Well, my last post seems to have had the desired effect - been enjoying a lovely spell of dream jobs and fantastic clients of late, hurrah!  I might start posting commissioned work on this blog too (check www.edtucker.biz for recent updates - plenty more to go up in the coming days and weeks too), but for now here's some personal work that I've been producing in amongst my recent jobs: tennis, typography, a nice house and some sharks, jolly good.

Had one or two of these in recent times so I decided to have a little fun and make myself feel better about it... it's amazing how cathartic it felt to make this!  Was fun trying out some different Photoshop blending modes n' all.  So, only fantastic clients and dream jobs from now on!  Yes!

 

My new range of limited edition prints is now available, and I'm selling the initial copies to raise funds for my friends' son's medical treatment - all the details are on my Facebook page, and the Treatment For Ted page is here.  Hope you fancy brightening up both your walls and a young boy's future at the same time!

Another quick little music thing here - excellent tunes in store at the Bee's Mouth if you find yourself in Brighton at the end of May....

I made a little mix (and a picture to go with it).  Listen here if you like a bit of dub.

A bit of fun here - I occasionally dabble in homebrewing and decided it was high time I had a natty badge to put on my pressure barrel.  I'm way off coming up with my own recipes and thereby legitimately being able to describe the barrel's contents as one of "Tucker's ales" but stuff it, there's a flat circular space above the tap and I'll be damned if I'm not going to make it look nice with a wee bit of typography.  Watch this space for the Porter, IPA & Best Bitter versions (or don't)....

I'll be releasing a new cluster of limited edition prints shortly, and here is a preview of one of them, in a (slightly lurid) green colourway as an alternative to a more varied one which you can see here.

It's been a while since I've talked about tunes and there was some absolutely cracking music released last year, so I thought I'd briefly list my favourite albums of 2014, so here you are:

Clinton Fearon - Goodness - without question one of my all-time favourites.  Utterly brilliant LP
Dubmatix - In Dub
Decapitated - Blood Mantra (face it, death metal's great)
Crowbar - Symmetry in Black
Martha Tilston - The Sea
Fagin's Reject - Dirty Protest
(Hujaboy - Ancient Memories/Fractured EP/Whisper EP - not an album but Hujaboy's on fire at the moment and put out some absolutely storming EPs last year).
Also really loved some fine EPs from the likes of Don Fe, The Skints, Akasha Experience, Fungus Funk & Quanta.  Bonza.

Best films of last year for me were Grand Budapest Hotel and Inside Llewyn Davis and my favourite book was The Martian by Andy Weir.

Crikey!  Time to show this blog some attention... almost a year since my last post, shameful!  Well it's been a very very busy year, had lots of exciting projects of all kinds on the go and subsequently got a bit behind with various other things.  But, as things are shifting down a gear a little it seems like a good time to post some work up.  I'll start with a bunch of recent personal projects in a somewhat abstract fashion - hope you enjoy having a look.

Happy new year!  A couple of little bits from the end of last year produced in amongst illustration jobs - a private commission and a spot of branding for a great new local venture. 

Found a wee picture of a rabbit in an old sketchbook the other day...

I had a good spell of life drawing sessions recently but haven't been able to go for a little while - nice to look over some of the drawings again in the interim and get them uploaded.  I'm also going to sell some as prints at the upcoming ART SCHISM FIRST BIRTHDAY!  Very exciting - our little gallery/shop in Brighton that opened as a pop-up last December has now been going for a year, so we're filling the place up with new stock and a new show for Christmas.  So there'll be a preview this coming Friday - do come down if you can!  It's 6-9:30pm and we have lots of lovely ale kindly supplied by the excellent Dark Star Brewery, as well as the genuinely amazing illusionist Joe Marni and various other treats in store.  And then onwards!  Yes indeed, after-partyrama, down at the Blind Tiger Club - all kinds of live art, drawing, performance, films, projections, DJs going on and heaps more.  Tickets are £3 but you get a free shot from our lovely sponsors Licor 43.  So all in all quite a fun night is in store  - come and throw some shapes.