low tide

this was done for Gallery Nucleus' 5 year anniversary show.
this post comes with an apology for how quiet it's been on the surface, but with the assurance that plenty is going on underneath. should be lots of new stuff to show soon.

drew's illustration blog

hold on to your socks, guys. drew beckmeyer has an illustration blog.

http://drewbeckmeyerillustration.wordpress.com/

U2 single cover

This is an add-on to the U2 video i worked on. They'd asked for a single cover to match the video, so David came up with a design and we did some colour work on it and did the text using the font we'd made for the video. We sent it off and then didn't really hear if they liked it, but i guess they did cause it's on there!
there's even a vinyl version, all big and everything!

more details and a link to bigger picture over on David's site:
http://www.davidoreilly.com/2009/09/u2-single-cover

half minute horrors

This picture is for an anthology of short works called 'Half Minute Horrors'. It was put together by Susan Rich, and its got quite the list of people in it. I don't have that list, but I do know that Margaret Atwood, R.L.Stine, Lemony Snickett and Neil Gaiman are all in it. The royalties from the book go to First Book, a not-for-profit organization that brings books to children in need.

http://www.amazon.com/Half-Minute-Horrors-Susan-Rich/dp/0061833797

4pm tour

This is an illustration i did for the aforementioned book project. It is an illustration to accompany a terrific short story by Jez Burrows. Jez also wrote a short story to go along with my Waterfall picture, and it is really really cool. You guys should get this book. Here is a flickr set of the other pieces in the release show that unfortunately i could not attend because of the atlantic ocean.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/analoguebooks/sets/72157621383104876/

U2 video

U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight from David OReilly on Vimeo.

(you can fullscreen that)

I was the art director/production design type guy for Mr. David O'Reilly on his new video for U2's latest single, “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”.
its up in HD on David's vimeo page as well:
http://vimeo.com/5699275

If this seems a little different from my usual stuff, a look around David's site should explain the shift. If you haven't been there already, shame on you. Go educate yourself:

http://www.davidoreilly.com/

we are the friction

this stack of paper will be turned into a book that i am in. i have two illustrations, one old and one new, in a project being released next week called 'we are the friction' put out by Sing Statistics in the UK. it's being billed as a 'an international illustration and short fiction cage match between 24 writers and illustrators (in handy book form).' there's some great people in the book, and i'm at once humbled and proud to be in there with them.


http://www.singstatistics.co.uk/

i'll post more about it when it comes out!