john welding illustrator

A drawing I did for Bradford and Leeds University's 'You Are What You Ate'...
Click here to find out more about the project from the Wellcome Trust website.


Agbrigg & Belle Vue Banners Large scale community banner project for Wakefield Streets.	The Accidental Animals Children's book illustration on safety and everyday hazzards.	Quest Conference Large live drawing and street performing conference sketch book.


Will Skoggin's Skull Published comic strips based on 19th Century folk tales with a twist.	Drawing Wakefield Exhibition of large scale drawings and sketchbooks at Wakefield art Gallery.	Harry Potter Drawing Project Showing school children the basics of character design using well known faces from the Harry Potter books.


Transport! What's UR Problem The chance for young people to have a say about their transport problems and benefits.	Conference of the Birds Street theatre drawing performance & shadow puppetry in schools, based on a traditional Sufi poem..	Drawing Milton Keynes Sketchbook documention and large scale drawing at Milton Keynes shopping centre.

John Welding is a freelance artist and illustrator specialising in sequential art, autobiographical comic strips, illustration and good old fashioned drawing. John is self taught with over twenty years of commercial art experience. Recently he has collaborated with international storyteller Ben Haggarty illustrating the 19th century folk tales of 'Will Skoggin's Skull' for The DFC comic. In 2008 he was commissioned by Wakefield Art Gallery to transform his illustrated diaries into 44 meters of large scale wall drawings for the Art Gallery, depicting the everyday people and developing landscape of urban Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where he lives and works.

john.welding@talktalk.net
Tel: 01924 258559