New Designs

Red Apple Design

Grey Floral Floor Cushion

Pink Floral Design

Kiwi Pattern Design Products

Last week I had quite a busy one so I decided to create some designs rather than illustration pieces. I find patterns are a lot quicker to produce. I really like creating pattern designs too because when I upload them to Redbubble or Society 6 I can see how they would really look as a finished product in the home. I would love to be able to get designs like these manufactured someday and have them sold in shops, although I'm not sure how to go about that to be honest. Maybe I'll dedicate some time in the future to conduct some more research on that too. For now though you can find my Redbubble account HERE and my Society 6 account HERE.

Tiger Piece

This was a piece from last week which I made to play around with fur and overlaying patterns as well as creating water effects. I love all cats and I thought a majestic tiger would be a great piece to study and I am considering doing a series of different wild cats sometime too as I think they would make lovely prints or greetings cards. With quite a tough week ahead of me I'm hoping I can still fit in a little time for art.

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day everybody!

ThrowbackThursday

For this week's 'Throwback Thursday' I wanted to share this digital portrait of a cute British shorthair cat.

National Bat Appreciation Day

So recently I saw a show called Hugh's Wild West, and they were able to listen to bats communicating together, me and my Mum came up with this silly little idea of bats knitting and nattering to each other!

Lemons For Days

This is just another piece i made last week which I wanted to share, in the UK last week (at least here in the midlands) there was barely any sun, so I made this to cheer my self up a little.

National Orchid Day

Today is National Orchid Day, I really love the variety of orchids you can get and I'd love to have one to add to my plant collection, although I'm terrified that I'd end up killing one in my dark bedroom, maybe one day I'll have a place with a conservatory and fill it with plants!

artvsartist

I've finally done a #artvsartist!

National Pet Day

Seeing as today is National Pet's day I created little something, I wanted to play around a little with textures and backgrounds again I see a lot of illustrations where people draw animals but leave them on a plain white background, and I don't want to do that because there's a lot you can play around with using backgrounds and I think for prints and cards it adds to the effect.

Farm Animals

Today is National Farm Animals day so I wanted to create a piece on new born animals, to be honest this was my first time doing a piglet or lamb so i definitely need some more practice on making tea look a little more alive! but I really like the colours of pink and pastel green which I might take on board for other pieces.

Murder on The Orient Express

Poirot’s most harrowing case the Murder on the Orient Express, for this piece I went with the David Suchet version (like the Death on the Nile), although I haven’t seen the Branagh version I really loved how this one was shot and the tension between him and the suspects especially that final scene! 

National Zoo Lovers Day

Today is national Zoo Lovers Day, I made this quick piece to celebrate those zoos who do wonderful conservation work in preventing some of our rarest species from becoming extinct. i've always loved going to zoos especially when I was little, some of my favourite places were, Chester zoo and Twycross Zoo.

National Handmade Day

Today is National Handmade Day' so I thought I'd have a go at a little something I think some parts worked better than others but adding collage is always fun to explore. I really like trying different crafts out, I always used to make cards for my family even when I was little, and although I have attempted to learn to knit a few times crotchet is still a craft that alludes me.

Throwback Thursday Goldfish

                          

For this week's 'Throwback Thursday' I wanted to share this piece of an orange goldfish, made using digital drawing (mainly the pen and brush tool in photoshop) then as a final touch I added some photographs with effects to add textures and details.

Find A Rainbow

Today is National 'Find a Rainbow Day' I really like the idea of celebrating the little things in nature which can make you smile. I'm trying to do that more lately and hopefully can get outside a bit more when the weather improves.

National Ferret Day

In celebration of national ferret day here is a little piece I made from an ink sketch which I coloured digitally then added some textures with photoshop effects over the top. 

Badgers Amongst the Bluebells

This is a piece from last week which I've been wanting to do for a while as I want to start looking at placing animals within landscapes. I also wanted to create more detailed pieces too. I always love creating pieces with nature and wildlife as it really helps me relax a little. This piece was made from sketches, digital painting and collage effects in photoshop.