Tumblr

I now have a tumblr. I don't really understand it, but feel free to follow me!

http://kikimcnee.tumblr.com/

Happy New Year! xoxo

Lavenders blue, dilly dilly..

Thought I'd try out the names in Lavender.

Etsy

You can now buy my Illustrated baby names from my ETSY store or my FOLKSY store xoxo

U is for...

Unicorn! Yeah, there's not many real animals beginning with U apart from Urchins, and they're a bit dull

A merry Christmas!

Here's an Illustration I did for the lovely people over at Let's Be Brief, illustrating an article on that Asda advert.

The article is here.

xx

Society6 Free Shipping

 Free Shipping on things from my Society6 store when you clicky on the link below.

 http://society6.com/KirstenMcNee?promo=3d145c

Promotion expires December 9, 2012 at Midnight Pacific Time. *Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert.

Sasha Pivavorova

Just found this on my mac, I need to start drawing people again soon I think

medieval bestiary II

I've finally finished my essay and cutting the linocuts for doing prints of my animals. In the meantime I have these up for sale on Society 6.

Enfield

Peryton

Catoblepas

Wolpertinger

Leucrota

Society 6

Someone suggested this website called society 6 to me in regards to selling my work, so I've just signed up and posted my first thing that you can buy! I will add more at a later date when I'm not in the midst of dissertation writing.

http://society6.com/KirstenMcNee


xx

F is for Fennec Fox

I've finally found an excuse to draw a Fennec Fox!

Howling at the moon....

Yet more letters, so close to completely finishing the alphabet and then some, as I am having to double up some letters for certain names.

Oh Deer pillowfight competition

For part of Ohh Deer's pillowfight competition all entries will be available to buy over the next couple of weeks.

They're on sale here and here

Ohh deer is a pretty awesome company read about them here.

D is for Dachsund!

Finished some more letters. I reaaaaally want a Dachsund.

 Too Cute!

Also, here's an armadillo. Remember that Dime advert with Harry Enfield in?

If you go down to the woods today....

Another birthday present for another friend. I was requested to draw some of my woodland animals having a tea party in the woods. I'm still having difficulties drawing foxes though

The Flamiraffe

I've drawn this strange animal for a friends birthday as her favourite animals are flamingoes and giraffes. I like the name, sounds like something from a Dr Seuss book!

Helen

decided to mock up a girls name, so here is HELEN x

Uniqlo t shirt competition.

I entered the Uniqlos t shirt competition where you had to design a t shirt for eiher David Bowie, Kiss, Madonna, AC/DC or the Who. I chose to design one for Kiss and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Henry

Yet another Illustrated name, all boys so far! I'm slowly building up the alphabet though and will hopefully have posters of the alphabet to sell soon x

George

Another illustrated child's name, this time it's red as George is a massive arsenal fan. I'm starting to do all the letters of the alphabet, in blue and pink and look into getting them printed up on vinyl etc. Reckon they could be a nice addition to any nursery.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

So I've been making a few changes to my most recent projects. The business cards are finished, still got quite a bit of work to do on the flyer as it's not quite what's wanted.

Nellie's Childcare

Currently working on some business cards for my sister, who's starting her own nannying company.  Here's the baby elephant that's going to be on her business cards.

bit of graphic design

recently I've been doing a bit of graphic design work for The Camden Head pub. Nothing major, but it's kept me busy! Go to draw a chicken with a monocle.

Stanley

It was my nephew's 1st birthday last week so I thought I'd draw him something special to keep and I decided to illustrate his name with animals and frame it for him. Something new I learnt? Not very many animals names start with an 'N'! I'm now considering doing the whole alphabet and selling prints, or maybe even vinyl stickers of baby names.

this is the scanned image, for some reason my scanner cut off the y though and I didn't realise until it was framed. Doh.

here's a photoshoppped photograph. Not the best of qualities, but you get a better idea of the image.

the framed and finished piece.

Fiddling about.

 

I'm giving everything a complete overhaul (well, kind of!). I've decided that I need to get myself going, get more freelance work, get my stuff out in to the world, so am going to try a bit of self promotion! And that requires logos i believe? It at least requires some kind of branding/promotional bits and bobs.

Reckon I'll change the blog header a bit too.

Love and Marriage, they go together like a horse and carriage

So, I notice that my most viewed post on this blog was for a design I made for some wedding invites, so I though I'd post the final thing.

I kept them simple and elegant, slightly art nouveau inspired. I have to say, the scans don't really do the paper much justice. The white paper was actually a really lovely pearlescent ivory colour.
I'm open to commissions if anyone's interested and would like to get in touch with me regarding them xx

Behance

You can now find me on Behance here!

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more from my sketch book

just two little sketches that i used in the grimm cover. One's the frog prince and the other is the poison apple from snow white.

a medieval bestiary

I posted my sketch of the Wolpertinger earlier and have now done a few more. I'm going on to make them in to linocuts, a technique similar to the woodcutting these original bestiaries would have used. First time with a new techniques, so it's pretty exciting learning new things!

Enfield

Leucrota

Peryton

Catoblepas

Whilst researching these animals, I found out that a lot of them are actually used in some online games? My versions are a lot more sad sap than the ones in the games though! especially my leucrota... The original animals from the medieval bestiaries can be found here.

New Screenprints

So here's some better images of the screen prints currently being exhibited at the Silent Auction at the Abbey Tavern.

I changed my image from the penguin book design cover because I thought it'd make a good print and am considering making a series of these kind of images based on various stories

Silent Auction

My work is going to be exhibited in the upcoming silent auction taking place at the Abbey Tavern in Kentish Town this week. I've out in 4 original screen prints and one original drawing (sorry about the bad photo quality! I had to photograph them in my dim basement flat once framed!)