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SAVE OUR SOULS

if you havent already then get over to our sweet degree show website SAVE OUR SOULS. contains all the info about the show, a gallery for each exhibitor, a shop where you can buy loads of great stuff we've made and a blog updated daily about one of us and our work. its just plain great.

SAVE OUR SOULS

lenin//stalin

alexis

meet alexis. alexis was the son of one of russia's tsars later ousted by the bolshevik revolution. i'm going to be posting some more sketchbook stuff up here in an attempt to actually post drawings. doing a project about Makhno's Insurrectionary Anarchist Army of Ukraine but proper finished pieces are coming along slowly. but expect them soon, as well as a re-print of Great Anarchists with new colour cover, and a show at Wah Nails which opens April 1st.

just us.

i have been accepted to be part of this years just us design collective, which is a collective of graphic design and illustration students whose roster changes each year. pretty exciting! me and jordan chatwin are as far as i know the only camberwell dudes representing. expect to see a portfolio page on their new 2010 website soon, i'm sure i'll post it when its up. rad.

makhno rules. trotsky sux.

here's a drawing for the go red charity auction. ill post the blog at some point, but right now its down, so keep your eyes open. i got this really great book of horrible slick nineties poses and faces from a charity shop and am going wild using it for face reference right now. so good.

here are some 7" single covers for songs on the master of reality album by the masters themselves, black sabbath. ltr,ttb: after forever, solitude, children of the grave, sweet leaf, embryo and into the void.


and here's a non-folded cover for Soul Control's Involution album. just needed a break from all the sabbath worship. i like it though. it should be mentioned i think that i only made covers for the sabbath album and this one because i dont have the original sleeves. so they are pretty much just for my collection than anything else. obvs the 7" covers arent but school is school. thanks

updates

hello. hopefully at some point i will be able to actually scan in some drawings to show but for now here is the only photo i can locate of any of my record covers project. this is a cover i did for black sabbath's master of reality. just handed in 50% of my degree so no access to work right now and also shitting myself. spent yesterday eating loads and watching star trek as a "break". life could be worse.

in other news me and sam had a table at the Lancashire Zine & Artists Book Fair. here we are looking pretty nerdy. it was a cool weekend for sure. half way through the coach journey my friend ross text me saying i was on Fecal Face! and lo and behold, when i managed to get on the internet there I was just underneath news that J.D Salinger had died.

you can check the full write up of my zine One-Nil if you follow this link. it's pretty crazy being on fecal face as i definitely remember around art foundation time being obsessed with the type of work thats often on there, and getting boards from our garage and doing really shitty paintings that i'd then throw out. definitely been a major influence over the years. so thanks trippe!

in other blog news, got an email yesterday saying i was on the twenty2wo blog. and there i am! thanks guys, check it out here

and to finish off, see who you can spot in this:
big up alex, cat & emma. hahaha

the frontroom

the sweetsheets over at The Frontroom blogged about my new zine! how lovely of them, if you ever find yourself in cambridge (hometown), i highly recommend heading to their little gallery as it's great. Tinhead has a show there right now so check them out.

http://www.frontroomcambridge.com/2010/01/18/peter-willis

a rough update.

Hello hello, this has been neglected of late, but here is a quick run down of exciting things happening;

• One Nil is out and available and finished, you can view proper pages from it on Dead Trees & Dye, just follow pete willis illustration and its the top link. You can even buy it via paypal!
• So far it is stocked at Lik & Neon on Slater Street off Brick Lane, but I will be posting a more comprehensive list of outlets when I can.
• You can also buy it and look at images on Arcademi
• And it will be featured in a great new exhibition The Art of Zines, at the Anno Domini galler in San Jose, California. So go check that out in Feb if you are local. I will be showing One Nil and my Great Anarchists zine.

Otherwise though I have been working hard on schoolwork, currently doing record covers for Master of Reality by Black Sabbath. I have about a week left so hopefully I can post some images soonish. Just need to get to a proper scanner or camera. Also done a couple Soul Control sleeves on the side so will post them too.

Also I've been asked to take part in a zine workshop day and fayre coming up at Westminster Kingsway college. I think its the 3rd of Feb but I am not too sure. Also I'm not sure if non-students can attend but hopefully I will have some more info soon. Imagine me talking to people about making zines? It's really really easy, you just do it. Viva la zine.

oh and also a few years ago one of my zines, Click #3 (i think), was featured in a zine exhibition by Nieves which took place in Stuttgart and I think a few other places. I had no idea until I saw my name on the Nieves site haha! Anyway, the zine was a collab between a bunch of amazing people I know so heads up to them too. here is a picture.
you can see ours bottom right-ish

Anyway, thanks for looking at my blog, its been a crazy few months and isn't stopping any time soon (keep an eye out for zine covers, contributions, comics and a whole bunch of school work), but please if anyone can help me with some money or a job that would be great. Times are tough!who wouldn't hire this!? p.s-i screened that shirt.

it's finally here!

i finally got 500 copies of my new zine One-Nil through the post! proper details to follow, i will update the website with it properly when i get a chance. it's £3 though, ill try and set up some sort of paypal thing but just give me a shout. dope!

xmas cards.

here are some of the christmas cards i made. they are all gone though because i didn't make very many. happy holidays!!

christmas fairs.

sorry for the big break in uploads, been a bit hectic end of year, etc. where did 2009 go? woahhhh. anyway, we are scrambling together bits and pieces to raise money for our external degree show so me and the rest of the fundraising gang have been very busy producing stuff and putting on fairs. above is the poster for our very successful (if i dont say so myself) christmas fair at college. i did the title lettering, chie miyazaki did the drawing and jordan chatwin did the other text and put it all together. thanks to everyone who came and bought prints, cards, zines, cakes, anything. it's greatly appreciated.

and here is the j-dog sipping on some mulled wine at a stall we had at the brick lane christmas market on saturday. we spent a couple days going crazy making canvas bags and t-shirts especially for it. i'll post up some of the bits I made later on, i made some christmas cards, a new zine called 'Post Coital Notes' which i've actually left in london so will have to scan at a later date, a couple of bags and a couple of t-shirts. nothing crazy. i'll keep you posted. x