I would say that Glen has a style heavily influenced by retro cartoons and comics, his colour palates are gentle on the eyes yet still pack enough punch to give the characters some extra life. There is quite a lot of emphasis on the lighting on and around his characters, the light is emulated with a white mark. His heavy weight black line changes in size slightly to pick up the smaller details of his piece which fits in and pays homage to the traditional comic book/cartoon style. Most of his images are rendered digitally but there were some on his website that looked more hand made, see below for examples.
Obviously some of these images are still rendered digitally but they still have hand made features and textures about them, either that or Glen is really great at emulating hand made textures.
Most of Glen's images target a younger audience, after looking through his client list I can confirm that to be the case as he has worked on various illustrations and comics for kids including some comics based on Star Wars Published by Dark Horse Comics. His clients also include Mcdonalds and Simon and Schuster, both of which are big names to have on an illustration CV.
After going through Glen's blog I was able to find out some more information on the image he worked on as there was little description on his professional site. He worked on a book collection titled 'My Teacher is an Alien' which was a book I was looking into during the early stages of my dissertation, it would have been pretty awesome to work on a book with such a cool concept.
Glen has quite a large online presence including a Facebook page, Blogger, Glossom and a Thats My Folio. He also makes appearances at local art fairs such as Victoria's Ultimate Hobby and Toy Fair where he sells mini prints and autographs his work. He also has an online store and his books are also on the Amazon listings making him quite easy to come across. Finally I have found some of his books in stores such as Waterstones, this is one of the best methods of marketing he could get, to land a book in a big branch store can have great results.
I couldn't find much on Glen's agent but I found out that he works in a studio that he shares with his wife and cat, id assume the cat doesn't do much art. Glen has had work in TD Art Gallery and according to his blog post he appears at recurring events there and has done for a while.
Reading through Glen's blog was pretty interesting as it showed me how busy he can be, one post stated that he was really busy getting work finished for a load of different clients, it seems that he doesn't have a lot of time to take on commissions, there was also nothing on his blog to support him taking any on.
Glen makes prints and paintings to sell on his online store, he also makes appearances at comic book fairs and art shows where he sells mini prints and things. He seems to update his store quite frequently so there must be a high demand for his work. He seems to balance out doing art for fun and as a career pretty well.
After sweeping through Glen's blog and looking at his impressive client list I couldn't find anything about him having any other commitments, he seems to be able to sustain himself using his chosen tricks of the trade. every week he seems to be working on something new, may it be character designs for an advert, new pages for a children's book or even some new paintings to go in a gallery.
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