My journey of 10,000 illustration hours began in photography, pixels were morphed into digital art, expanded via pigments in traditional arts and graphic design to build and hone the skills required for my imagery creation and layout design.
This post has been a long time coming, (apologies) I’ve been wearing my designer hat more than my illustration pen, but I am excited to say that my second children’s picture book ‘Schroom: begins’ will be released in Hardcover on the 29th November by NoooBooks, YAY
The ‘Schroom’ picture book series is about Schroom, a..
Read MoreThese patient little fairies have been waiting in my sketchbook for around 3 months until I could do more illustrator studies to add to as illustrator diary posts.
Read MoreHere are the latest spreads from my Illustrator diary, these are two of my favourite author-illustrators.
I had a lot of fun studying Beatrix Potters illustration style, her clever use of colour and fun delicate drawings are enchanting, and was definitely my favourite in this series so far.
Of course, Dr Seuss was
Read MoreToday is the day I start to share my illustrator diary.
It’s no secret, that to become skilled in art many artists recommend to copy other artists work,
FOR LEARNING PURPOSES only of course. This is where you try to work out ‘how did they do that’ and then you
My traditional illustration tools,
Some people would say I am a little traditional- especially with my love of traditional Art media, and holding a good old fashioned Book or shiny magazine in your hands and turning the pages.
However, I do also love the Digital world- carrying a treasure trove in a pocket- is amazing.
But when it comes to
Soon to be released “Human Energy”, A Sumi-e Art story of energy and humans’ being.
Spontaneous ink paintings explore moods such as love, life and dance, as an art picture book.
Read MoreI’m excited to announce I have a few designs available on a new product - Yoga Mats!!!!, they are 60cm x 178cm) (24 x 70 inch.)
The designs so far include a watercolour yoga pose designs on blue, teal and black. These are now available with matching tote bags. Click on image for details of each.
Read MoreOne of the hardest things for me is self-promotion, but it is a vital ingredient not only for Artists but for success in many fields. I am much happier to just create and do what I do and somehow magically it will all work out if I do... (--pfft, yeah right~)
I am pleased that my submission to the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Style File was
Read MoreNow that spring has well and truly sprung, I have re-hatched my ink harvest.
My original "Harvest" word-art was done a few years ago when I had just fallen in love with ink. It was rushed for a project and I didn't spend the time on it that I would have liked to.
Lately, I had been feeling like I was at an impasse with drawing, painting and digital, and I realised that I
Read MoreThis image was a failure, the goal was to create an ink illustration for my portfolio. While composing the elements I had the idea to add one of my old incomplete oil paintings to the background. I loved the effect and the mood it created, but
Read MoreFor this study of Illustration styles, I used traditional art techniques to make Portrait Imagery of 1950's Hollywood Legends, reference material was from the amazing and inspiring Photographs of Athol Shmith- from the book shown.
Using traditional ink techniques for Sir Laurence Olivier, with a
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