Oooh look, a shop!

I've just updated my Folksy and Etsy shops, where you can now buy my animal name prints. .

Folksy: http://folksy.com/shops/kikimcnee

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/KikiIllustrations


I will get some framed examples up soon.

sketch book work

I'm quite busy at the moment working on a lot of different projects and don't have anything new to post at the moment, so I thought I'd just pput up a few pages from my sketch book. xoxo

U is for...

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

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

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.

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?

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

The Wolpertinger

My first sketch for the Wolpertinger!

sketchbooking

Here's a couple of pages from my current sketchbook. I'm working on a small printing project, where I'm creating my own Bestiary, like the ones found in Medieval times, but a bit more fun and experimental.
Anyway, to create these strange and bizarre creatures that populated the Medieval Bestiaries and also Jorge Luis Borges' Book of Legendary Creatures, I figured I should get to grips with drawing the original real life animals that were the inspiration.







Read more about Bestiaries here and here.

Only If For a Night

This is my entry for Florence + the Machine's Secret 7" song Only If For a Night.

From the website:

"Secret 7" is an exciting project combining music and art in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Seven bands and recording artists (Florence + The Machine, The Cure, DJ Shadow, Ben Howard, CSS, Noah and The Whale and Bombay Bicycle Club) are inviting creatives to design the artwork for a seven inch vinyl sleeve inspired by one of their songs. The project will culminate in 700 unique vinyl sleeves displayed in Idea Generation Gallery in London in the week leading up to Record Store Day 2012. On that day, each of the vinyls at the gallery will be available to purchase with all of the profits going to Teenage Cancer Trust."

Vote for me HERE

The quartet of deliverance rides...

Here is my newest illustration for the Apocalypse issue of Electric Sheep Magazine.

And also, here's some Metallica...

it's a nice day for a white wedding

Here's the first illustration or a set of wedding invites/ stationary i'm currently designing. I've taken inspiration from Beardsley and art nouveau x


Update: For the finished invitations, please see this post here.