Sketchbook: silly stuff

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More stuff from a small sketchbook. Some of it's from the Natural History Museum, other stuff, like the inky stuff was just doodling for fun creating dragony, zombie-ish, foxy stuff.

Listening to Lykke Li, particularly this song: I follow Rivers. A very haunting song that seems to creep into the folds of my brain, but strangley elating. The video is beautifully simple.

Black Beauty

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I did this sample for someone. It's an illustration of the beautiful horse from the above mentioned title and a 10 year old boy character. It was difficult doing the boy, I don't think he looks 10! I'm gonna have to read it properly,  I've sort of just skimmed it. I've heard It was a very insightful piece of work when it was written, and still is very meaningful. The story is written by Anna Sewell.

Sketchbook: Billie Holiday

Sleepy,

just did this drawing, shouldn't be though. Need to finish work!!

Sketchbook: Doodles and Ridiculous Stuff

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I've been doodling and also playing around with ink. These are scans of some of the pages from my current A5 sketchbook.

Animal Studies

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Back to sketching animals again, Its been quite hectic so the drawing was quite therapeutic for me. The deer belongs at the Natural History Museum. The fangs make me smile, It's only a small teeny-tiny deer.

I'm currently doing the roughs for Snow White. I'm a little worried because I'm kind of on time...Makes me feel all nervous. Typical me; I get stuff done on time and feel nervous or get stuff done in the nick of time and feel all vomity haha.

Someone from work gave me an art shop voucher for Christmas and I saved it for a rainy day. Felt all warm and fuzzy when I spent it on essential supplies (Thank you Maria!). Bought an A5 sketchbook because I tend to leave huge blank spaces when I'm drawing and its come to good use as I've been doodling. I'll scan them in some time, oh and the Snow White Roughs. I really should be finishing those roughs ach.

Featured on SAAHUB

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just a screen dump of my Goldilocks stuff featured on SAAHUB. here's the link: http://saahub.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/fairy-tales/

he-he

Happy Birthday Celine the Choo

Happy birthday dude, wish you the bestest birthday!

xxx

Red Deer Sitting

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Just did a study of a Red Deer using ink and developed it on Photoshop. The illustation initially had the deer as an ink drawing with the cut-out style background but decided to just go ahead with the whole lot as cut-out. Feeling ill but enjoying watching Black Books.

:)

More Goldilocks stuff

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A spread, and a page from Goldilocks. I'm working on a sample illustration of Snow White now - I'll put that up some time.

Watched Poison Ivy at Jen's yesterday whilst stuffing dried figs and popcorn into my mouth. The figs were nice but the film was...hmm okayish, it was very strange. One of the main characters looked like Otto from The Simpsons as Hat pointed out!!

'If I Was You...'

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I took part in the, 'If I Was You' project - Check out the site here.

Devised by Sandra Dieckmann, the project entails producing an illustration based on the previous weeks illustrator.

Goldilocks Final Artwork

It's been a while!

I thought I'd post some final artwork on Goldilocks. These are some of my favourite ones. I can't wait to see it in printed form of course! I'm just glad it's all finished... phew.

Oh, and you Must read, (or at least have a look at) the, Nausicaa: of the Valley of the Wind series, story and art by Hayao Miyazaki - it's such a great graphic novel. It's clearly an extension on the film but holds its own with tremendous originality. I borrowed the sereis from the library and am reading the last in the series. Some of the panels are just so beautiful in compositoin, I feel like cutting them out and pasting them onto my wall where I can stare at them and learn something. May be I'll buy them all one day. I've already got number 5 for 80p!! from a comic store at Harrow. It was just sitting there on it's own in a box of rejects with a bright yellow 'reduced price' label. Crazy Crazy.

PS:

I may be doing some artwork on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs *fingers Crossed*

Goldilocks Roughs

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I've been meaning to put these up for ages actually. I'm waiting for feedback now. These are some of my favourites among the roughs I produced. I feel the text spaces really made me think about how I composed the drawings. I used photographs of my niece for reference, it makes all the difference. :)