The genius of Matthew Layzell

Pupkin's New Pet from SHIDDY IMAGE on Vimeo.

The rules be as follow....

1. Make an animation in only 3 hours.
2. Have both types of genitalia.
3. Listen only to the 1st rule.

Here is where Matt stores the real goods... (His webbedsite) Ch-ch-ch-check it out!

My champ

Ponce

Faces for Char-Char

Lick it

!!NEW WEBSITE!!

Sooo I recently updated my website -About time! Check it out HERE

Heartache

Little White Lies

Okey doke I know I've already posted these pics but I thought I'd show 'em in context. Yep yep.

Saturday Guardian

Whoop whoop just had this wee blighter in this Saturday's family section of The Guardian

Shining Magazine

The lovely Marie at Shining Magazine has just included me in her latest top 7 illustrators! Yip yip. Ace site indeed!

Little White Lies

The latest of my work for the uber radtastic magazine Little White Lies 

Lewes Live Lit - A Festival of Words

I recently had the task of designing the Lewes Live Lit brochure for their festival of words, entitled 'Free Speech'. The festival was to encourage teenagers to get excited about words whether it be through film, plays, music or more conventual forms such as spoken or written word. Sounds like the whole thing went really well! Here's a glimpse of the brochure cover and poster used for the final night.

A spot of light doodling

This was really just a bit of a play around but super fun so I'd like to do some more... Might even try and get a bit of drawing skill going on... Maybe.

true dat

Insects and shapes

This is a little play around with a few painterly shapes... Welcome to insect world.

Mmm uh-huh

Home Time

Jeez I have so many pictures that I haven't scanned in yet... I need to back date.....

buddies

Woooah been a wee while...

....As you can see by the dates this bad boy is all over but it was a rad night down at Jaguar Shoes and everyone that came down seemed to have a good'un. There was so much yummy work around I'm surprised I didn't spend all my wonga! Thanks to the peeps that organized it and good luck with your future show!

Big ups

The very nice peeps over at doodlers anonymous posted a few niceling words about my work so just wanted to say cheers zehr much!

The latest scriblinks

I want to be a mermaid.

Best unicorn song I ever did hear.

Uh-huh

Melancholy kitties

Boiled shrooms

International Group Show Mo Fo

So this is the second round of the hot little number that is The Joyful Bewilderment. The first group  show if you recall was held at Rough Trade East -The place was packed for the private view which was rad! Round deux shall be held at the delightful Analogue Books in EDINBURGH... Anyone around the area should hot foot it down on Saturday 28th March for the opening par-taaay! Hot art work and luke warm booze -What more could you ask for eh? If anyone is interested in buying a piece of my work then just drop me a mail or for details of anyone elses contact these guys.... The Outcrowd Collective :)

Volcom

Hey it's not exactly one for the glory book days but considering these are the only peeps up then it's kinda neat that they're allowing my wee beastling up too (You may need to squint to see it!) Check out the Volcom site proper style right here

Yeah Milk!

Last time I was in Brighton I decided to paint a little milk jug as a wee thank you pressie for Katiepoos. Uber fun to do and you get somewhere to store your milk -Bonus! I'm going to do a teapot next... Excitotron!

Big cat nom noms

This is another A2 beastling... Fun fun

Big cats in the garden

This little guy is actually a rather big A2 painting and just so you know, putting such a picture back together on the commy isn't so cool when you've only got an A4 scanner. Hmm I think it's time I invested in an A3 scanner. 

Pretty faced kiddo

Dead things Mikey, dead things.

Daydreaming all day long baby

My favourite pastime like you didn't already know... 

Donna Burton

This is the final image and text for the Donna Burton interview in issue 13 of Huck Magazine. She sounds like a pretty rad lady.  

Yeah! HUCK MAGAZINE Interview

A big high-five to the wonderful people at Huck Magazine! Not only have they featured me amongst their shiny pages they have also done a wee interview online too so if you're at all wondering what the dickens is happening underneath this here screen grab and why my cat is looking so fricking aloof then please take a looksies here. ( O.K the aloof bit is still a mystery but the rest is all there...)

Passi Pocket

A lovely lil lady called Pas has just started up a new blog and seeing as she asked so darn nicely I happily donated a couple of images for her to use on her site. Check out her blog as I reckon it'll be a good'un. Brrrap.

Julia Pott goes pop

Big ups to Julia Pott and her new blog POP APRICOT ...She's an animator/ illustrator superstar so ch-ch-check out her work pronto like a flash and get ready to be excited! She's rather kindly put some linkage up to moi on shiny new Pop Apricot so have a peek... I'll just pretend it's not because we're mega bezzas... 

Illustration for Supersweet

Supersweet finally got super fucking sweet... Check it out here

Willyfest

Sooo... er yeh repeat is pretty swell non? Is anyone up for making really inappropriate wrapping paper?

Stoked

Errr please excuse the rather budget style photo... It looks better in the flesh... Honest.

Hello

I'm pretty sure this wee bird is super stoked on something... I think we should all walk around like this, maxi-happy and rosy-cheeked.

Sunshine drawing

O.K I'm not usually in the habit of posting anything other than my illustrations on this thing but I kinda had to put this one up. My friend just sent this photo over and it's got this magical split frame thing happening that means you could pop up next to any old thing. Wowzas. Also any Red Stripe sponsorships out there, look no further! ...I miss sunshine.

Achey eyes

I'm pretty sure this is some sort of illegitimate love child.

Songlets

Do you know what I mean?

Lost Love

This is what happens if you get stuck on a 6hr long car journey with nothing more than some really cheap A4 paper and a bright pink felt tip.

The Huck image in full

Okey doke here's my image for Huck Magazine in full. If you fancy a nose at the article you can check it out here.

Ups and downs and downs and ups

Umm...

I was playing around with one of my drawings on the computer and it kinda turned into what appears to be four giant fannies.

Huck Magazine Issue 13

This is a wee snippet from my latest image for Huck Magazine. The mag should be out either now or pretty soon after now so go grab yourself a copy because it's an ace magazine. I'll post the full image up soon...  Yes yes. 

A good combination

Bad places and good times

I don't blame him

Stitch That are raaaad...

A big hello to Stitch That, a super ace video collective from London. They slipped me into their links like nicelings :) aaaace.
Check out their videos here, I particularly like the The Metros making of video ;)

Supersweet

This is an image I did for super ace Supersweet, don't think it'll be up on their site for a wee while but when it is I'll no doubt holla again...

Er slightly more relevant in the summer...

SCREAM FOR SCREEN PRINTS!

Only 20 prints were made and I have 10 to sell... Well only 8 now really...
WITH FRAME - £70
WITHOUT FRAME - £50
If you're keen for the inky matter then please follow the lovely little paypal link... (that will be along shortly) Ta very much :)

Lady love

Document +1

Super ace of Document +1 to big up 'Screen If You Wanna Go Faster!' Check their site HERE 

THE JOYFUL BEWILDERMENT

Check out Marcus and Simon's TJB feature in LICK... HERE

ROUGH TRADE SHOW moves on...

Well THE JOYFUL BEWILDERMENT Rough Trade collaborative show has finally come to an end but word has it the show will be steadily making its way around the country so stay tuned for where to head to next...

For price lists of all the work for sale (including my own -no.65) take a peek HERE and for any other info and general happenings take a look HERE

Defo

This little fella has a new home...

I traded with this fella... :)

DOCUMENT +1

Just perusing the rad site that is Document +1 and saw I was listed in their links page -STOKED! Big muchos thankos to you!

Go pick up a mag -It's free and it's ace :)

Screen time... £70

Rightio then I've had lots of lovely interest in the screen print so thank you all! To those I haven't already told the print will be priced at 70 of your finest goldy coins :) I'll have them available to buy via paypal from the 9th (the day before the PV) and of course at the show itself. The most important thing is that you all come on down for a looksies and a talkfo... YEAH!

4 colour screen print for SALE!

This little beast will be an A2 image printed onto an A1ish size. 20 prints in total, all of them super sharp, printed by Stu Love'n'Skate the genius screen printer. Work sold as part of the 'Screen if you wanna go faster' exhibition. To reserve a print please contact info@amyillustration.com :)

Screen if you wanna go faster!!

This is going to be a rad little show with some shit hot artists... Everyone is welcome so please come down for the PRIVATE VIEW ON 10TH DECEMBER!! We'll be drinking our merry little hearts away...! There will be a super limited run of prints to buy so first come first served... They'll all be at a pretty sweet price too! Nice nice.

New friends

My cat Millie-Rad

HUCK Magazine (Click for link)

This is kind of an oldie but click the link and have a ganders at the page :)

Fixie YO!

THis is an image for a little project due to take place in Rough Trade (at some point?) The brief was to make up a band name and T-shirt design. Some light hearted mickey taking had to be done...

Greg Burne talks about Amy Brown's work! CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK!!

!!!! once loaded drag ILLUSTRATION MAN onto 'LIGHTBOX' then CLICK ON THE FIRST VIDEO !!!!!!

Here is the lovely Greg Burne (Big Active Creative Consultancy) talking about my work for Noise Festival 2008... Whoop whoop!

Have a looksies... (If you like)

the boy

Sanity please

run run...

B-B-B-Birdy

Ella Bella's

A present for Patrick and Ella...

This image has been swiped from the blog of 'Viktor Vauthier' I made the wee canvas beastlings a while ago but they're only just saying hello... BONJOUR!

This is Mr. Rabbit heart.

The Joyful Bewilderment... At ROUGH TRADE EAST!!

If you're feeling gold plated part with your fine money and buy up the place. It's going to be fookin amazing!

You can buy my original DICKEYES piece so come along for a gander :)

The Joyful Bewilderment....

yessums

....

YEAH! Finally scanned in my life.

Little White Lies

You can find this beastling in the latest copy of Little White Lies. Tis an ace magazine.

------------> http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/

WARM MOVING BODIES...

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!! SHOULD BE ACES!

more wrapping paper...?

repeat the agro heart...

Wrapping paper?

you heard him...

whoop whoop NY means no images for a wee bit...

bird-oh

wee fellas...

more sketchbook doodles...

...and the drop-ins...

The article is really ace so you should give it a peek!

just so you don't think i've ditched the paints...

Latest image for Huck Magazine. O'neill Big Mountain Pro!

jonny oh jonny

i'm still here... oops!

sketch book page jazzed up a little. innit.

sign here death face

A sad day

TAXI DESIGN

The nice folks at Taxi Design gave me a portfolio space on their site... HAVE A LOOK and check out the other artists.

(click on the title for the link)

Doodle Jam!!

Last Thursday I pitched up and did my stuff at Doodle Jam, held at Legion. Cheers to everyone that came down, it was aces! I'll be taking part in the next one so will try to actually post something up BEFORE the event... We made it to Timeout's recommended list but I guess that's not too much help now.

Who the?

3 colour screen print...

Tea anyone?

O.K I know this has the Volcom symbol in it but it's not actually for Volcom.

The Amersham Arms - Circus exhibition on NOW!!

A few photos from the current exhibition at The Amersham Arms (New Cross). Cheers to 388 Crayon Club for organizing the shindig. Come on down for art, ale, and cake.

The Amersham Arms

A wee collection of my bits 'n' bobs at the show

The Amersham Arms

The Amersham Arms

The Amersham Arms

Cor it's been a while!

from my brain to the sketchbook...

Bearded Magazine

Check out the latest Bearded Magazine for the rest of the article on Stiff Records...

i saw it all

like a rainbow it was...

Belated Thursday love...

Hope you had a good'un...

The circus peeps say howdy

This is a wee drawing for the 'Amersham Circus' a collaborative show with lots of hot at drawing lovelies. More info on this coming SOON!

Shut Magazine - The Love Issue

Issue 3 is now out so I'm showing this pic in full...
Please note: This is probably not the most tactful way to finish a relationship, so remember kids, don't go trying this at home...

A wee slice from a children's book

Amongst other things I'm putting some time aside to work on a children's book... It's a mission as I'm writing and illustrating it myself and I'm not too sure at the moment whether the story is a winner or a loser... but at least I'm having fun. This is just a teeny part of a large double spread. Hope you like :)

The Pursuit artwork!

The Pursuit want me to do all of their artwork which is pretty cool. Here's the first of many images, it's just a wee piece for their myspace background. (Get tappy with the title to listen to their music!)

It's nice that...

'It's nice that' put a wee bit up about me on their lovely site. Cheers zehr much. (Click on the title for a gander!)

Sunday's birdie

friday's kitten bat fox

another sketchbook drawbling

Exactly

I guess it's officially the next day so hey presto... another scribblink from my sketchbook

Ah mid week weep...

Here are a couple of images I found whilst looking in my current sketchbook. I should probably keep them secret...

Shut Magazine

This is a teeny slice of an illustration for the uber ace magazine Shut (issue 03). It's not out yet so I don't want to completely give the game away but the blue guy has got his cock out.
(click on the title for link to Shut!)

Woh haven't updated this bad boy in a whiiiile

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! ...only a week or so late.

A slice of the future

A lovely chap asked me to draw a family he new in 'my style'. Here's a slightly altered snippet. I'll post the finished pic up AFTER christmas just in case their eyes come thissaway!

PROOF that it really exists...

Cheers Amelia for giving me loooadsa work :) Lovely lady, lovely mag. Aces.

Kyle Green is aces

Kyle is a Santa Cruz unicorn. He skates for Death and so far has made pictures for Consolidated and Death's skateboard bellies.
Above is an image from his blog that I think is maxi-splendid. Check out the rest at http://cancerlounge.blogspot.com/
Yo!

Final one I promise!

Sneaky peek at my double spread for Amelia's Magazine 08... The SUPER BUGS edition.

cont. cont. cont.

...and the back! some subtle pencil sex going on...

Amelia's Magazine continued...

The front of the A6 notebook FREE with the 08 edition of Amelia's (designed by moi). There is also another notebook available designed by the rather awesome Protey Temen (probably shouldn't have highlighted the fact that you guys have an option!)

Amelia's Magazine

You could own my illustrationiness and a fabulous magazine in one! Oooh...

Pre-order order from Amelia's website or wait a wee while for it to be in the shops...

Oooh for yooou

Oooh.

http://illustrationfridaynight.blogspot.com/

Wintery fun

Awh I really like leaves too...

Dark cold house

Power cuts are overrated.

Little Pumpkin

They need to be told.

Meano

Oh the joys of swears.

Guardian editorial

An editorial piece for last Saturday's Weekly Recipe.

Fight!

The longest fight on the planet.

Oh the woes...

Tea? Yes please!

I think I'll make a pot right now...

Hot Hot Hot...

This drawing is slightly different to some of my other stuff but I guess at least it shows I can do 'straight' illustration -right?! This image along with 5 others was used for a naughty massage book (it was quite interesting trying to find it amongst all the other books in the sex section!) Here's a pic of the cover (I didn't do this one though -mine are all inside)

paper meets knife and hideous combo of colours

StinkO at the discO. I couldn't stop colouring...

Design Freak

Please click on the title for the link and leave a few wordlings on the Design Freak site... It will be like christmas and easter all rolled up into one chocolatey chocolate fest... mmm chocolate.

What has happened here?

You're just one click away from ruining a beautiful friendship. Don't do it.

snap. crackle. pop.

A selection of teeny bug stars -they're mega famous in Bulgaria.

Tuesday's beastling

Man Vs. Monkey

A wee illustration for 'Illustration Friday Night'. IFN: over 300 (dis)proofs of God's existence.

My shiny new website...

http://www.amyillustration.com/

Ooh yeah I'm real chuffed with this! It was made for me by a lovely guy called Adam Kolakovic and it is my new home for all my illustrations. Well some of them anyway. THANK YOU Ad!

mmmmm teeeeea

It's been a while since I last put something up here... The pyramid has changed. KItten=1, Illustration=0.

Friday's blip

Couldn't resist putting one more up.

Use your head

I've actually put this design onto a t-shirt and it looks rather nice -well the lovely Tim wears it so it must be nice. trumpet. own. blown.

Thursday.

hmmm.

The love game...

Hopefully not always the case.

YEAH!

I love Shirted Ape! They said YEsss to my design so it should be rockin up on a jumper/tee/bag/small dog near you SOON(ish). Really rather happio :)

Today's slice.

Skipping straight to W.e.d.n.e.s.d.a.y is a wee bit naughty OOOh.

heart. severed hand. bird that is happy. ACE.

The Saturday pen walker/photoshopster

This is a reworked image from a previous post. I've entered the shirted ape jumper comp (2 colour screen print on a jumper) with this design ...hmm really not sure how they're gonna take it... Wish me luck!

Illustration Friday night - 'Inspired by...'

Hmm I had to put this one down to all the naughty stuff that has already been posted on the illustration friday night blog.

Illustration Friday - 'OPEN'

Open wide m'dear and EAT. OOh yeh. Good luck to everyone else taking part in this weeks comp :)

Friday's beast

It's Friday so I'll cry if I want to. Or something like that.

Amelia's Magazine

Just one of the many bugs that will appear in and on the 08 issue of Amelia's Magazine -out later this year (so I guess not long then!) I loooove that Amelia!

Thursday's scribble monster

Not much to say about this one really.

An old(ish) book but thought I'd post it up anyway...

My illustration is the one used on the far right of the front cover -SCORE! If you click on the title it will take you to the BUYING ZONE on Amazon... Nice nice eh?

http://illustrationfridaynight.blogspot.com/

The nicelings at this site let me post up something pretty much all about poo. ace. YEAH!

Ooh tis Wednesday I believe...

Magic man will magic your head. OFF.

Tuuuuesday's scribble...

doop de doop de doo wop.

Stuart Kolakovic

The ultimate geghead illustrator... Oh man he's good.

Oops time for a catch up on the daily images m'thinks...

...Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and one just for funsies. A slight cat theme going on because I'm getting a KITTEN- Soo excited! Eek!

Birthday!

Tim's gay birthday cardness because he is sparkle boy. Mwah ha ha...

Daily image...

We Show Up On Rada R...

Howdio... Just to show I'm thinking about it but for the actual one I really want to do something with more pics on like tiny meow meow kittens and stuff like that -kind of like the animal sports day. YEAH!

Don't forget to ch-ch-check out 'It's nice that' for my featured work...

http://www.itsnicethat.com/index.php?id=418

A wee selection of scribbles...

A selection of images from my small press 'The RSPCA are nice to animals you should be too, probably.'