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Interview with Daniel Mackie at Illustration blog “Ape on the moon”
Yours truly waxing lyrically about the benefits of ditching Photoshop and picking up my brushes! Check it out here
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Ammo Magazine. Skateboard illustration (voyage of life)
An Illustration about the confidence of youth. The sky is the limit, The skateboarder’s pose is laid back even though he is miles above the earth. He is in the clouds, feet resting on the board which...
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3 illustrations in context.
Its nice to see illustrations in context, after all they are not art for the wall they belong with the text or design they were designed for. UBM Medica Art director, Ravi Naidoo, sent over some PDF’s...
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Repeat repeat repeat!
I’ve been thinking about making a repeat pattern for a while, but was unsure where to start. The trick it seems is you need to do two designs then combine them. ILearnt how do it here. I wanted an...
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The “bear” necessities!
This illustration is of a bear, kind of camouflaged in his habitat. It was conceived with a series in mind (the others are still thumb nails in my sketch book), the theme being animals in their natural...
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The decline of an empire: Facebook is over. Illustration for Men’s style.
Facebook is over? Is it? I got this commission and it seemed I had to turn to my old hero Thomas Cole again for inspiration. This time, his five paintings, “The Course of Empire”, which he painted in...
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….of mother natures recipes…
Taking up from my earlier post. The bear is finished. Black bear in his natural environment. Well with a bit of imaginative license! image © Daniel Mackie. View Daniel’s illustration portfolio.
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“super fresh watercolour illustrations”
Some of illustrations described as “super fresh watercolour illustrations” have been featured on my modern met blog check em out. my modern met Daniel mackie
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Animals in their natural habitat. The Great Grey Owl.
This illustration of The Great Grey Owl was inspired firstly by it’s size. It is very large. This species of owl lives in the northern hemisphere, from North America to northern Asia, they breed in the...
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Skateboarder illustration in Ammo Magazine.
I got this in the post form Ammo Magazine. This illustration of mine is in issue 8. Lots of other great illustration in there. You can see this illustration in progress in one of my earlier posts here...
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
William Blake wrote a Poem in the late 1700s called Tiger. Its first two lines are: Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night…. You probably recognise it. You can read the whole thing...
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Tiger in its Natural Habitat (in the forests of the night)
This illustration was a battle! I was so inspired by the plight of the tiger that I highlighted it in my earlier post. I wanted to stylise the tiger and put his environment inside him, but more than...
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Note Cards, reproduced from Daniel Mackie’s original watercolours.
My shop has had a facelift! I have now got note cards for sale. Some of my favourite paintings have been reproduced, they are all blank inside. Check them out at my card and print shop Pack of 5...
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Illustrators Unlimited published by Gestalten
Illustrators Unlimited by Gestalten in Berlin is a collection of contemporary illustration from around the world. They included my work in this anthology, which was nice! There are many excellent...
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55 million years old lizard that’ll eat you for breakfast! Crocodile...
Crocodiles are about 55 million years old, They live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. They are the survivors, the closest thing to a dinosaur you will see that is...
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Birds, Repeating Pattern – Wagtails
I saw some Wagtails catching flies over a river in a little village called Clapham and watched in admiration as they darted about. When I got this commission I thought immediately of those wagtails....
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Contemporary legend – Sewer alligator
My illustration is of a crocodile. This story is about alligators. Alligators are often confused with crocodiles, they belong to two quite separate taxonomic families. However, I love the this story....
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Boo hoo – The Nile Crocodile illustration
Should we be crying over a Crocodile? Perhaps shedding some crocodile tears, just to pretend we care about its fate. apparently the myth about Crocodile tears comes from an anecdote first spread about...
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I Got My Fingers Tangled
There is an interview with yours truly at the superb blog Tangled Fingers, there is even a Mugshot! I spill the beans on my inspiration. It shows some of my illustrations from conception to completion....
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Alpha male. Get the hell out of this guys back yard. Mountain Gorilla
The estimated total number of Mountain Gorillas worldwide is 790. Oh dear. Guess what the reason for their decline in numbers is. Habitat loss, the encroachment of settlements into areas where the...
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