I haven't stopped drawing...honest!

I haven't updated my blog in a while. This was partly due to being sick for what seemed like forever (but was really only about two weeks), and also because I've been gradually working on a couple of other projects. The first of these is a return to the book project I started with a group of friends from my MA Illustration course. There are only a few more things that we need to work on to have this completed, and are currently focusing on getting it all wrapped up. Below is my self-portrait for my artist's profile, showing me happily sitting in a cafe doodling...



I've also been getting to grips with my website again, and hope to have an update on that very soon. I've also been drawing some more birthday cards for people and will post those up here after the respective birthdays have passed (...don't want to spoil the surprise now, do I?!).

Hopefully, I'll have some more new posts very soon...

I Love London

It's been a while since my last blog post, and that's because I've been busy working on a series of images for a book project I'm working on with a group of people from my illustration course. The idea was for each of us to choose a different area of London and then produce a short narrative across two spreads. The images should feature animal characters.

For my submission, I decided to focus on the West End of London, specifically Charing Cross train station, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden market and Big Ben. My story follows the adventures of a small penguin visiting the city for the day...

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I came to London on the train, when I arrived it began to rain...


I hurried towards Trafalgar Square, the lion statue gave me a scare!


To Covent Garden next, I popped. Fortunately, the rain had stopped.


Before I left, I saw Big Ben. I cannot wait to come to London again!!


Finally, here is a spot illustration I created for the index page...


I've really enjoyed drawing the buildings in these images, and coming up with different animal characters to populate the scenes. It's also been fun adding little details like the animal-based advertisements on the buses...