Girls

Girls

Lately I have noticed my graphics tablet and Adobe Illustrator have been bonding quite a bit! This is a series of illustrations that is called 'Girls' and plays with form, shape and the female appearance.

Digital Illustration

Currently, I am teaching myself Illustrator. I am working on a character called Sharona Moon for one of my comic stories. All I am using is the Pen tool and Brush tool and I so excited already!! I love flat bold colours anyway. I could take these further and screen print them too...hmmmmm.

That's what I am working on at the moment during that month of my summer holiday!

Girl at Cafe

Girl at Cafe

Well, hello there blog. It's been a while. The summer is in rotation and here is a drawing simple inspired by my friend's hair.

What a beautiful drawing this is!

Enchantrum of a Place

I started it a couple of weeks ago, sat in the boot of my grandparents car (as all my horrible sisters and one of their boyfriends occupied the back seats). We drove through Bear Cross and I saw this quaint house tucked behind an archway of foliage. Instantly I knew it had to be drawn! I used good ol' Crayola crayons too.

Another drawing from the series of sketches in my A5 sketchbook that has just been completed! I have just moved to London into university halls of residence two days ago, and have no scanner. But! No fear as there are these funky tables in the common room that I have used to take aphotograph.

In the Summer Where We Spent Those Many Happy of Days

More info to come! Or is there...

Lonely

My Illustration 'Lonely' A6 Black Fine Liner Pen

Woop Woop! My first submission to Illustration Friday (IF) for the topic this week 'Lonely'. A few weeks back I discovered the site and last week I did make a drawing (a really cool one too) but was too late. So, this week I was like 'I'm gonna do this!'

I chose pen, partly because I haven't used that material in a while and I was inspired by other illustrations I'd seen.    

I decided on communicating loneliness through using two people and their relationship by using the space on the page. I decided on a girl and boy, placed on opposite pages (in my A6 sketchbook I often use when out-and-about, it was handy) separated by a Cherry Blossom tree and staring into the background of empty space. The tree growing with the gutter of the page suggests the two figures are connected but separated at the same time. Romantic and Poetic. A silent image that slows down time within the picture. Do the couple know one another?  Why are they lonely? Is it their past that connects them, or their future?

If I did not have 7 minutes till the deadline I would have scanned in and finished the illustration off in Photoshop. This time I had to make do with taking a photo and using Paint!! (Hehe, Good Ol' Paint.)

Lizzie Heath

A Really Sweet Digi Print

Digital Illustration using Brush and Bamboo

Drawing in sketchbook

My Cousin visited and I saw she was wearing the most beautifully cute top I ever did saw. The block pastel colours and shaped fruit design, and fabric used all were heaven to my eyes. When I asked her where she bought I top from, she told me the 'Strawberry' shop in America. One day I shall go to America!!

So instead I made a drawing of her top and used my Bamboo tablet (for the first time!) to create a digital pattern through Photoshop. I would have used the pen tool but sadly I only have Photoshop Elements, which I can't seem to locate it on. Thus, leading me to using the bamboo.

'Idyllic View Over Farmland and Town of Beautswano'

'Idyllic View Over Farmland and Town of Beautswanoa'; Soft pastel; 28.1cm x 20.4cm; 2012

I finished this little lassie today; my first artwork of the summer!

I bought some soft pastles at the start of summer and decided I would give them a go and created another artwork bringing to life a part of my enchanting Travel Lands magical world!

'...And Then she Looked Down Upon her Whimsical Wim-Bous Forever into the Eternal Surreal'

Mixed media on canvas 122cm x 156cm

Here she is!! Finally they have come back home with me.

The artwork above is one of mine which I produced for my Fine Art A-level (A2) course back in 2011.

Description:

'I began the process of working towards this canvas painting with the desire to combine my passion for both Illustration and Fine Art, and my interests into the imagination and surreal, and that which is beautiful and magical. On this canvas I painted these characters which I have created through my imagination, drawing inspiration from the natural world, bringing life and an emotive connection between them and me, and possible even to viewers. 

In the canvas are my Whimsial Wim-bou characters on the right, top: The elderly Whimsical Wim-Grandes, middle: baby Whimsical Wim-bou, and bottom: the parental Whimsical Wims, and on the left is my ethereal mermaid/bird/female creature who watches over them in their psychedelic world.

The Wim-bous were inspired by (fuschia plants) flowers and my ethereal Goddess by creating my own children's flip-book, morphing parts of birds, shells and a female figure together.' 

The Fictitious, the Imaginative, the Ethereal and the Dreamlike

Exhibition: orginal drawings and prints

Let’s begin with an end.

I have just completed my Foundation Diploma in Art and Design course and this is a photograph of my work on exhibit.

The Final Project of mine explored other worlds and fictitious places. I love escaping into stories and artworks that explore fantastical worlds and thematics. I have illustrated a world that emanates an ethereal and dreamlike atmospheric quality. It was great. I got to draw castles, quaint shops, magical streets, enchanted forests and magnificent mountains.


Absolutely brilliant year.