A recent storyboard for my rather quiet blog – am very busy with work at the moment and when I’m not doing that I’m focussing on drawing practice. Will post something soon!
This is an educational toy with a little speaker that describes the picture/letter it’s pressed upon in a range of books.
Hello – here’s a little bag I made my mother last week, for her to keep her iPod in. The lovely blue fabric is from a piece of Liberty material I saw in the cut-offs basket in our local fabric shop. This is my first attempt at a bag – it’s fun working out how to do the pull-ties and the lining. She thought the ribbon/bead combination looked a bit like mistletoe..
This is a commission I did about 2 weeks ago for a friend. It’s of a venue in Jamaica called Unity House where another friend of hers was married; she thought she’d give the couple this as their wedding present. It’s drawn in ink and wash and at her request I gave it a torn edge.
It’s a whippet! I’m told that I’ve managed to create a creature that doesn’t look like any one member of the animal kingdom. I also think it has an air of the evil penguin in Wallace & Gromit about it. I don’t care; as my first attempt at anything more than a hamster in amigurumi, I am proud. Thanks to June Gilbank for the patterns.
Here’s an extract from a recent storyboard. The client was MyStyle and the product is a make-it-yourself jewellery kit. They’re the same people who make the Wild Science kit – it’s aimed at young teenage girls. In these frames the girls make necklaces etc. from the various different kits you can buy. You can see the complete boards here.
Here’s another commission from just before we went to Greece. These are the children of a friend’s brother; his wife asked me to draw their portraits for his birthday.
First we have the head of the pack, Eliot:
Here is beautiful Orla:
And this is the adorable Magnus:
A couple of sketchbook pages, the first one from the Blue Star ferry on the way from Athens to Paros..
..and here is the lovely tortoise who lived between our flat and the neighbour’s on the island.
Hello folks – I’m just back from a lovely 2 weeks in Greece. Here’s a project I’ve been working on this Spring. Some friends of mine from the wonderful art school I attended 5 years ago on the Greek island of Paros (the Aegean Center for The Fine Arts) returned there this May to be married. The bride, Maria-Elena, is Greek, so the ceremony was the real Greek deal. They commissioned me to make a map of the island and streetplan of the main town where we lived and studied (Parikia), with annotated illustrations of their favourite places. The groom, Brett, a great writer, provided the words.
The finished item was printed as a double-sided A3 leaflet, a copy of which went to every guest. Pictures and words were drawn out full-size in pen, painted with gouache and edited in Photoshop. Click on the images to see them closer…
Here’s an extract from a storyboard I did last month for the ‘Wild Science’ range of cosmetic products, aimed at young teenagers. The idea is that you create your own beauty treatments using a kit; in this ad the girls are making various concoctions and trying them out on each other.
Click the images to enlarge. Or you can see the complete storyboard here.
