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Sorry for my absence this year!! it's been a busy one.

I have not produced too many images to post on this page as my spiral studio project has been pulling in the lions share of the work this year ...

[link] & [link]

There is an interview with my alter ego coming up in computer arts in the early part of next year. It has been providing me with some fantastic projects here are just a few ...

An Exhibition piece for my agent ... [link]

An advertising & packaging job for pretty polly tights ... [link] & [link] & [link] & [link]

Sooo many book covers!!

And just completed another advertising job here in the UK but that one is under wraps for a while.

No to say that I have had no work in my painterly stylee ... One very exiting job but it is a secret (really I am not allowed to tell) but it will be out & about in the early part of 2010. I am just finishing (yet another) book cover but when that's done I am going to spend a month overhauling my 'darren hopes' folio and making lots of new images so I should be posting more stuff soon!

Drop by & say hi ... it gets lonely in my studio & if I don't post before HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!

Thanks to everyone who comments & faves & watches I do try to comment back!



[link] - web
[link] - spiral
[link] - my
[link]rofile - face

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/23740861/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/23740861/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:56:41 PDT
But last week I found out my cat Shmitten had cancer and yesterday she died. I loved her so very much and she will be so badly missed. A little piece of me is gone today.

I love you sweetpea, rest in peace baby.



]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/21927216/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/21927216/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:58:24 PST
It was a good year all in all (apart from the shit weather), had some great jobs in both my illustrative and photographic styles ( [link] )

I have rouded off the year with some great editorial jobs for the likes of Arena, GQ, Fortean times and Mojo magazines ... I just love editorial. Arena has constantly found mad subjects for me to illustrate including ahem! anal sex, divorce, transvestite bikers and dick cheney with GQ not to be outdone presenting me with sexual frustration and (really there is such a thing) nude female sexual adult wrestling! Fortean Times is just great and I was secretly rather chuft with the illustration I have just done for them. Can't say too much about the Mojo job as it's not on the selves yet, but I got to hear a sneak preview of a new song which will lodge in your brain & refuse to budge.

I have been a bit of a media whore this year appearing in Advanced photoshop, design week, 3x3, creative quarterly, computer arts (spiral), new york arts (spiral) with appearances coming up in two illustration books in 09 'the atlas of illustration' and ' the big book of contemporary illustration'and a plethora of online magazines. For someone who gripes about celebrity it's really not on!

New erotic study ready for posting - second image with Nesis - [link] that should go up soon.

Have great 2009 all! and thanks for watching.

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Like a LTD edition print (only 10) of the cutler stag? [link] ... go on! it's the must have christmas present of 08

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myspace - [link]
modelmayhem - [link]
facebook - [link]

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For not replying and generally neglecting you all! I will eventually get around to it but I have been mad busy of late, one of the busiest periods I have known and all advertising work just recently which tends to be a little higher pressure than the editorial & book cover commissions.

It's been an international journey too working for an array of great clients in the UK, USA and Austria. If you live in London you may spot posters in the underground and on taxis & buses for 'wizard of oz' ... it was a job for my 'spiral' persona [link] and saw the style head down an unusually bright path (yellow actually). The US job was very exiting, again for spiral.

You can (if you are so inclined ) read an interview with yours truly in Advanced Photoshop magazine this month. Also 3x3mag and creative quarterly.

Spiral also makes an appearance in New York Arts magazine.

If you have sent me some photography to work with I have not forgotten you! I am itching to get started on some of those but just need to tame my logjam of work before I get started on the personal pieces.

If you fancy a big signed print of the cutler stag ltd edition (only 10 folks) you can get one here - [link]

to you all!

Dxx

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Web - [link]
myspace - [link]
modelmayhem - [link] & [link]

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/15701972/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/15701972/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:46:24 PST
Of late my erotic study series has been heading in the direction of finding models from here and I quite like that so if you fancy appearing in one let me know, I would love to collaborate with models & photographers for this series.

The only request I have is that any supplied photography is not stock and is created for the illustration and is in that respect a true collaboration.

I would need a high res file.

The series is erotic so should have an erotic edge but that does not mean it has to include nudity, the right clothes cam be incredibly sexy.

Please bring a little of yourself to it, send me in new directions.

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Also, for those of you not inclined to populate my erotic manifestations, I would love to do some portraits. Portraits of artists ... I would love to start a series like that so if you are interested in that I would love to hear from you. I have a couple of people in mind but as the notes are not working ?!?!?!?

It would work like this ... artist submits a highres photo and a photo of a single object that is personal to them (I would be happy to do the photography if you can get to Cornwall)

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My Agents exhibition at the fantastic illustration gallery in stroud - [link]

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web - [link]
myspace - [link]
prints - [link]
alter ego - & [link] ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/15385761/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/15385761/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:32:04 PST
It occurs to me that DA should have an 'illustration' section to it ... in it's own right (not 'drawing & illustration' that narrows the field way too much and suggests a lack of depth of understanding of what illustration actually is) it should be a section in it's own right that then narrows down to drawn / digital / technical / photo-illustration / children / sequential / fashion ... ect

I think DA can not ignore one of the largest and in my opinion greatest fields of art & design, and one that is enjoying a boom in practitioners.

What d'you reckon?

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I recently had two pieces included in a collective exhibition 'consequences' along side some incredibly talented artists. The concept was that each artist submit an A2 panel, the horizon of which ran through the entire instillation.

You can get the idea if you take a peek at [link] which is the image I submitted for my spiral alter ego and then place it next to [link] (with this one on the right) see, the horizon joins up as did the other 60 images!

Anyway the exhibition is now moving on from the original gallery and is at the lovely illustration gallery in stroud. If you live near by go have a peek! ... *** [link] ***

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web - [link]
myspace - [link]
prints - [link]
alter ego - [link] & [link]

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/13881963/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/13881963/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:24:39 PDT
lot's and lot's of commissions, did my first TV ad, got a tattoo, changed agents, got a new puppy called squiggle, designed a tattoo for Sarah, drank a lot of tequila and absinthe, started work on my first music video (slow progress), started to learn animation, created a new pic for a collective exhibition in London later this year, my alter ego got shortlisted for erotic photographer of the year, got rained on a lot and watched the river nearby swell, found a snake in my garden and got a bit of sleep in between.

and that's about it.

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website - [link]
alter ego - [link]

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/11995390/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/11995390/ Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:33:07 PST ) [link]

I don't write much these days, I am not very good at it but I used to write a lot when I was younger.

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I am working on a new editorial and my alter ego spiral is creating a book cover

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prints - [link]

myspace - [link]

web - [link]

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my alter ego - - his website - [link]

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/11632080/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/11632080/ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:22:02 PST
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working on a book cover

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do any of my american frinds go to Tufts uni? if so keep an eye on your uni magazine as I just did the cover and a series of inside illustrations

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old songs that are very good ...

Apache - incredible bongo band
theme to bullit - lalo schifrin
theme to taxi
also sprach zathaustra - deodato
starsky & hutch - james taylor quartet
persuaders theme - jon barry
t plays it cool - marvin gaye

feel the funk!

(and barber's adagio for strings ... so beautiful)

D xx

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prints [link]

myspace [link]

web [link]

my alter ego

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/11321570/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/11321570/ Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:15:58 PST
I have nearly 1000 comments and faves ect so I won't have time to reply to all so a BIG to you all and have a fookin fantastic 07.

I will post some more work soon!

xx D

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my alter ego

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web

[link]

prints

[link]

myspace

[link]

british museum of erotic art

[link]

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/10299968/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/10299968/ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:14:14 PDT

Still pretty busy with work and renovations of the mill ... builders in today, starting to convert the attic & tower into what will be my bedroom & studio

Very nice job on at the moment for Dixonbaxi who are an advertising company made up of ex members of attic ... you know attic right? if not you should they are somewhat talented. It's a comic strip for set of postcards for the sci-fi channel ... always wanted to do a strip so a great opportunity and a great opportunity to vent my dark half in the commercial world. It's looking like a cross between my spiral style & my darren stuff. I will post sometime in the future.

You can spot some of my stuff lurkig in computer arts and a feature on spiral in nude magazine ... [link] ... check out the mag, very cool!

Again sorry for lack of response to stuff at the moment ... hectic times!! I will post some of the commissioned stuff I have been working on, not much personal work going on at the moment

to you all!

D xx

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my alter ego

]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9799606/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9799606/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:53:55 PDT reading: books in storage too
listening: thank god for ipod ... all my CDs & Vynal is in storage too

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Well OK it's not dark or particularly satanic but it is a mill & it is in England and it is where I am going to live

Moving down to Cornwall so sorry I have not had time to reply & thank, I will be without internet for a while to but I am almost desperate now to do some personal work so expect some in the near future, I had a rush of commissions leading up to the move so I really want to do some personal stuff.

Oh man! it's a very old building with a huge amount of work that needs doing and 5 acres of land that is pretty much wild but what can I say it felt like home the second I drove up to the place.

And it has a river! and a lake! and swans nest there! it was used as a fish farm once and there are still huge koy carp in there! it has a tower too! and maybe bats

I feel lucky to have found it and possibly a bit mad to have bought it.

Back soon!

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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9432942/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9432942/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:20:35 PDT
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Watching: Factotum
reading: some old comics I found when I was packing my stuff
listening: flevans - make new friends

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whew! commissions are like buses.

personal work is on the back-burner again as I have a clutch of jobs in. For anyone who is interested a book cover, 3 editorials, a possible CD cover and a logo for a record label. I have not done many logos ... that will be fun.

in my absence why not check out my spiral journals ... [link] ... and have a look through the previous ones. I have an account there so I feature photographers & illustrators & painters all of whom are worthy of a check.

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Some things should transcend politics, some things are more important that who is right & who is wrong. There are no excuses for certain acts. Some things are sacred above all else and a childs life is one of those things.


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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9360939/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9360939/ Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:34:52 PDT reading: PK Dick - short stories, Tao Te Cing & Fortean times of course
listening: leggo beast

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I have a techie question for any of you out there who are so inclined.

I am not too bad with my mac but this one confused me. For a period of time this morning all of the images I viewed via the internet became distorted and appeared like low quality or repeatedly compressed jpegs ... they loaded fast but the quality was crap, I did not reset anything and the problem was computer wide and happened in both of my browsers. It seems to have rectified itself now but wtf

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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9338994/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9338994/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:29:40 PDT reading: Tao Te Ching
listening: 310 - after all

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there is a wealth of inspiration in fortean times ... to come in the things fortean series

poltergeist
spontaneous combustion
impossible places
crop circles
aliens
strange abilities (lots under this)
stigmata
a whole plethora of beasties under crypto-zoology
synchronicity
many conspiracy theories
shit! there is lots

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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9327443/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9327443/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:16:52 PDT watching - rain through my window
reading - the tao of physics

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Well done Italy! ... well deserved

Well done France, such a close match! ... Zidane!! .... ooohh! I just found out what was said to Zidane! I gotta say it was pretty provocative in the circumstances ... he remains a football hero

Well done Germany brilliant hosts.

Sven

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my alter ego - ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9256321/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9256321/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:01:32 PDT )
reading: patrick woodroffe
listening: nostalgia 77 - the garden

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el chupacabras is coming

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England


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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9185122/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/9185122/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:19:45 PDT watching : world cup
reading : fortean times

But football will bring us back together again.

Me & my muse had a tiff (everyone does) we did our best to sulk but damn! the match between Argentina & Mexico made it impossible, it was soooo tense we just ended up on the edge of the sofa talking footie & being generally over exited. What a game, no one deserved to lose that one ... thanks to both teams for their relationship counselling

Commiseration's to my Dutch friend out there, again it was a hard if entertaining game ... I think the ref was trying to send off all 22 players so he could have the field to himself.

England 1 - 0 wwwhhoo!! but I think we need to up the game a bit now.

Sorry to all of those of you who really could not give a f**k about the footie I will be back to talking art soon.

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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/8831371/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/8831371/ Sun, 21 May 2006 03:11:45 PDT watching - napoleon dynamite
reading - fortean times

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It's Sunday & I am working ... ah! it's not so bad ... just a few tweaks on a little ad job with a hellish deadline.

My exiting job is done ... it was the cover of the new J*S*T*A*R*S album ... very exiting as I have been a big fan of fila brazillia & all related sounds for a long time so when I got a note from Steve Cobby asking me to do the cover of his new LP I just lost all sense of professionalism and became a star (no pun intended) struck fan

I produced three possibilities, two in my darren hopes / plainme styleee and one in my spiral flavour. The final artwork went to spiral in the end and i have to agree it was the best of the three.

I will post the other two here soon and the final artwork at my spiral page for your viewing pleasure ... or displeasure depending on your taste


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my alter ego

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website - [link]
myspace - [link] ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/8607866/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/8607866/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:31:53 PDT watching - the world go by
reading - fortean times

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I made some more prints available - [link] ... it's cheaper than wallpaper

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my alter ego


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little advert ---} my web-site was designed by 'mymatejake' [link] and he's great! ]]> ~plainme http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/7757283/ http://plainme.deviantart.com/journal/7757283/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:43:15 PST reading: Time Out of Joint by P K Dick
watching: the clock

Hey all,


my web site is up & running check it - [link]


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Really sorry if I am not getting around to answering your comments I am soooo busy with work web-sites & exhibitions.

Keep 'em coming I love reading them but I might not get around to answering for a while.

So sorry! for now.

*Vox pop Exhibition - [link]

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my alter ego ]]> ~plainme