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