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Both The Northern Echo and Darlington & Stockton Times newspapers have written about my work being in The Adobe Illustrator CS3 WOW! Book.

Click here to read the article on The Northern Echo’s website

I am very pleased to announce that my work has been featured in ‘The Adobe Illustrator CS3 WOW! Book’.

The author, Sharon Steuer, contacted me in May 2006 saying that she would like to see my work in the book. Soon after Adobe invited me to beta test Adobe Illustrator CS3 so that I could test out the new features in CS3 and share my experiences using the program with Sharon.

My pages explain the “advanced techniques” I used to create the globe illustration for Climate Concern UK which combine vector drawings in Adobe Illustrator with textures imported from Adobe Photoshop.

The book has been published by Peach Pit Press and is available to buy now.

It is jam packed full of hundreds of techniques and I recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn more about Adobe Illustrator. Suitable for both beginners and experts.You can see the Climate Concern image in the illustration section of my web portfolio.

Last week I was invited to the official opening of the new design building at Sunderland University where I gained my first class BA(Hons) Illustration and Design almost 4 years ago.

It was a really good event and I enjoyed speaking to my previous lecturers and sharing ideas and tips with current illustration students.

On leaving the building I was given a 2007 prospectus and was thrilled to see that my spider character was used as an enormous example of previous students work with a quote from me !!

Since my last post in December I have been really busy both teaching students in 3 schools and working on several big (and exciting) illustration projects that I will be revealing very soon.