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.
A thought occurred to me yesterday while watching PaperTigress do a lovely Gouache landscape.
Has it been more than 2 1/2 years already Gouache????, Gosh-that has been some fun painting times…
While I am still peering from below at where I would like my illustration to be at, it’s years like this I think it’s important to check in with yourself and acknowledge and appreciate when you’re skills have grown, and that I have actually learnt a couple of things about Gouache…
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
I’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 MoreWith the increase of all that lovely black ink around this month (Inktober) I thought I would remind you to not forget about your colours too, make sure you include several of the colours from this palette a day- 5 vegetable servings and 2 of fruit, if you don't, make sure you paint with them :)
Read MoreThe idea for this image was to do a watercolour style illustration of some Yoga poses.
I started with a few sketches of familiar poses, found my favourites which I felt were stronger, I then added some watercolour, and played with colour until the imagery felt
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