Why We Left The Earth

Back in 2011, I contributed to a small film called Why We Left The Earth, and now you can see it online!



Tanya J Scott did all the hard work, so I think you should let her know how much you like it, because I think it looks great!

Alice in Wonderland Pottery Photos

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So, as promised, here is the finished Alice in Wonderland pottery for Aston Pottery! Looks good eh?

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All photos courtesy of Aston Pottery.

Newsy News

Hey folks, 

Sorry it's been such a long time since I posted anything on here, but rest assured I'm still alive and doing good. I've been fairly busy since the last update, did some animation work for Scriberia in London, some medical illustrations too. 

Also, the long awaited Alice In Wonderland pottery is coming out this week, so I've had a few last minute bits and pieces to do on that. In fact here's a picture of me that accompanies the press release. I didn't want to be in a photo, so did this instead. You can expect more info and pictures on the pottery when it's released!

Also, I've been busy updating and redesigning my portfolio website too. It's taken me a while, doing bits here and there, but it's almost done. And it now has a proper domain name! How exciting! 

You can check it out here:

joe-collins.co.uk

Long Time No See

Hello everyone,

Sorry it's been so long since anything new appeared on this here blog. I'd like to say that I've been busy, but that's not totally true...
Anyway, I'm back! Hooray.

Here, have a picture of a viking:

In more important news, you may remember that last summer I designed some Alice in Wonderland characters to be painted on to a giant teapot for Aston Pottery. You do remember? Good. Well the pottery has decided to release an entire range of Alice in Wonderland pottery, so they've asked me to come up with some more designs.

Here's the King and Queen of Hearts and a couple of card soldiers:

Hope you like them, there's some more to come soon!

Christmas Pottery in Britain Magazine

Here's another post about the Twelve Days of Christmas pottery, you must be getting fed up of it by now. 

Well anyway, it was featured in Britain magazine, a national magazine which is all about (unsurprisingly) Britain. 

Apparently it's adorable, which is nice, and also it describes me as 'young' which is even nicer.

Thanks Britain magazine!

Twelve Days of Christmas Pottery Available Now!

The time has finally come! You can now buy the first two days of the Twelve Days of Christmas pottery that I designed for Aston Pottery. 

CLICK HERE!

Last Night I Drew Some Knights

Last night I drew some knights on an envelope and liked them so here they are.

Christmas Pottery!

Here is some of the Christmas pottery I helped to design for Aston Pottery. This is only a sneak peak, but it all goes on sale later this month. And with 75 shopping days till Christmas day, you'll have plenty of time to buy some plates to serve your Christmas dinner on.

Also as a bonus, here's some more of the designs for the other Days of Christmas:

Four out of nine ladies dancing.

Three out of eight maids a-milking,

Buy My Cushions!

Have you ever wanted to pay £25 for a cushion designed by me? Well now you can thanks to Ohh Deer. Have a look, buy buy buy and help me win the next stage of the competition. Remember, it’s never too early for Christmas presents! 
Use the links below to buy them!

ohhdeer.com/pencils

ohhdeer.com/building-block-town

Chickens

Chickens are literally one of my most favourite things to draw. Here's the ones from the Christmas plates but in a different colour.

Ohh Deer Pillow Fight Competition

I just submitted some designs for the Ohh Deer Pillow Fight competition, where you design a cover for a cushion and if your design gets chosen, they make it and sell it and you get 25% of the profit. Pretty cool!

Have a look at my entries over here. And there's some more details below:

Some More Twelve Days of Christmas

Here's some more of the Twelve Days of Christmas designs, Three French Hens, and Four Calling Birds. They haven't been approved by the pottery yet, but I thought I'd put them up here.

Also, as if it isn't obvious, Six Geese A-Laying. But they're not on a plate yet.

More Christmas Designs

You may remember that back in July I mentioned that I was doing some Christmas designs for a local pottery. They eventually decided on doing a Twelve Days of Christmas theme, so here are my designs for the first two verses of the song.
These are just the designs for the plates, but there will be mugs, jugs etc with the same designs too. The pottery plans to release two designs a year, so it'll takes six years to build up the full collection. A small guaranteed job for me for the next six years then. Nice.

Photos coming soon!

Cow-Boy

I am fully aware boy cows don't have udders, but I'm going to play the 'creative licence' card.

Truck Festival 2012 Photography

Emmy the Great

Mystery Jets

Theme Park

Last weekend I went To Truck Festival in Oxfordshire to photograph the bands and artists for The Line of Best Fit website. These are a couple of the best ones.

To read the review by Andy Johnson that accompanies the photos, click here.

Christmas Designs

I know it's totally the wrong time of year for this, but here are some Christmas designs for the same pottery that I did the Alice In Wonderland design for. There's quite a lot more, including some Twelve Days of Christmas ones, a nativity scene and all that Christmassy jazz, but these ones are my favourites.

Here are some plate designs:

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And if the pottery doesn't like any of them, well I'll just make loads of Christmas cards this year. We shall see...

Buffalo

Q. What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

A. You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

Bear

Every now and then I get the urge to draw a bear. Even ones with really long necks.

Horsing Around

Today I drew a horse, I think he may be Spanish, or just likes prancing around in a Western somewhere.

In other news my friend Josie asked me to make a quick logo for her brand spanking new website. You should check it out: josiegallo.co.uk

Patterns

All I seem to have been doing lately is using geometric shapes. And as there's nothing wrong with that, here, have some patterns. The third one is very basic I admit.