Richard Swarbrick

December 27, 2012June 14, 2013 | Simon Boulton

Part of my inspiration for designing cards has come from artist and filmmaker Richard Swarbrick. For those who are unfamiliar with his work follow the links below, but I can tell you that several of his football animations, for The Sun, have become viral sensations on YouTube. In some ways I prefer the single illustration images to the animated videos, as they capture some fantastic sporting moments.

The sun advert — Rooney by Richard Swarbrick

Website – http://www.richardswarbrick.com/

Work for The Telegraph cricket – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/picturegalleries/9741834/India-v-England-fourth-Test-in-pictures.html

Photogram images

December 22, 2012July 13, 2015 | Simon Boulton

These are the photogram images that have been used on the T-shirts and are a set of six. They all feature the theme of farming and a football related title or quote.

Football related text — Dairy cow photogram

The overall image uses a combination of photography, the photogram process and some digital manipulation on Photoshop. The starting point is a photograph, which in this instance is a dairy cow.

From this photo I made a cutout stencil to create the actual photogram, which has been made up from football related text from magazines. Then using Photoshop’s blending layers the photogram and digital image are combined.

Original photogram — Dairy cow photogram

Shirts with photogram prints

December 20, 2012July 13, 2015 | Simon Boulton

These shirts were used as part of my art and design foundation year exhibition for farming based project. I hope to post images of the photograms used on the shirts soon.

Dinosaur card

December 18, 2012May 25, 2016 | Simon Boulton

One of my latest card designs of a Tyrannosaurus with Happy birthday text. I’m continuing to use the text font ‘Orator std’, this time in black which goes nicely with the teeth. This card is available to purchase from my shop here

Greetings card — Dinosaur Happy Birthday

Leics vs Glouc county cricket

December 17, 2012July 13, 2015 | Simon Boulton

Photographs of the first day between Leicestershire and Gloucestershire at Grace Road, with Gloucestershire batting, using my Fuji s4400 camera. I took quite a few photos, with these four of the better images.