One down...

 

 



Well here is one collage finished. I still need to scan it into Photoshop and have a play around with the background and text, but I'll do that when all 5 collages are finished.
 I'm making the most of having a free Saturday-I've got my ipod on the go (I can't work in silence!) and everything spread out across my 'studio' (cough...bedroom). I'm aiming to finish another 2 collages today and the last 2 by tomorrow afternoon.

It's that time of year...

OK, so it's that time of year again...well, almost...Christmas time! I know it seems a little early, but Greeting card companies have been designing and making their Christmas cards, wrapping paper etc from probably the beginning of the year, so in fact, I'm a little late!
I made Christmas cards last year and sold them at a vintage market in Cardiff town centre. It was a good experience, however the market was upstairs in a local bar and wasn't very well advertised, so unfortunately not many people knew about it. I've decided to go for a different approach this time, and see if local businesses will buy packs to sell on. I'm hoping this means that more people will see my designs...I can only try anyway.
So here I am, using my only free time after work, to try and get atleast 5 designs done by the end of the week. As you can see, I'm not lucky enough to have my own studio (yet...one day!) so have resorted to spreading out across my bedroom floor as usual...gosh it's a mess!

 

 

Here's a really rough sketch of an idea so far...

 

 

...and here it is in process!

 





A Little Story...

I always love getting new projects or new ideas for illustrations, so when my friend Emma told me about this children's book she'd written, I jumped at the chance to do some designs for her! The book is really cute and tells the story of a little girl called Sophie-May trying to discover why her toys and the animals won't answer her when she talks to them.
 So far I've only done 4 REALLY rough sketches of what Sophie-May could look like, but need to have Emma's input as to what she imagined her main character to look like (just imagine them painted and collaged like my previous post!) This is such an exciting new project, and I can't wait to get started on it properly :)

Work in progress...

Hello! So here are a few pieces I've been working on, none are finished yet, but just wanted to have a play around. The one is a mix of my old style, paint, pencil and fine liner, mixed with some collage. With the other two, I wanted to try something different from what I have done before, so they are purely collage. I collect a LOT of patterned paper, so thought I should make use of it. Some of the patterns are so pretty, they seemed a waste just sat in my drawer. I actually really liked creating the collage ones and think I will be using this style more often when creating my little characters :)

A productive day off...

Today is my day off, so I feel I should do something productive with it! And seems we have had a non-existent Summer at the moment, going outside doesn't seem that appealing...so I've got my sketchbook, pencils, pens, scissors and patterned papers at the ready instead!

Greetings Cards and Gift Wrap

Christmas Cards

These are designs I came up with for Christmas cards last year. I sold these cards at a local vintage market a few weeks before Christmas. I later went on to sell a bulk of them to my local John Lewis in Cardiff, for them to give as a thank you to adjoining business' with the company for the year.