illustration friday - wild

Playing around with my new drawing tablet and pen and ink a bit, tons more I could do here but a person has design work to do too. I do so love a tiger and a jungle. And a Henri Rosseau painting, distantly remembered too of course comes into play.

happy easter!

Sometimes as a child, I used to paint watercolour directly onto blown out eggs and I remember being very taken with the results indeed. Not sure how my mum felt about the dwindling egg supply...

This time, I figured watercolour on paper would work just fine too and we wouldn't have to eat scrambled eggs for days. Easter decorations are not a major thing in our house anyway - chocolate eggs and a vase of daffodils and we're pretty much good to go.

Have a lovely weekend, and may spring and the sun hurry along in these parts. We're ready for you, you know. 

Illustration Friday - snow

Mice should enjoy Christmas too you know.

Finding my way around Photoshop, still early days but I love how it makes new ways of working possible. And fast.

shy

Here's one that got away before we left for South Africa. Thought I'd post it anyway,  and it'd be a pity to let that go to waste as a lost little jpeg icon on my desktop. So, in celebration of experiments and tentative sketches, here she is. Belatedly for Illustration Friday 'shy'.

illustration friday - carry

One for my children's book illustration portfolio, which I've been working on this week. I've been out drawing in the play area near home, so I had plenty of sketchbook material to turn into something fun. 

Clearly, drawing some dogs while I was at it would be helpful too, eeeek. Does anyone else find it tricky to integrate animals in the same style as people? 

Guess it's really a question of more practice, like all drawing wobbles.

Illustration Friday - faded

 

Not sure about this one, it was pretty last minute and late night, but it was fun to make it happen anyway. Lovely to look through a pile of old World of Interiors magazines for references.

Illustration Friday - sight

I had in mind a line from The Famished Road by Ben Okri, which has lived in my notebook for years. In this image, the line has a completely new context.

Constellations were visible in the sky, each star a different colour, luminous and pulsing.

The waves are inspired by an illustration by Dorry Spikes, one of my favourite illustrators.

 

illustration friday - skinny

illustration friday - fast

sleeping hare

On new paper, Fabriano Rosaspina, which I found a bit tricky to photograph and upload since it is tinted. But I'm happy with the way it turned out overall. Inspired by Giselle Potter's illustrations for 'The Big Box'.

illustration friday: frozen

illustration friday: flying

My first post for Illustration Friday. It only took a year...yay!