Illustration – Chris Hathway freelance illustrator and artist

The Sound cover artwork

On April 2, 2024

rm, Happy New Year?

Okay, is quiet on here I know and long overdue a revamp and an update. But just to keep things ticking over here is the cover to the new solo single from Sid Griffin (of The Long Ryders) which I was super happy to be asked to illustrate. Really pleased how it turned out.

Sid Griffin – The Sound cover art

If you want to hear the track you can find it in all the usual places including Spotify or check out the video for the single below which I also had a hand in helping create via my work over at Hathway Creative.

Hopefully more news of this nature soon, and maybe an update to this outdated website of mine.

Car Art

By Chris

On April 20, 2022

In Illustration

ave been doing some digital car illustrations and graphics for Webazoot since getting an iPad last year. A couple of my favorites are below.

You can buy the car artworks themselves on a wide variery of products from mugs to T-shirts and more. See the full range on TeePublic and on Redbubble.

New Website

By Chris

On May 6, 2017

In Illustration, Site News, Web Design

hile I’ve had the domain for about five years now, and been working solely under that banner for over three, it took me until last month to get a new, wholly work based website up and online.

I saw a local website design company employ a third party to build their site about a year ago and admit I kind of scoffed at it at the time. Given the time its taken me to get to this stage, perhaps that might in fact not have been a completely bad idea after all.

The combination of wanting to get things completely and absolutely right along with regular interruptions from more urgent (and paid) work and also the fact I wanted to cover both the Illustration side of the work I do, and the Website Design side while also outlining some of the other creative services and solutions projects have called upon in a way that, hopefully, makes sense and is easy to navigate.

Website Design Services

Graphic Design Services

Comic Strip Illustration

Poster and Website Banner Design

Comic Book/Graphic Novel Artwork

It is a relatively simple and straightforward site at this stage, with several featured projects on the home page and pages detailing the illustration and web work I do – Do please take a look at the all new Hathway Creative website.

Welcome.

By Chris

On June 1, 2016

In Illustration

Hello and welcome to my website.

t struck me looking at this website recently that sometimes the latest post or news item (which would normally sit about here) doesn’t always best explain this website.

So here are a few pieces of my illustration and artwork to get things started (You can click on them for more information about the image/project they are related to)…

And if you would like to view more you can on the artwork page. If you like what you see there then you can contact me here with regards to one off commissions or projects.

Mengage – Illustrations and Website

By Chris

On August 2, 2015

In Illustration, Projects, Web Design

t was great to be asked to work with a previous client on on the set up of a brand new project.

Mengage is a UK-based not-for-profit company working with males on health and social issues, providing resources, training, consultancy and practical research-based solutions from both national and international practice, backed by years of experience of practical work with men and boys.

Mengage website illustration I contributed both the website, logo and some illustrations to the project. The illustrations were produced both to be used on the website itself and in a number of print publications.

I’ve wanted to have the opportunity of placing some illustrations within a website layout for some time, stock images are fine but they can sometimes feel, and be, a little generic and forgettable. I think where the illustrations appear within the new website they do help to give the project and a little more depth and a more unique visual identity. The logo was also produced as a metal badge, cut to shape to help with promotion and identity, it came out really well.

Anyway, click here to visit Mengage, If you are putting a project together, do consider illustration along side stock photography, I may well be biased but I think its an underused option.