Thursday 14 November 2013

In other news: This September I started an animation MA in London! It is really challenging, but I'm having a lot of fun learning how to make my characters move! If you are interested in seeing my early efforts have a look at my university blog: http://joannaboyle.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Here are some old doodles I found from a while ago! The deer is coloured digitally but the other two are inks and watercolour - I miss creating work by hand, it's probably time I rediscovered my painting skills!








Wednesday 13 November 2013

New work! Well, more work from the summer that I havn't had time to upload... Fairies! Submissions I made for a flower fairy book.




Hello everyone!

I've had a long break from posting, but am finally back with some very exciting news - I am going to be published! I have spent the summer completing my first self-authored children's picture book about a dancing cat:)) Published by Pavilion Children's, it will be released next spring and I couldn't be more excited! I can't really say much more about it at present, but will be able to go into more detail as the time approaches. In the meanwhile here is one of the MANY cats I drew over the time I was creating my book, isn't he cute? I will have a look through my sketchbook and dig out some more sketches for future cat-related posts!

Tuesday 14 May 2013


Its been a funny week. I've been waiting for some (exciting) things to come through and in the mean time have been watching a LOT of Frasier and working on some personal projects. This particular project is an A to Z of exotic animals, C for Canary is still a work in progress but I will post it up as soon as i'm done!

Friday 15 March 2013

After a lot of procrastinating and getting distracted by other projects, I have finally done it. I've finished my website! Please take a look! http://www.joannaboyle.co.uk/
Here is a sneak peak at some new spreads for a book I've been working on since I graduated. My Dancing Cat book! It has been given a complete makeover and will now be visiting both Bologna and the London Book Fair! I'm very excited:)

Monday 4 March 2013

Hello everyone! I know its been a little while since I last updated but I've been running around sorting out life stuff like moving house and changing cities! But now that is all done I am back to blogging and will be putting up some nice new work very soon.

In the mean time my flower cards are now stocked by Magma Books http://www.magmabooks.com/content/bookshop/bookshop.asp so if you are stuck for ideas of a nice card to buy your mum for mothers day, pop by their beautiful shop either in Covent Garden or Manchester!

Monday 28 January 2013





Here we are, after hours of folding and packaging, my new cards! Aren't they shiny! Now to take them around lots of different shops :)