Dailies

I was grateful to be asked to do a photographed dairy of a day in the life of me for the fantastic Design For Mankind. I did this a while back, but with Erins busy life the article was blogged yesterday. Read the whole article here. And check out the rest of her blog it is packed with inspirational goodies.

Rrrrrraahhhh

Thats right its a lion! no more to be said... good night!

Nicola O'Byrne

Nicky has a great range of work, most of which can be seen on her website. My particular favourite is this series of images from a picture book about fishing, as I'm drawn to the limited palette.
One of nicky's favourite places to draw are in coffee shops and she has collated a collection of lovely observational drawings in a handmade book which will be exhibited at the Edinburgh College of Art from this Thursday to the 21st of June.

Vangeli

We've had buildings and birds, so next comes the work of Vangeli Moschopoulos which can be viewed here on the illustration 2010 website. Vangeli's work brings us a great combination of screenprinting and woodcut print methods. Vangeli has really developed his style this year and his method of working is extremely important to him. There is great concept in his work and he has developed a strong eye for composition, as his love for graphic deign and poster design has grown.
These are the 3 posters exhibited at the show and follow the theme of resistance.

Menna Jenkins

The second of my fantastic illustrative peers is the wonderful Menna Jenkins. Other than having a passion for gouache paints and mechanical pencils, her final major project named Faded Glory has really illustrated that she is rather fond of drawing buildings to. See more of her work here
This photograph shows her exhibition space, with paintings models and books Menna really demonstrates a clear direction for her work. A big well done!!

Sophie Warden

The beginning of the degree show approaching (Thursday 9th of June) to be exact, I have decided to show you a selection a the great work which will be featured. Firstly the lovely Sophie Warden.
Sophie's way of capturing detail through her drawing, make birds a perfect subject. She is great at recreating the character and behavior of the species. Her birds are my favourite around town.
If you would like to see more of sophie's beautiful drawings, prints and sketches just have a look on her website. Just to make a point Sophie doesn't just draw birds, her drawings of people are amazing to.

Chickens Can See In The Dark

A finished this a while back, but here is my finished book, which I am delighted to d=say was high commended by macmillan, and my chicken model of my main character- Chuck.

Leo

I've recently been pretty rubbish at the whole blogging thing, but I'm getting back on it and here is a little something I've just done on a series of horoscope illustrations. Being a leo myself here is my leo illustration.

Election

Inspired by the election, I did an image/ editorial to reflect that so many voters where still so unsure about who to vote for even when they were queuing at the polling stations.

Reading Your Dog

Editorial about about how to read your dogs signs of behaviour, and not treating them the same as humans. This dogs impression is " knife and fork- Bolognese!!- Are you kidding!" I kind of prefer the original drawing, but it needed some colour.

I wish I could do this

With all the boring stuff left to do before my hand in, like statements and cv's, I wish I had the ability to do it all while I was a sleep, and i would wake up with it all done. So i could spend the day drawing nice things. This is a great little piece of work by Jean Julian, and it sums up how I feel right now.

Lost treasures

In the process of going through all my drawings/ photos etc in preparation for my hand in, I found these two amazing photos of two lovely people of which i seem to have tampered slightly, but I kind of like them.

Art exchange

I recently took part in an art exchange and here are some goodies I've got so far. 2 great prints from the Cloud Commission based in Newcastle. A mini zine and some lovely drawings by Sanna Dyker A beautiful handmade brooch by Kathleen at Murgatroyd and Bean and ring by Beth Dawson. Thanks Guys.

Shop Now set up!

I now have a shop!!!, it's rather modest right now and needs a bit of a redesign but it's a shop none the less. So don't hesitate to have a browse around the vast variety I have to offer, Or give me suggestion of what I should put up. just click here

forest

My desk looks like a forest at the moment, full of little trees which links to one of my children's books at the moment. My love for trees is growing.

Tree time

Like a family tree, all the branches are 'Linked'.

Pattern Design

This is a fabric sample of chicken feathers I designed and printed a few weeks back now, for costume designer Lizzie Povey. Next week proper print will start and will be used as the feature neck piece for Fantastic Mr Fox, ready for the ECA fashion show in May.

Massive Carrot Feast

That's right, more chickens... Shocker! I do draw other things honestly, but it's rather turned into an obsession. That and carrots. Next post I promise no relation to either.

60 Minute Zine

working solidly on my childrens book is rather tiresome. So yesterday I set myself a challenge to create a zine from pencil to print in an hour, and here is the product of just that. More of this zine can be seen on my flickr. Hopefully I will make a small collection of these.

overload

I haven't posted anything in a while, feeling a bit like this picture; surrounded with work rather than carrots though. On a more positive note I am feeling busy, but happy. Getting well on with my children's book. This is the character for this book, he is rather a brave character. Here he has 'stolen' as many carrots as he can from the nearby carrot farm.