A num­ber of years I’ve worked as a paid illus­tra­tor. My work has been fea­tured in mag­a­zines such as Glam­our, Avant­garde and Cos­mopoli­tan and in sev­eral books. In this sec­tions you can find a selec­tion of the illus­tra­tions I’ve made. I no longer do com­mis­sions.

For those inter­ested, all of the draw­ings have been hand drawn using plain paper and pen­cils or ink. It took me years to develop the tech­niques to cre­ate these kind of draw­ings, finally enabling me to be paid for mak­ing them. When I finally reached that stage the indus­try over­took me with dig­i­tal artists cre­at­ing illus­tra­tions in the frac­tion of the time it took me to make one. Com­bined with the frenzy of mag­a­zine dead­lines I was always chas­ing my own tail fin­ish­ing jobs which were heav­ily underpaid.

I’ve quite years ago and since then haven’t made any draw­ings, which worked out just fine for me. Peo­ple find it hard to believe I’ve lost my inter­est in some­thing which I have an obvi­ous tal­ent for, but that isn’t the point. I didn’t keep me up late at night any more. If that hap­pens it’s time to shift gears.