Quick one for Firewords Magazine (https://firewords.co.uk/twelve). My illo was in response to a great short story, by Ashley Hothersall, about a young girl who falls out with a black widow spider.
“Hours later, after sunset, she laid in bed, her blanket tightly wrapped around her. […] In her softly lit bedroom, the girl stared listlessly at the abandoned web. Only now could she see it for what it truly was; a trap”
Here’s a full page, some spot illustrations and backgrounds, and the final layout plan I did for Popshot Magazine, last winter.
Advent, by @ariannareiche, is the story of a young child’s daunting experience participating in a traditional Joseph Steiner school pagan ritual. Candles set in apples are placed one by one in a spiral, until the room is slowly lit up by the flames. The story explains the event better…
I had the pleasure of illustrating ‘The Escaped Jaguar’, by Phillip Mitchell, in the latest issue of Popshot Magazine. It features a zoo, a mystery, an absolute creep, and couldn’t be more suited to me as a piece of writing.
Millhouse, my new guard dog, says it’s a real page-turner.