Saturday 14 May 2011

Ok thats it, this is the last picture! Chelsea gardens are massive and full of massive old glass houses filled up with flowers and tropical plants. I wanted the flowers in my poster to resemble fireworks exploding out of the ground.
Ok well i was at it i thought i'd upload this again! I did some fiddling and managed to lighten up a bit and i think it looks much better now.
I did this picture while waiting for the printer to print out my work - thats how long it took! It took about 1 hour to print each picture and there were a lot of pictures!
This is a cover i've been working on for a while and its finally finished!! there's nothing like a crazily stressful deadline to make you get things done! I originally started working on this for the Penguin Design Award whose deadline was in the middle of the easter holidays. Its a pretty hard book to illustrate as every idea i had for it seemed to have already been done by LOTS of other people but i'm pretty pleased with how it came out. 


The last couple of weeks have been horribly stressful trying to get everything ready for New york but its all finally done! I'm in the midst of packing up my stuff to take with me and i'll quickly upload all my most recent work!

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Finished my next picture! I really enjoyed drawing the animals, it made such a change from drawing people all the time! Also hand rendered text is a new thing for me but was really fun to try:) Now off for a celebratory cup of tea and a brownie.

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Also just an added note about that picture: thats not actually how it looks on photoshop! blogspot has done something weird and made it all dark and gloomy when infact its really bright.. Just imagine that the greens are grass greens rather than sludge colour and thats about right.
This is the last Journey to the Riversea picture. I don't think its quite finished yet. I was spending ages fiddling around with the colour and it wasn't making much of a difference so now I'm just going to leave it for a bit and get on with something else!

Friday 6 May 2011


These are internal images for a nice book called "Journey to the Riversea" about a girl who goes and lives in the rainforest. They still need some work and i am planning a third one to go with them plus a cover. Hopefully i'll finish them over the weekend!

Thursday 5 May 2011

Every year Falmouth publishes a book full of graduates work which is called the Quotes book. This is my picture which illustrates "Plenty more fish in the sea"! This took me forever so i feel quite attatched to it, also it marks the moment that i finally understood photoshop!  

... and here's the rest!

The first two pictures for my Hide and Seek childrens book.

I'm back!

Hello its been ages! i have proved myself to be a completely useless blogger over the last few months but, as of today, i'm turning over a new leaf! Me and my classmates are headed off to NewYork next week with our portfolios so i'm going to be finishing off a lot of pictures and i'll upload them as i go...