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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
I got a message from my friend last week, her little boy had received an invitation for a BWFC Soccer Stars Party.. The message was this image with the text…’Are these Yours’ lol. My answer? ‘Yes…yes they are’. I feel so proud to do the illustrations for Bolton Wanderers. They are always so nice to work with and when people tell me they have spotted my illustrations in the programmes, on the score boards and around the stadium, i’m always really chuffed. My friend has given the invite pride of place on the fridge door, little does she know I’m working on this seasons players as we speak 
watch this space!!!!
Tags: bolton, children, children's, club, football, illustrator, invitations, junior, kids, official, party, wanderers, whites
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
Look out for a special offer on one of the books I have illustrated for Star 789 in London Mums Magazine next month. In honour of the 2012 olympics, star 789 are offering readers the chance to win 10 signed copies of their book Nelson ‘N’ Deck: How the Adventures Began. To enter look for Details in London Mums magazine. In the meantime you can check out their website and some of the other books I have illustrated at www.star789.co.uk.
Tags: 789, bus, dec, london, mums, nelson, pidgeon, star
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
So those of you who live in Bolton might have noticed the new artwork in the BWFC club shop, I have been very privileged to work with BWFC again on their Christmas marketing campaign. The brief was pretty open this time, they needed a wintery scene which featured Lofty and Father Christmas.
As my previous Lofty was considered the iconic image of him, and has been used on all the Superwhites marketing since I drew it around 2 years ago, they were keen to have the same Lofty on the Christmas images so it tied in, which was fine my me 
They also requested a clean look, which would also appeal to a slightly older audience. As always it was a pleasure working with Bolton Wanderers and a complete bonus that I got to walk through the home tunnel and go pitch side 
So here it is, my finished artwork as featured in the windows at the BWFC store.
Tags: bolton, BWFC, cartoon, Christmas, club, Father, football, illustration, junior, lofty, Marketing, reebok, Santa, soccer, stadium, super, wanderers, whites
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
So I had a call a while back from BWFC, they were launching their new kit in weeks and the players were unavailable for photographs. They needed artwork and they needed it fast.
The brief was simple, we want player caricatures in the new kit, the twist? We want them as superheroes and we need them in days. Cue Stacey working round the clock to deliver the goods. They loved the end result and I was over the moon when I saw my artwork plastered all over the windows of the club shop.
Nothing like a challenge to get the creativity flowing
Tags: bolton, chueng, club, davies, football, holden, kevin, kit, launch, lee, muamba, reebok, stewart, wanderers
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
So today I got a brief to draw a cartoon image to appear on the packaging for a whoopee cushion. The existing artwork was this wierd ‘stylised’ picture which didnt really show what the product was about, so my brief was simple, show a kid how to use a whoopee cushion. Immediately the first thing that came to mind was my not so wasted youth scouring the pages of my uncle’s 1980′s Beano annuals, tittering to myself at the ingenious illustrations of Leo Baxendale, the original illustrator of comic strips like The Bash Street Kids. Just looking at these illustrations takes you instantly back to that era, where parping was funny, Walter was a softy and the class bully was a right old rotter!
Take the illustration above for instance, I still find it hilarious that Teacher’s wife is just teacher in a wig, and the little touches like his front gate being canes is genius! I wanted to try and capture a little bit of Baxendales style in the whoopee cushion illustration, to reflect the old school fun that it represents.
So here is my Leo Baxendale inspired whoopee cushion illustration. I have tried to capture the spirit of old school Beano whilst still keeping it current, it basically does exactly what it says on the tin. All it’s missing is a little PARP sound effect. Love it!
Tags: bash, Beano, cartoon, comic, cushion, dandy, freelance, illustrator, ilustration, kids, parp, rotter, street, strip, whoopee
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
So during my tedious dinner hour at work I decided to have a bit of a doodle. I took a suggestion from the office to draw my colleague Dave as a robot. so I did and here he is! He didnt take me very long, about 2 minutes, but i think sometimes quick doodles are the best. I think I will try to make a regular feature of my dinnertime doodles, and keep the 2 minute time limit. A nice way to break up my working day 
Tags: box, challenge, dinner, graze, quick, sketch, time
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Check out the dough models I made at work today! Sometimes when we are working on the packaging for our products we have to physically make the items and take photos for the packaging. A lot of the time we can use stock images but in this case there were none suitable. I think I found a new talent!!
p.s. I have also decided play dough is not as versatile as plasticine!
Tags: dough, photograph, photography
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Hooray! After months of thinking about it I have finally taken the plunge and got myself a new website! The main features of this site as opposed to my old one is that I can update my portfolio a LOT easier so you can expect new work to be appearing regularly. Also I have incorporated my blog into the main site so my old blogger followers can now follow me vis RSS feed!
I am absolutely loving my new site but couldn’t have done it without the help of my web designer buddy Dan. Anyone looking for a revamp should definately check him out at his site.
Keep checking back for up to date work or better still subscribe to my RSS feed at the bottom of the page!
Stacey x
Tags: cartoon, freelance, illustration, illustrator, UK
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