Commercial Illustration
Welcome — you’ve landed in a mix of then and now.
Here lives an archive of client-commissioned illustration made pre-2025, alongside a current contemporary practice i'm focusing on pointing forward. The archive showcases professional experiences responding to briefs, collaborating with clients, and working across physical and digital formats.
Illustration for Packaging & product
Visually problem solving mediocraty
This archive presents a selection of client-commissioned illustration and visual storytelling projects completed prior to 2024. The works shown span comics, editorial and magazine illustration, covers, picture books, album artwork, and published narrative projects, created for a range of commercial, editorial, and cultural clients.
All pieces on this page were developed in response to specific client briefs, editorial guidelines, and commercial objectives. They reflect professional collaboration, adaptability across formats, and experience working within real-world constraints. These works are commissioned projects, not personal or self-initiated work.
While this archive demonstrates a strong foundation in commercial and editorial practice, it represents an earlier period of output. Currently i'm focusing on a contemporary body of work, exploring new visual directions, themes, and approaches beyond traditional client-led commissions. This section remains available as a record of past professional work and applied illustration experience.
Album cover art & Music posters
Book Covers, Comics & Picture books
Editorial magazine & blog article illustration
Darrell Thorpe
STUDIO FORPE
A graduate in graphic design, Forpe has spent his career mastering the art of visual language — translating complex ideas into physical products videos, and images that help brands communicate to consumer .
Alongside his design journey, Forpe has continually explored his own inner landscapes through painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graphic art, weaving together decades of reflection and creation