Illustrations by Chris Brown

This was a challenge to create a 1940's US military style poster. The simple palette, font styles, alignments and 'grunging' all work together to try and create an authentic looking poster. For you own design needs Contact Chris via email or call 01753 854595.

London night scene was my first attempt uses complementary underpainting where you find the colours at the other end of the colour wheel from your final piece and underpaint in those colours first. It is a bit whacky while the work is in progress, but the final effect is worth the effort. I left lots of the underpainting showing through (e.g. the brown sky behind the blue) to give more dynamism to the picture.

A computer generated image based on an American shop window sign. Since the text is vector based, it can be changed at will. Want a unique design created for you? Contact Chris via email or call 01753 854595.

A request for a very simple gingerbread man surfing resulted in this little cartoon image.

A 20 minute illustration of a pair of lips. No source photography used. I just made them up. Started with tobacco coloured background, sketched red lips and darker edges then filled out the illustration with white highlights and lots of blending, dodging and burning. Original size was 800 pixels by 400 pixels - software used - Paint Shop Pro

Stonehenge is a magical place.
These images started life as photographs before being played with on the computer. I wanted to convey the energy that seemed to radiate from the stones themselves on a hot summer evening a little before sunset.

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A pair of cuneiform tablet illustrations for an arechaeology project. Cuneiform was the written language used by Sumerians from around 3000 BC. Shapes were pressed into clay tablets.

The Sphinx - mixed media
I first visited Egypt aged 19 and my sister and I spent the night in the desert out beneath the pyramids. A brilliant experience watching shooting stars fly over the great Pyramid at 2.00am.

Ghost of a Roman Soldier - Mixed Media. A simple image was required to illustrate a spooky short story. The helmet has skull like qualities. I really enjoyed messing about with this image.

Roman Samian Ware Bowls. These were Illustrations for an Archaeology project. The client wanted to show what the proken pottery fragments that had been excavated would originally have looked like almost 2000 years ago. Created with 3D rendering software.

Pictures inspired by the Maldives Paradise Island

Globe cutaway created for a school website.

This reindeer clipart was based on the 'winged victory' Rolls Royce logo. I was trying to get a sense of flying, just like santa's reindeer.