Update on some current projects: Metroid

30th anniversary Metroid tributes

Super Metroid Tribute

Metroid: Zero Mission work in progress

In 1986 Nintendo released the seminal exploration game Metroid, the Metroid series has always been one of my favourite gaming series. the series keeps to it's themes of alienation and loneliness, something that mainstream games don't usually attempt. to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the series i've produced some posters using an aesthetic inspired by 80's print comics and Saturday morning cartoons.

Exploring Anaglyphic Illustration

Koi -Jonathan Scott

Merchant - Jonathan Scott

Shinobi - Jonathan Scott

Recently I started a mini project exploring a mixture of  two visual aesthetics that I have a passion for, Japanese wood block print and 1950's anaglyphic 3D imagery.

The project resulted in three poser prints and a short exploration into using this aesthetic in a sequential, narrative art form. To create my images I used a mixture of printing ink, drawing and digital manipulation.

Comic, an alien encounter - Jonathan Scott

Jack Sprat Issue 2!

Preview of 4-pager in issue 2

Jack Sprat Magazine issue 2 is out and ready for purchase, Like in Issue one, I have a 4 page comic in the book. This issue's theme was crayons and colouring!

Cover art by Slake Saunders

Jack Sprat is now available in digital as well as physical formats! you can get your copy of issue 2 from here!

INDYPLANET

Jack Sprat Magazine No.1 launches today!

Cover Illustration by Slake Saunders

I'm pleased to announce that the new magazine "Jack Sprat" launches today, edited by Emily White. the launch issue features an array of flash fiction and short comics, created by Silvia Carrus, David Duke, Louis Netter, Victoria Caswell, C.E Lamb, David Robertson and myself. The first issue can be downloaded as a PDF for free up until the 15th of September, if your interested in downloading a copy or see what else Jack Sprat Press has to offer, you can find them Here

Here is a preview of the short-form comic I have featured in the September issue:

Farang: Red and Yellow

Farang: Red and Yellow is a 24 page comic exploration into the 2014 Thai coup d'etat through the lens of a western eye. I created this comic with the intention that Thailand's Coup crisis will enter the public consciousness and spark a conversation.

Preview Spreads of 'Farang: Red and Yellow'

production on Farang is going well, interpreting heavier themes through an aesthetic thats relatively new to me has been equally exciting and unnerving. Farang features a look thats intended to strike a middle ground between the underground antiestablishment comics of the 1960's and 70's and a more modern independent look thats more widely seen now. 

A brief preview of the comic i'm currently working on "Farang: Red and Yellow"

Latest comic work

A brief preview of some of the mini comics i'm currently working on, a lot of heavily textured work. looking into exploring this print textured look further.

Work from the latest sketch jam

Other pieces from the jam proved much harder to scan, I may continue the comic started that night, depending on the time I have between now and when I leave for Thailand. Sketch-Jams can be a blast, a fantastic way to meet other creators and get the creative blood flowing.

Introducing: Ring Master Baite's Catalogue of Curiosities

Now that we have this finalised I can announce the collaborative project that i've been involved in! over the last couple of weeks or so I've been working with six other illustrators to produce a zine visually commenting on human oddities, displaying satire by taking the form of a "modern-day freak show" (poking fun at many channel 4 and TLC documentaries that exhibit people as modern-day oddities). The zine features a varied aesthetic as it cycles through the six drastically different illustrators visual trademarks.

Cover by J.J Scott Illustration

If you, or anyone you know may be interested in purchasing the Catalogue of Curiosities, it will be available in limited quantity from Room 237, Albert Road, Portsmouth, depending on the response we get from the zine, a second printing is a possibility.

Artwork by J.J Scott Illustration & Rozelle Hawes

Artwork by Fiona Simpson & Meredith Phipps

If your in anyway interested in the six other illustrators who collaborated on the project you can find their respective websites below:

Rozelle Hawes: Rozelleillustration.tumblr.com

Fiona Simpson: Echoduste.weebly.com

Meredith Phipps: Meredithphipps.tumblr.com

Melissa Lihou: Melissalihou.blogspot.co.uk

Yada Subhadhira: Mongir.tumblr.com

Erin Hodgson: Erin.Hodgson.blogspot.com

She, Who Said No: Montgomery 1955

The completed book from my civil rights project, focusing on Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott. designed to suggest that this book could be passed between people in secret, I wanted to keep the format small and compact. This book is meant to remind the owner that it's always okay to say "no" to an oppressor.