by John | Apr 2, 2014
At the end of every rainbow there’s a…Oh… Another very bad pun to add to my growing collection!
by John | Jul 3, 2013
This started out as a bit of an experiment in Corel Painter, a great piece of software that allows you to ‘paint’ digitally using realistic brushes and media. The aim of the experiment was to see if I could create all the various lengths and textures of...
by John | Mar 5, 2013
This design features a typical yak engaged in a typical yak conversation. Yaks are notorious for their incessant chatter, which echoes through the Himalayan foothills and disturbs the meditations of the local lamas. Not really. But it’s a half-decent pun, and a...
by John | Mar 5, 2013
At first glance this looks like a simple design but it actually uses a lot of different layers. I’ve used photographs of various textures to build up the finished image, including a fluffy carpet for the fur, tree bark for the antlers, tinfoil for the pink inner...
by John | Mar 5, 2013
This design was a bit of a breakthrough moment, as it was the first time I began to experiment with patterns and textures. If you look closely, you’ll see that the T-Rex’s skin has a suitably mottled appearance. To get this effect I took a photo of a...
Home to tea-drinking dinosaurs, high-fiving lycanthropes, garrulous yaks and shifty-looking reindeer, Helicon Hill is the work of John Hughes, a designer and publisher based near Bristol in the U.K.