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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration beer and pump clip

Nathan Shelton — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:22:43 +0000

The Queen will be celebrating Her Diamond Jubilee over this next weekend. The Langton Brewery have created a special beer to commemorate the occasion and I have had the pleasure of creating the artwork below. I'm not sure if Her Majesty enjoys a pint but I'm sure she would like this one! Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

The Langton Brewery wood effect sign

Nathan Shelton — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:07:45 +0000

A sign designed to promote The Langton Brewery. It appears at Farndon Fields Farm Shop here in Market Harborough and is designed to have a traditional style, painted on wood effect. I would love to know if you see the sign (or any of my other bits of work) when you're out and about. Be sure to take a pic and send it to me, I'd love to post it on the blog. Cheers and enjoy!

Bullseye Stout 500ml bottle label for The Langton Brewery

Nathan Shelton — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:29:33 +0000

The Langton Brewery's latest offering 'Bullsye Stout' is now officially available in 500ml bottles. The bottles are available in selected places in the Leicestershire area. Here's how the new bottle label looks...

Also, just in case you missed them the first time around here is a link to my blog post for the pump clip and a little video showing how the artwork was created. You can also check out all the other Langton Brewery projects in the 'beer' section of my portfolio. Enjoy!

Italian frog for Warning Zone party at Firenze

Nathan Shelton — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:06:26 +0000

Yes, I know it's been absolutely ages since I last posted some work. I've actually been on holiday for a couple of weeks and therefore was too busy beforehand to update my blog (plus I forgot!). Anyway here is a frog I've created recently for Warning Zone. It is the latest adaptation of the frog character I created for Warning Zone. You can see some of the other examples in my portfolio and in previous blog posts 01, 02, 03. This particular frog is being used on an invitation for a 'Supper at Firenze' Italian restaurant in Kibworth. Check out the frog below and how the front of the invitation looks below again. Would love to know what you think. Enjoy!

Sports balls and school stuff

Nathan Shelton — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:15:43 +0000

These illustrations were also created for Stanley Baker Studios (see previous post) and designed to be simple, colourful cartoons to appear as individual stickers. The final stickers will be cut to the shape of each image and given away to school kids to stick anywhere they please! Enjoy!

Olympic/sport/school themed runners

Nathan Shelton — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:22:48 +0000

I've just finished these six little illustrations for Stanley Baker Studios based in Essex. The characters are to appear in a school scrap book for year 6 students. The theme is obviously school related characters but as it is an Olympic year they are all running and being generally sporty! We have a boy, a girl, a PE Teacher, a janitor/caretaker, a Headmistress and a good old fashioned dinner lady. Would love to know your thoughts if you have any. Enjoy!

My latest time lapse video for Bullseye pump clip

Nathan Shelton — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:58:40 +0000

Another one of my time lapse video! Here's 90 minutes of illustration and design work for The Langton Brewery condensed into a few minutes. The project was for a pump clip for the new beer Bullseye Stout. Be sure to check out my video's page and if you enjoy them, why not subscribe to my AntCreationsTV youtube channel. Enjoy!

NED Frog character design

Nathan Shelton — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:25:12 +0000

I've just finished a new frog character design for a great client River City Studio based in Kansas City. A frog character was required to help promote environmental issues for Control Service Company (CSC) and the NviroED campaign (hence the name NED). He will eventually appear on the website and in print to help promote various environmental campaigns and general clean, green living! Here's NED wearing his NviroED logo tshirt. As usual would love to know what you think. Thanks and enjoy!

If you would like to see more illustration and character design examples (which also contains several other frog characters) then please visit my characters and illustration pages. Cheers!

Langton Brewery New 'Bullseye Stout' Beer Pump Clip

Nathan Shelton — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:15:12 +0000

Here's the latest pump clip designed for The Langton Brewery in Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire. The beer is called Bullseye Stout and the image is inspired by Bill Sikes dog from Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. As usual would love to know what you think. Cheers and enjoy!

A load of Langton Brewery designs in the real world!

Nathan Shelton — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:59:25 +0000

I've posted a lot of my illustration and design on this blog over the years. Most of it appears exactly how I created it, and it's not that often I even get to see the final product and how the design looks to the end user or customer. However I have managed to take a few pics recently of a load of Langton Brewery related things. Please find several random pics below of beer bottles, signs, posters, van graphics, packaging and more. As usual let me know what you think. Enjoy!

If you want to see more Langton Brewery designs you can check them out in my portfolio.