The Bow and the Butterfly

I'm not terribly good at naming my work, huh? Oh well, here's the Third and final Illustration for Grace magazine. I cannot wait to see the finished magazine!

The coloured version is currently available as an A4 print. It will soon be up on either my Etsy or BigCartel store (I can't choose which one to go with!)

Wolf Alice

Here's the second illustration I've done for Grace Magazine. I'm pretty pleased with it and will hopefully be turning it into a screen print soon. I'm currently trying to decide on the setting up of an online shop, but it's available to buy as an A4 print for £16 at the moment.

Grace: Nature Girl

Here is the first of three illustrations I'm doing for Grace magazine. I'm pretty pleased with it, as I haven't drawn people in such a long time!
During my first MA tutorial, the tutor told me-in a very unsubtle way-that I was bad at drawing figures and faces. I know you should never take criticism to heart, but as I was already going through a lot at the time, I did, and since then I've found life drawing to be incredibly stressful. Because of this, I stopped drawing one of my favourite subjects (I know, dumb!), so I'm feeling pretty happy with this.

Don't let criticism bring you down people!

Fawn and Thistle

Here's the coloured version of my Logo drawing. I can't wait to make these into screen prints!

Work in progress

The seven ravens print is taking a long long time, but I'm slowly getting there.

Gender neutral

I've found my first stockists for my name prints, so they will soon be available to buy in an actual shop. It's very exciting!
The shop owner requested a gender neutral version of the animalphabet, so I've now got it in white with just a black outline. It's very minimalistic and - I think - quite effective.

I've had people requesting numbers, dinosaurs and fairy versions, so this may be my next project (along with many, many others!) 

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

Grimm

Penguin's book cover competition

Grimm's Fairytales


I wanted my cover for Grimm's fairytales to retain some of the traditional style book design I used to love when I was younger. The main image is a mish mash of various elements from Red riding hood, cinderella, snow white and rose red, the 6swans and rapunzel. Clened up and sanitized a bit as it's aimed at children. Grimm's fairytales are brutal!

One Flew over The cuckoo's nest
I wanted my cover for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest to be as clean and sterile as possible, similar to a mental hospital, so I just used black and white images and type.