Folio, yo!

Hello.

Just a quick update to tell you that I've just finished updating my online portfolio. If you want to take a look you can find it here http://carlpearce.daportfolio.com or just click the image above.

There's new stuff on there, old stuff and stuff that I'd flat-out forgotten about. Give me a shout and let me know whatcha think.

All the best

Carl

Married Man

Wow.

Sorry to any followers for being away far too long. April. Crikey.

A lot has happened since the spring, including me getting married and starting on a new all-encompassing project.

This has been taking up a lot of my time so I haven't produced as much of the 'me' stuff as I'd have liked. So, to make up for it, I'll post a few images I've done so far for the book I'm working on.

Hope you enjoy.

Carl

Magneto: The Creator

Of course, he is X-Men bad-guy, Magneto.

In a misjudged swap from his traditional uniform, Magneto was seen wearing this in a 60's run in with the original X-Men in the Savage Land where he 'created' the Mutates. It was made all the worse when he added his purple helmet and cape.

Oh, dear...

Time flies...

Hi all.

I can't believe I haven't updated this blog since last June. No idea why not.

I'll rectify that by posting this cover I did last week for The Psychedelic Journal Of Time Travel issue three.

I was asked to come up with something along the theme of time travel and to stay away from the usual 'go back and kill Hitler' which has been done to death. So I just threw everything at the wall in order to see what sticks.

I hope you and the readers of the Journal like it. Let me know what you think in the comments section below.

And for anyone who is on twitter and want to see what I get up to over there, just click the link and follow my arse over there too.

Cheers! 

Tropical Aspirations.

Just thought I'd pop a couple of images I've just completed for a book about the Philippines. I wanted something warm and aspirational, hence the steamy diffused colours.

God, I'm ready for some warm weather, sun, sea and sand...

These were roughed out on cartridge paper in blue, very choppy, then cleaned up in blue and light-box-traced onto a clean piece of cartridge with a HB technical pencil. Hopefully you can't tell the difference between this and an ink line, which I usually use.

I fine I draw much more freely and my lines are more organic when I use a pencil. I worry about cock ups with ink and I can put a bit more pressure on the pencil without fear of snapping a nib.

Let me know what you think about my pencil lines over the ink.

Cheers for now

Carlos!

Happy St Davids Day!

To all Welshoids from a northern Welshoid. Spring is finally here, thankfully.

Carlos

Yikes!

Yikes!

I can't believe that I haven't updated yet this year. To make up for it here are a few image from some jobs I've been working on so far in 2013. I'll have to try harder!

Above is a piece of final colour work for a kid's book I've just completed for Pearson. Below is a sheet of sketch ideas for a job about climate change on a Polynesian island.

Below are two images from the previous book again. The first of which being a before and after showing the pencil rough and the final inked and coloured picture.

There you go. I hope you enjoy them.

See ya later!

Carlos.

PLAYER 2!

Just a quick one...

Blanka from Street Fighter 2, player 2 version.

Later!

StoryCloud!

Today's the day.

'Ali's Trousers' by Azzad Benkerroum and Illustrated my yours truly is available to read on the Story Cloud website today. Check it out and tell me what you think.

There are two little mistakes made on it though. Weird grey shadows and granny's wrist has has some kind of dodgy glitch on it where it's supposed to be hidden in the sleeve, but what the hell.

The Story Cloud website was launched by The Discover Centre on the 18th June in Stratford, London. Just over the way from the Olympic Stadium. Story Cloud was set up as an online web app for children to read new stories every Monday until 3rd September 2012 and take part creating their own tales and adventures.

I was one of 12 illustrators and 12 writers asked to take part and so far it's gone down a storm. In association with the web app, I visited 2 schools in North Wales, St Winefred's Catholic School in Holywell, and Ysgol Maes Glas, to do specific workshops with two classes from each. The workshops used Story Cloud as a starting point. I then showed the children my own work and helped them write and illustrate their own books and stories, which they were then encouraged to submit to the Story Cloud online gallery.

For more info on the Story Cloud project, The Discover Centre or even booking me into your schools and venues, see the blurbs below.

Carl

About Story Cloud

 StoryCloud is a collection of 12 online stories that you can read, listen to and download. Click on icons to see a story and choose to read or listen. Then go and find the surprises in the pictures and see the challenges and tasks for you to write a story of your own.

About Discover Children's Story Centre

Discover Children's Story Centre is an independent charity dedicated to generating a love of language, literature and stories. Based in Stratford, east London, Discover has a story centre where children and families enter a labyrinth of magical environments designed to stimulate curiosity and imagination.
We believe that stories have the power to transform children's lives - to inspire creativity, learning and communication.
We hope that you and your family will enjoy StoryCloud's 12 unique stories by some of the UK's finest authors, illustrators and members of our east London community, and that they will inspire you to create and share your own stories.
StoryCloud showcases some of the UK's most talented authors and illustrators as part of London 2012 Festival.
To find out more about us visit us on the web www.discover.org.uk, Facebook and Twitter @discover_story

Book Carl for a Workshop

If you wish to book Carl Pearce to hold a children's book illustration and writing workshop in your school or venue he can be reached by e-mail at jimoakley666@hotmail.com, found on Facebook or via his agent, Edward Burns of Advocate Art.

A Vision

How did I miss the whole of June on the blog?

Oh, well. As a show of... anything. Here is my version of the Vision, the Avengers' odd android member.

This is my concept of a movie Vision as created by a Stark / Pym tag team. The idea is that the body was pretty much 'grown' around an A.I. hooked up to a Stark arc reactor with Iron Man type armour grafted to his outer body.

I was influenced by the bizarre bio-tech suited Engineers from Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Iron Man's Extremis armour.

Catch you soon!

Hello!

Just thought I'd drop something on here you say hello. This is from one of the many projects I'm currently working on. It's a pencil rough with the preceding doodle / scribble that get's me sorted an ready to go.

Does anyone read these? Let me know if you do. All comments are more than welcome.

Catch you later!

Carl

Coming Soon

A preview of a nice big project to be revealed soon. 

Coming Soon...

*LINK*

...Now available on iTunes. How bizarre...

Flying Monkey... Ape.

Hya.

He's a drawing I did of one of the Wicked Witch of the West's little airbourne apes in my own design of party gear. Maybe he also needs some Ferris Buller shades and a little t-shirt too?

I could draw apes all the time. I may do.

Did this for Chris Askham's art blog.

Books. Buy 'um.

Two books of note are out this month.

First we have How To Save A Dragon by Annie Dalton and myself and The Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration by Martin Dawber which features artwork by a tonne of great artists, some crappy (kidding) and one from myself.

Click the links to buy them from amazon.

Nearly there...

Wow.

I've been so busy over the past month. Over the past 12 months, actually. Haven't stopped lately.

I thought I'd better update the blog with some of the stuff I've been working on. So here we go. The image above is one of the pages I've (penciled) so far for my book How To Save A Dragon by Annie Dalton, a sequel to Ferris Fleet.

In other news, I saw X-Men: First Class for my birthday on 1st June. What an amazing movie. As soon as I've hit this deadline I'm off to see it again a further 2 times.

I've also started reading Carte Blanche, the new James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver. I'm quite impressed. It feels like Fleming's world but brought from the 50's to contemporary 2011.

Well. Until next (month?) time!

Carl

Busy Busy Bee...

Hi again.

Late again.

Been so busy lately. It's hard to keep the blogs and stuff up to date. To show 'something' at the very least I thought I'd do as I did last time and share an image from one of the books I'm working on.

This is an image of a cantankerous old 'wizard' who is pretty much an every day old geezer like you'd see sitting at any old bus stop, cafe or bowls court. The main difference being... well. I suppose you'll have to wait for the book to come out.

Catch ya later.

Carl

Doctor WTF?!

I wanted to post this cover I recently completed for the anthology, Doctor WTF?!. You can find more details on the facebook page.

Now on Facebook

Hi all.

Just a quick note to point out my new facebook page which can be found here. Think of this as an extension of this blog but with less personal output and more just pictures and links.

C