Images Archives - The Fable Key

February 7, 2016

T-Shirt Designs for Punk Paws

Punk Paws Animal T-Shirt Designs

Due to the success of the last T-Shirt design I created for the amazing PUNK PAWS, I had the pleasure of working with them again, this time creating two T-shirt designs! Punk Paws is a wonderful alternative clothing company especially for animal lovers. The great thing about Punk Paws, is that they donate 10% of their sales to a cat protection charity.

T-Shirt Designs for Punk Paws

“Not only do we want to supply the world with some awesome clothing but we would also like to use the brand to have a positive effect on the animal world, and will therefore be donating 10% of our profits from each sale to the Cats Protection charity.”

Punk Paws recently wanted to introduce dogs in to the equation, which is why they commissioned me to design a ‘punk’ style pug illustration, complete with piercings and tattoos! 10% of the sales made from these T Shirts will be donated to a dog charity. More information about the charity work that Punk Paws is involved in can be found on their website, here.

Going back to their feline roots, they also wanted me to design a gothic looking Persian cat, which can be seen below. I think the two designs accompany each other really well and they will look great once they are printed on tees! The bold and contrasting black and white makes these T-Shirts really stand out.

These T-Shirt designs will be available to purchase very soon!

You can support PUNK PAWS & by purchasing a T-shirt HERE.

If you’re interested in commissioning me to create your very own custom illustration for your brand, please do get in touch today!

January 17, 2016

Unicorn Greeting Cards

Unicorn Greeting Card

I’ve recently completed my first set of greetings cards! As I bought myself a new Wacom Cintiq, the first thing I drew with it were a set of unicorns, of course! They are my favourite thing to draw, I’m obsessed with their majestic-ness, which is why I feature two in my logo! I didn’t want them just sat on my desktop looking pretty, so I made them in to a set of greeting cards which are now available to purchase via my Etsy store!

Traditionally, unicorns are usually white, so to make these a little more unique, I did them in a range of colours! In equine terms, I painted one bay coloured unicorn, one piebald and one unicorn from the dark side! (my personal favourite of the three).

Say it fabulously with this sassy AF unicorn greeting card! Perfect for any occasion and is sure to put a smile on someone’s face, I mean, who doesn’t like unicorns and rainbows?!! – Blank inside to make it yours. Perfect to put in a picture frame, too!

The cards were made and printed in the UK, courtesy of MOO. To purchase one of these cards, please click here to be directed to my online store.

PRODUCT INFORMATION:

♥ Blank inside for your own message.
♥ This card is A6 size (approx. 148mm x 105mm)
♥ Comes with a colour splash envelope (hot pink)
♥ Professionally printed onto 340gsm stock.
♥ Packaged in clear cello bag & hard backed envelope for extra protection.

SHIPPING:

♥ Estimated delivery time for the UK is 1 – 4 business days.
♥ Estimated delivery time for EU countries is 4 -7 business days.
♥ Estimated delivery time for the Rest of the World is 6 – 10 business days.

January 5, 2016

Skull Wallpaper

Skull Wallpaper Design

Hitting the ground running this new year with these skull inspired wallpaper series!

Animal anatomy has always has a big influence on my work, even when I was little, I find it so inspiring (which is sort of why I took up taxidermy on the sideline).

I started out my alternative skull wallpaper designs by simply observing, drawing, painting and playing around with different shaped animal skulls.

Skull Inspired Wallpaper

As I began to experiment by replicating them in a symmetrical manner, I noticed a pattern forming, almost the shape of a flower. I continued to experiment and explore this process to find out that each different animal skull made a completely different pattern, which I adored! I never knew which pattern a particular skull would make, so it was super fun and interesting to find out as I was designing them! I then added some geometric shapes to finished the designs which seamlessly complimented the organic, floral shapes the skulls have made.

Each pattern is highly customisable, in terms of scale, pattern and colour. Each overall design looks like a simple, subtle pattern to begin with, then upon closer inspection, skulls appear. I’m currently getting in contact with various interior/wallpaper retailers and companies to take this design off of my hands to make my dream a reality! I would absolutely love for this to be put in to production as real wallpaper as I’ve already had quite a few people telling me they want to decorate their house with it, which is fabulous!I mocked up the designs to show you how they’d work; The skulls included in these designs feature a wolf, horse and kudo. I hope you enjoy them!
To see this project on Behance, click here.

December 3, 2015

Star Wars The Force Awakens Poster Contest

I recently heard about Poster Spy’s Star Wars The Force Awakens Poster Contest, With only a few days left till the submission date I quickly rustled up this poster design! Panic is good fuel for good art. I don’t often work in full vector colour, but I really enjoyed it and I already want do design another one like this – maybe I will make it my new year’s resolution to create a movie poster per month!
The brief was very loose and any aspect could be applied to the design. I took my inspiration from watching the official Star Wars The Force Awakens trailer on youtube and I took screenshots of particular moments where I thought the image could work within the poster.

I found the image of Kylo Ren looking out of the ship window very inspiring, it was a striking image and I knew instantly how I was going to set up the composition of the poster. The elements going on in the background, including the fabulous Millennium Falcon worked great within the window frame and looked as if you’re ‘looking’ through the window from Kylo’s point of view.
I hope you like it!

October 29, 2015

Smilodon Illustration

I had a sick day today and FINALLY got round to finishing my albino ‘Smilodon’ digital painting to make me feel better. I adore drawing fierce things. This piece was actually inspired by a David Attenborough (my hero) documentary about the Natural History Museum in which he talked about Smilodons from the ice age – I was captivated and wanted to illustrate one. about I experimented with a bit of photo manipulation for the background and I am super happy with the end result!

I would really love to see this printed full colour & bleed on a tee! If you’re interested in purchasing this design with exclusive rights, or you’d like to commission me to design something specific to you, do get in touch!

September 16, 2015

Baphomet Girl

I have recently completed this ‘Baphomet Girl’ one colour illustration that’s now available as a merchandise design! Text can be added and modified to suit. If you are interested in purchasing this one off design, please contact me.

September 3, 2015

Fenrir – The Rise

I have previously worked with Ipswich based rock quintet Fenrir, to create the artwork for their new and exciting first part of their EP ‘The Rise’, which is due for release 21st September 2015. The brief requested the album artwork to be colourful, full of life and to incorporate ‘mother nature’ in to it. I used ornate, floral imagery mixed in with wildlife and landscape to create this digital piece, using William Morris as my inspiration and starting point.

“Its been 2 years since our last record and although we’ve released 2 separate singles since then we think this EP really shows a distinct progression.” explains guitarist Mike Cockayne. “More than anything it’s more refined than our older songs and it really shows what we’re all about.”

You can view details of their new September tour & book tickets to go and see them here, don’t miss out!

June 9, 2015

Starrytails

Here are the custom logos I designed recently for ‘Starrytails’, a UK based Mini American Shepherd dog breeders – gorgeous dogs!

Brief was based on; “This breed is no longer docked and all have tails ( in the UK anyway! ) and their American origins from which all the breed descends – hence my thoughts of swishy tails and American stars or Stars and Stripes!”

May 25, 2015

Merchandise Design

Recently completed this merchandise design, featuring wolves & witchcraft, raaargh! Happy to say that Escape The Fate, a band that I am very fond of, recently purchased this design!