Decided that I ought to make at least one post before heading off sunnier climes for three weeks. First up are a couple of quick editorials based articles from the occasional New York Times series Townies, This Summer The Guilt Is Gratis and Phantoms of the East River, self initiated to continue bumping up my portfolio.

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Realised that I hadn't yet posted these character sketches, which have been getting quite a bit of positive feedback recently, not least from the lovely people at Arena illustration agency earlier today!

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Also, figure it's about time that I put up some photos of the shows in Falmouth and at New Designers.

 Falmouth degree show

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 New Designers board

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Bonus doodle artwork!

Back online with the first post since all the end of year craziness down here in Falmouth. Good news is it's all finished now, heading back home with a working computer so hopefully the blog posting will spark back into life shortly! On a related note, my website is now finished, just need to get on the tutor responsible for hosting them at uni.


Just wanted to stick up a couple of images I made for an exhibition running in the Poly alongside Falmouth film graduates work at Pixel8 film festival this friday, saturday and sunday. Come along for an evening of excellent illustration and falmouth filmaking.


The first one is for a film called Pig, where featuring a man ventures into the dark subconscious of his girlfriend. The second is for Gillez Pyskessa, exploring isolation and disconnectedness with modern Cornwall through the eyes of an aging fisherman.

Pig

Gillez Pyskessa

Big props to Joe Dunn for sorting this all out!

The theme of today's post, suitably made from New York, seems to be cities.

This image is my illustration for Falmouth Illustration Ba's Book of Illustrated Quotes and Sayings, finished a couple of weeks ago.

These three images are much older, from the end of my first year on the illustration degree. They were made in response to a description in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. The entry was about 'the saddest city in the world', from the Salman Rushdie book Haroun's Sea of Stories but the project quickly took on a life of it's own.

With this inaugural blog post I launch the good ship Euan Cook - Illustration!

*cue champagne smashing*

Here are a few things I have been working on the past week(s?). I have plans to make this blog a regularly updated sort of thing, but in the next few days there will probably be a large amount of old images and sketchbook work being posted en masse. Stay tuned, and congratulations on finding this blog so soon after it went up that you may well be psychic.

These three images were made to illustrate an imagined book about Cuba. The first, a possible cover image, is a scene from the centre of Havana. The second illustrates the timeless rural life of most of Cuba's population. The final image is of cuban youth on a night out on the seafront under a waxy moon.

This image is a radical rehash of an old piece for the Folio Society competition to illustrate The Outsider by Albert Camus. I was never satisfied with the original, this one is looking much better, though may turn out to still be a work in progress (I think the project is cursed). Read the book and guess what characters it is portraying (hint: there is only one mangy dog mentioned in the book).

Well done on finding the bottom of the blog. Random images hosted here for no apparent reason.