What took you so long?  I drew this concept for Chukka Caribbean on 4 small pieces of paper from a note pad and I drew the first ever concept for them on a napkin at my sister’s dining table in Victoria, BC, Canada, in January 2005 … dready shirts

In 2008, just a few short months after dreadyworld became a business, it took on the first big dready project: the Cayman Islands government were implementing their new Freedom of Information Law and wanted a user friendly User Guide to the Law and dready was asked to illustrate it.

I’d done some images without dready in them, with things like stingrays and turtles and dready ‘stuff’ but this commission for Andrew Moon of his house in the Cayman Islands was that certain something that spun me off into the direction of dready art and not merely because in

dready starts out as hand drawn concepts. More often than not I use Japanese watercolour pens, pencil, sharpies and whiteout … I use whiteout to get the ‘shine’ on glass. Some people like the look and feel of the hand drawn stuff … these were done for Susanne Fredericks

the big thing idea behind dready art was that it be ‘simple’ in its representation of stuff it wasn’t to be exact but to be recognizable … Daniel’s Chickens are a good example … there I was busily drawing chickens that looked like chickens when Daniel Ebanks stopped by