About Me

Hello there!

I'll keep this short and sweet... I'm just starting out in graphic design, and am really keen to increase my portfolio. I specialise in personalised vector graphics, and if you don't know what that looks like, then have a scroll down. All the following pictures have been drawn by hand (well, mouse) and take me ruddy ages!

If you are involved in any interesting projects and would like me to help out, drop me a message with all the details and I'll see what I can do.

These images look absolutely kick arse printed up as posters - in fact I have the De Niro pic printed in my living room at soundrome towers! If you're interested in comissioning a piece of work for any reason, decoration, a present, pure vanity, then again let me know. Obviously these things take a lot of time, and I am willing to do the work for Â£35 - I can get them printed up for you for around Â£25 depending on size, or e-mail you the image at the required size for free!

Enjoy, and any feedback is appreciated!

Rich

The Kray Brothers
Nobody important!
Veronica Lake, 40s/50s film starlette
The wonderful Daniel Johnston
Charlie Bronson - Often labelled Britain's most dangerous inmate...
Mark E Smith of The Fall
The legendary Richard Pryor
Frankenstein's monster
June Knight - another old 40s film starlette
Keifer Sutherland, as his character in Lost Boys
Thora Birch
Nina Simone
Mike Patton
Joe Strummer
Oliver Hardy
The man, the legend, Mike Patton
James Dean
Serge Gainsbourg
Keira Knightley
DJ Blend, Bournemouth DJ
Billie Holliday
Robert De Niro, scene from Taxi Driver
Pepper Keenan, of Down and COC
Yes, it's a chimpanzee!
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler
French Vicky
Scarlett Johansson
The lovely Kristal - in charge of the Patton Platinum Group.
Carrie, a Bournemouth girl
Oliver Hardy, again
Another random local lady
^^^Yay, it's me!!^^^
Some work for MC B@T
Hmmmmm... Divinity, of TalkHard fame!
Mr S Clause
oohhhh... pussy's done a whoopsy etc.
If you really want to be a poppet, why not stick my banner in your myspace by copying the code below into your profile! It's only little and it's quite pretty! Look ^^^ I doubt anyone will bother but it's worth a go!

My Interests

Music:

I am a complete music geek, and love going to as many gigs and festivals as possible. I've been to the last 12 Reading Festivals and plan on making it to the next one!

My all time hero is Mike Patton, and I love all his projects - in particular Fantomas, Tomahawk, Mr Bungle and Lovage. Check out my review of he Fantomas Melvins Big Band in my blog!!

I'm into pretty much all genres - from Motown to Metal, and the soundrome playlist after a few beers tends to include things like Pixies, Mclusky, early Idlewild, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, Hundred Reasons, The Pharcyde, Marvin Gaye, Cable, Aphex Twin etc etc

Books:

I read quite a bit, and particularly like cool crime writers like James Ellroy, as well as factual books about anything interesting (although they tend to be dark subjects like fooball hooliganism, prison life, murderers etc).

Favourite Books are:

Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell

Happy like murderers, Gordon Burn

L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy

I also have a inexplicable obsession with Viz magazine - it is sooooo purile it just makes me chuckle!

Heroes:

Mike Patton

Brett from the Donnas *swoon*

My Blog

Reading Festival Photos!

The Reading Festival last weekend was awesome, and I know some of you would like to see some of the photos....Let's start with my cool-ass tent - it was a "paint your own" by Eurohike. It got daubed i...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:16:00 PST

How I do these pictures....

There have been a few people on various art sites who feel that I create these images by "cheating", i.e. using filters or bitmap traces which do the work automatically (and neither of which I underst...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 17 May 2006 11:41:00 PST

The Fantomas Melvins Big Band, London May 1st '06

Hey! As most of you know, I went to see The Fantomas Melvins Big Band in the London Forum last Monday, and I promised I'd get my hands on some photos and write a mini-review. I've just remembered tha...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 08 May 2006 09:59:00 PST