Thursday, August 11, 2011

101 of the Best Geek-Out Moments illustration in SciFi Now

If you pick up the latest issue of the excellent SciFi Now (issue 57) you can see the illustration we provided for their feature "101 of the Best Geek-Out Moments". It's a great article that looks at those excellent moments, in-jokes, easter egss and pop-culture references that really appeal to sci-fi and fantasy fans; including Stan Lee hulking out in the Incredible Hulk and the legendary Bruce Campbell getting the best of Spider-Man. "Groovy!"

You can see more about SciFi Now on their website and follow SciFi Now on Twitter. Seeing as we mentioned him, you can also follow Bruce Campbell on Twitter too!

Have fun,
David
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidCousens

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

The Line Up - editorial illustration for How It Works Magazine

Issue 22 of the excellent How It Works magazine recently looked at "explaining the worlds's 100 Greatest Myths" which either verified or debunked some of the most commonly believed "facts". The feature looked at spurious claims like "A ducks quack cannot echo" and "a penny dropped from the Empire State building could kill you" which were both false, to proving things such as "Elephants are scared of mice" and "Metal explodes in a microwave". 

In fact I accidentally proved that last one first hand once when I left a fork in a bowl once, you actually get these tiny mid-air sparks! Fortunately I stopped the microwave prior to it actually exploding! This is what happens when I'm left to cook for myself! And yes, I did just refer to using the microwave as cooking!

This is our editorial illustration to go alongside the wrongly-believed idea that "Napolean Bonaprte was incredibly short" which although he was 5'5'' at that time it was a fairly common height to be. Having to draw world leaders in an homage to The Usual Suspects was great fun, and Churchill really came out of it looking quite the bad-ass, which we're fairly sure he'd approve of!


Have fun,
David
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidCousens