpaper design work caught our eye at the New Designers show.

"I wanted to create bespoke wallpaper that could be personalised by the viewer, inviting them to think and react. This interactivity led to a sense of playfulness within the work, which could be interpreted and manipulated in the clients' desired way," she says.

PENGUINS AND WHIPPETS One of Michelle's bespoke wallpapers. "I took inspiration from a motif I found on an old sewing machine, which is a family heirloom. I reworked the motif incorporating Victorian patterns and architecture."

MICHELLE TOWN
LOCATION Brighton
JOB Graduate
CONTACT michelle_town@hotmail.co.uk
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop

Michelle has just graduated from Northbrook College in Sussex with First Class honours in Communication Design. Her wallpaper design work caught our eye at the New Designers show.

"I wanted to create bespoke wallpaper that could be personalised by the viewer, inviting them to think and react. This interactivity led to a sense of playfulness within the work, which could be interpreted and manipulated in the clients' desired way," she says.

HOLIDAY BLUES Another bespoke wallpaper, for Fritz Lipinski. Michelle used places Fritz has been to on holiday as her inspiration, plus his favourite film, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, mixing in photographic and drawn elements.