Dan Leydon

I'm Dan, an illustrator & motion designer Here's a showreel of some recent client work danleydon.com

Collection is growing! 🔴

I wrote about Ronald Araújo lfcarticles.substack.com/p/araujo-bre...

Collection is growing! 🔴

I wrote about Ronald Araújo lfcarticles.substack.com/p/araujo-bre...

review: YOSSI BENAYOUN Here’s the first article for my LFC focused substack. My aim is to deliver high concept articles about aspects of Liverpool. So this format is simple, it’s a player review lfcarticles.substack.com/p/review-yos...

YOSSI BENAYOUN

review: YOSSI BENAYOUN Here’s the first article for my LFC focused substack. My aim is to deliver high concept articles about aspects of Liverpool. So this format is simple, it’s a player review lfcarticles.substack.com/p/review-yos...

Working on a new LFC ARTicle exciting for me

C A V A N 🇺🇸

🚨🚨🚨 LFC ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨🚨 I'm starting a dedicated LFC Substack 'LFC ARTicles' will be a library of illustrated articles about any and all aspects of Liverpool Football Club There's already 5 articles up NO PAYWALLS Sign up in the next tweet 👇

Kvara has ruptured his ACL 😩 I wrote about what he means to football danleydon.substack.com/p/the-weakne...

Kvara has ruptured his ACL 😩 I wrote about what he means to football danleydon.substack.com/p/the-weakne...

'football ARTicles' is my newest book 🚨 Over the last year I've written and illustrated 32 articles about football covering a broad range of topics, this is for every fan of the game. www.danleydon.shop/product/foot... [ every purchase gets a free bookmark! ]

'football ARTicles' is my newest book 🚨 Over the last year I've written and illustrated 32 articles about football covering a broad range of topics, this is for every fan of the game. www.danleydon.shop/product/foot... [ every purchase gets a free bookmark! ]

Here's my first #LFC article: Schrödinger's Barcola danleydon.substack.com/p/schrodinge...

Here's my first #LFC article: Schrödinger's Barcola danleydon.substack.com/p/schrodinge...

I write & illustrate football articles on my Substack I've started a separate #LFC section 🔴 there's no paywalls 🤯 you can sign up at the link below 👇

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I wrote about the 'Guardiola Overthink' 🤯 danleydon.substack.com/p/artefact-t...

I wrote about 1966 as a national burden for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 danleydon.substack.com/p/artefact-t...

I wrote about why USA was Haalandmaxxing during the 2026 World Cup danleydon.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

My latest book is the first release from Solo Run Press. It's a collection of football articles that I've written & illustrated over the last 8 months on my Substack. It tackles subjects across the breadth of the sport from USA Haalandmaxxing to the burden of 1966.

I hear independently published books are cooler than other books

I hear independently published books are cooler than other books

That Liverpool loss felt really pointless somehow, first time the Premier League has felt anything other than an eternal cultural entity. It’s shown how it could go the way of Serie A in terms of reputation after Calciopoli.

A quick walk through of my portrait practice ⚡

I've tried to make something I myself would buy

football writing + football art 152 pages ⚽️📕

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a few official Messi projects over the years 05. I created this trading card for Topps

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a few official Messi projects over the years 05. I created this trading card for Topps

I've been lucky enough to create artwork on a few official jobs with Messi 🇦🇷🐐👽 04. I also created a deck of cards for this Adidas commercial featuring the man himself

I've been lucky enough to create artwork on a few official jobs with Messi 🇦🇷🐐👽 03. I created a sticker set all about Messi for Gatorade. I've seen this one on so many compilation videos over the years.

I've been lucky enough to create artwork on a few official jobs with Messi 🇦🇷🐐👽 02. I created the animated memes in the news section of this World Cup advert for Gatorade and I also made the portrait of Suarez on the free kick dummy

I've been lucky enough to create artwork on a few official jobs with Messi 🇦🇷🐐👽 01. I storyboarded and illustrated (Marco Cardenas animated) this video for MLS to announce his move to Miami

early reports are saying it's a "tour de force" 🔥

early reports are saying it's a "tour de force" 🔥

Now on sale!

football ARTicles now on sale 🔔 152 pages of illustrated football writing Only 80 copies available www.danleydon.shop/product/foot...

My new book should be on sale later today (if I can figure postage out for every single country on earth in the meantime)

How I drew the body art

How I drew the portrait

I created illustrations in Procreate, then used Photoshop for colour tweaks. The layout was created in Adobe Illustrator & then everything was combined in Photoshop. I went a bit looser than usual with my art. I think it's better to capture personality than exact facial proportions.

How I drew the body art