Recent Updates

It's been ages since I last updated my blog. Iv'e been a bit busy working on some really cool projects. Sadly I can't share them with anybody yet. As soon as I can, I'll post them here and on my website. I'm also working on a small animated short and a few new character designs.

Creative Boom

At the beginning of October, the nice folk at Creative Boom featured me on their website. You can take a look here.

Creative Boom is an excellent online magazine showcasing talented creatives, networking events, creative jobs and plenty more. I highly recommend having a look at Creative Boom, and perhaps getting involved too.

Storybird

I am also really pleased to tell you I have recently been given an online shop on StoryBird. If you are unfamiliar with Storybird, it's a fantastic website that allows children, teachers and families to create children's books from a huge variety of illustrations. You can share your stories online with friends and family. You can also get your stories printed and sent to you so you can keep them forever. It's great to see lots of people having fun creating stories with my artwork. I'm really pleased with the ideas and stories created using my illustrations. You can have a look at my shop here and begin creating your own stories.

BAF

This Friday (12th November), I'm attending BAF 10 (Bradford Animation Festival). I'm really looking forward to the talks, workshops and overdosing on plenty of animated shorts.

Should be fun! :)

Chris

Colonel Windpipe's Musical Brigade

I've just submitted my character for the Colonel Windpipe's Musical Brigade collaboration. I chose to create a rather dead looking zombie aimlessly bashing his drum. The project has been set up by illustrators uberkraaft and Lesley Barnes and will eventually become a large printed project.

You can see my artwork and all the other talented artists contributions in the Flickr pool here

You can also read the Colonel Windpipe blog here

Enjoy :)

New Website!

Happy days! - I have a new website! :)

My website redesign has been something I've wanted to do for quite awhile now. I realised that most people just don't have the time or patience to look at every single page on a website. Therefore I wanted to have a simplified design to show my artwork.

So...

I got cracking designing the layout whilst my friend Tom Rhode's coded the site.

I'm very happy with the new design and think Tom did an ace job. Check it out here: Jevs Illustration

On that note, if you would like to follow me and/or Tom on Twitter, head here:

Me
Tom

Also, if you're on 5oup or coroflot then please add me :)

All the best,

Chris

OutSmart 2010

OutSmart 2010 ( http://outsmart2010.blogspot.com/ ) is an illustration project conceived by Gemma Randall. Gemma has asked artists from around the country to create their own interpretation of a Smart Car adventure. The project is hopefully going to end up as an exhibition and coffee table picture book.

You can see Gemma's artwork here: http://www.gemmarandall.com/

Click on the top image to see the illustration in detail.

Toe Fluff News

I'm happy to tell you that my Toe Fluff character has been selected to be shown at the gallery in Swindon starting 31st July. Toe Fluff is a character created by the talented illustrator, Steve Rack. In April, Steve allowed illustrators and designers across the country to submit their own Toe Fluff character.

Over 200 talented illustrators submitted their designs creating a whole range of weird and wonderful characters. A selection of Toe Fluffs have been chosen (including mine!) and will be on display throughout next month.

Details on the event can be found here: http://www.toefluff.co.uk/show/

Kyokusen-Yokocho Illustration Website

I've been lucky enough to be asked to contribute some of characters to the new Japanese vector art site, Kyokusen-Yokocho. The website celebrates vector artists illustrations from around the world. I'm really pleased to have been asked to participate to the new site!

You can see my profile here: http://www.kyokuyoko.com/2010/06/chris-jevons/

Satellite - Illustration Friday

You'd think at least one satellite might have seen this guy coming...

I've finally got around to entering my artwork to Illustration Friday. If you're not familiar with Illustration Friday, the website encourages people to create an illustration based on a topic suggested by an illustrator and chosen by the website admin. Anybody can enter and it's all just for fun! If you fancy it, head over to http://www.illustrationfriday.com/

Mad Scientist!

This is my Mad Scientist created in Illustrator for a personal project. More images of the Mad Scientist to follow later!

Creepy Crawlies

I have recently finished illustrating a character mascot for Creepy Crawlies in York. Working with Acute Marketing, my brief was to create an energetic 9 yr old character leaping through the air. The character will be used on forth coming printed brochures.

Toe Fluff!

The talented artist Steve Rack (http://www.steverack.com/) has created a character called Toe Fluff. Steve has invited illustrators throughout the country to submit and contribute their own design that will be exhibited at a gallery in Swindon, UK.

Below is my submission to the exhibition.



For more info and to see the other excellent designs, check out: http://www.toefluff.co.uk/home/

Pictoplasma 2010

I went on a two week break with my girlfriend to Paris followed by a trip to Berlin this April. We attended Pictoplasma Contemporary Character Design Festival held at the Babylon Theatre in the heart of Berlin. The festival was excellent with fantastic talks and screenings from animators and artists from all over the world. The event was very inspirational and enjoyable and we hope to return next year. You can find out more info here: http://festival.pictoplasma.com/

Berlin was a great city to explore with plenty of things to do and see. The people are very friendly and the food and drink is excellent. I can't wait to go again!

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

I Illustrated a brochure and created the above logo for The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust working with UBD Studio. The artwork spreads across both sides of the leaflet and shows a beach and underwater scene.

Feedback from YWT was very positive and I hope to work with them and UBD Studio again in the future.

York Professionals Exhibition Stand

I recently collaborated with the good folks at United By Design to create an exhibition stand and leaflets for York Professionals VentureFest 2010 stand. The process involved creating different business characters such as IT Support, PR and Legal in Adobe Illustrator. The design was finished in Indesign by UBD Studio.

The exhibition stand and leaflets was very well received and helped York Professionals have a successful day at VentureFest event.

in the images above, you can see three of the vector characters, a photo of the various leaflets and a rather blurry photo of the stand taken on my iPhone at the exhibition.

Happy New Year!

A belated Happy New Year from Jevs Illustration! I am currently working on a slight website redesign with new content to be added shortly.

I'll also try to share more of my illustrations and include tips, tricks and perhaps the odd tutorial too.

Here is a recent character created in Illustrator to get the ball rolling...

Chris

Christmas Time!

Jevs Illustration has been very busy working on a few Christmas related projects this festive season. This includes a printed Christmas Card and animated web banner for Applied Web Analytics. Also, after the success of the welcome card created for YSJ University in August, I have been asked by the Vice Chancellor to create this years animated ecard. My brief was to create a cute and fun Christmas scene that YSJ can send out to all their important contacts.

The card has been a success and YSJ are very happy with animation. Below you can see an image from the YSJ ecard and the printed AWA card.

Merry Christmas!