Madden Illustration Blog
My name is Chris Madden; I am a freelance illustrator, living and working in Manchester, UK.
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“Shame be to he who thinks evil”. An older one about the use of the Canadian black bear’s fur in the production of grenadier guards’ hats.
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Draw Futurama
Well it’s that time again.
The next #draw project is here and it’s #drawFuturama. Normal rules apply. It runs until the end...
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Hello Tumblr!
Finally I sacrificed a couple hours to the digital gods and got this blog rolling/tumbling. Tell me if I’m doing it wrong, okay?
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Latitudinal Tales, Australia on Flickr.
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Just a couple of dudes.
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Silly cover for my friend Zac Gorman’s upcoming Frasier zine. Available later in the year from no good booksellers.
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Witch of Trees - New piece, finally.
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4 posts tagged ink
After spending a lot of time trying to learn 3D software recently, I woke up this morning with the urge to make something tangible and hand-crafted. I’ve not done any Lino printing for a long time and that seemed like the most satisfying option…
however, I only had a tiny scrap piece of Lino (7x10cm) so the results aren’t the best but I am quite happy with the ottery outcome!
Alphabet!
One day last week I got out my ink and rollers to make some textures etc and generally have fun making a bit of a mess! I started to draw pictures and letters using only the rollers and Before long I had challenged myself to make a whole alphabet… and here it is!!
I have no idea if i’m ever going to use it for anything, but it is a great addition to my texture library :) I’m really happy with how a few of the letters came out, E, J & M in particular!
Salt
A few weeks ago I was sent over the brief from one of the articles I illustrate regularly. At the time I had been playing/experimenting with ink brushes and such and so wanted to try to incorporate those new found techniques into the spot I was working on. I’m not sure how successful the image or the techniques are but there are elements that I enjoy.
Baby Barnes
My good friend Martin, and his lady wife Helen, are due to have a beautiful little baby of (as of this moment) unspecified gender! it’s all very exciting, indeed!
A few weeks ago Martin & Helen bought two of my prints to put on the wall of Baby Barnes’ nursery, and as a kind of congratulatory/baby shower gift, I have produced a 3rd to go up next to them. The 2 prints that M&H bought were ‘Tiger In The Rain’ and ‘Jelly & Ice-Cream’. Each is an image of animals that they encountered on their honeymoon in Thailand, so M&H thought it would be a nice idea for the 3rd to follow this theme with the addition of elephants!
So this is it. To make it a bit more interesting for the internet I have also added the preliminary sketch and inking work to show a blow by blow account of the image in all of its elephanty glory! I made this image using different techniques than I normally do but using the exact same methods, I have played with Ink and brushes on my blog before but never for a full piece. I loved it, and shall do so more often
Inked using a Pentel Color Brush and a lightbox
Drawn using a pencil, my hand and my brain mind!
