Jazz and Draw - Duke Ellington

Got a message from the 'Jazz and Draw' blog a couple of months ago asking if I'd submit a piece of work to their on going project. Seeing the quality of the illustrations on the site it seemed a total waste not to get involved, but I was in the process of sorting all my crap out for going back to England for Christmas and didn't have time to work on it during December.
Anyway, I got my act together the other day and began working on this. Needless to say I know little to nothing about jazz, but I came across Duke Ellington and decided I'd go with a play on his name, and researched the British duke's traditional cornet to see what the standard design was.
I then thought I'd do a 'piano themed' crown seeing as it was his main instrument and added the typeface on the bottom in white.
I'm proper mugged off with Wordpress, still trying to get my head around the templates for my new website.
You can view more work from jazz and draw at jazzanddraw.com. There's a fantastic range of illustrators featured there.

New website

I'm building a new wordpress website that I'm hoping will better reflect the current turn in my work towards graphic design. I've been really enjoying the typeface and more general design work I've been producing lately, and I think being multi-disciplined is probably more effective long term then simply sticking to pure illustration.
Soon enough I'll hopefully have it up and running with a fully integrated blog, which I feel is more appropriate because I won't be directing traffic away from my main website anymore. So basically I'll be shutting this one down sooner or later, probably within the next month.

Kim Jong Un

Here's the stand alone image of Kim Jong Un as well.

STRUT! 3

Here's the third event poster for the club night I work for in Busan. I'm also DJing that night as well.
Really happy with this. I feel I've improved in the process of making this. It's crisp and bold and I think I've handled the layout well. I'm going to stick to this format with the following posters.
I wanted to have some fun with this image which is why I went with Kim Jong Un, hopefully I won't be kidnapped or tortured for this.

Viking

Here's a piece I just did for Novel Magazine. The article was a pretty lengthy essay on how the financial crisis has always existed, so I took the line 'the vikings were the best asset strippers' and adapted that.
I'm back in England, which is mildly confusing and alienating, but that's why I haven't posted in a while. I should have some more work up shortly, I got asked to contribute to an ongoing Jazz project in Belgium so I need to do something for that.