Back to A-Level...

As I was looking through the illustration's in the Big Book of Contemporary Illustration, I saw a couple of illustrations of Venice and Venetian architecture. These took me back to my A-Level work, where I chose to study Venetian masks and architecture. Just thought I would do a bit of reminiscing...

Stephen Wiltshire MBE
"Venice, Italy" 2008, Pen/Ink

Alicia Hough
"Venetian Architecture" 2004, Pencil/Watercolour

This is one of my painting's from my A-Level course.

Just a bit of light reading...

So, before Christmas, I ordered several books off Amazon, and I just thought that I would share them with you. One of the books was the Big Book of Contemporary Illustration by Martin Dawber, the link for Amazon is below.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Contemporary-Illustration-Martin-Dawber/dp/1906388318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295627089&sr=8-1
I love just looking through these books and looking for inspiration. Some illustration's that caught my eye include:
Nadir Kianersi
"Yousef House" 2000, Pen/Ink

Stephen Wiltshire MBE

"Big Ben On A Rainy Evening" 2008, Pen/Ink/Oil pastel

Vicky Woodgate
"New York", "Eiffel Tower", "Sevilla", "Sydney Opera House" Adobe Illustrator

Joanna Barnum
"Gorilla: Bronx Zoo, NY" 2007, Watercolour/Pen/Ink/Graphite

Suzanne Gyseman
"Moonflowers" 2008, Pen/Ink

Well, hello 2011!

Sorry, it has been so long since I last blogged. What with the hectic-ness of Christmas and New Year, and the start of uni again, I just haven't found time. Well, I hope you all had a beautiful Christmas and hope 2011 has started off with a bang for you. xx

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Sketches and Doodles by Edwin Rhemrev

So, in the last post, I was saying that I needed to add character to my drawings. Anyway, I found a GREAT blog about an illustrator who is AMAZING at adding personality and character to his drawings.
Find his blog here:
http://rhemdoodles.blogspot.com/

These are thumbnails he created for re-designing the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz

Victoria Ball

This illustrator's work is just gorgeous! I love the way she puts character into her characters. This is something that I need to start considering, as some of my drawings can look a bit stiff and boring. Victoria Ball is a good example of how to do this, so I find her work very interesting.

Her website is:
http://www.victoria-ball.co.uk/index.html

And the agency which represent her is:
http://www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/home_large.asp?artist_id=3343

Illustrator funness!

So, lately I have got into using Adobe Illustrator. Now I have never used this before, and just started playing about on it, but since we were given the Monster Munch brief at uni, I have really started to rather enjoy playing around on it, and the quality of the finished product. These are some of the final packet designs that I designed for the Monster Munch brief:

 Anyway, this is something that I am hoping to expand on, using Illustrator in my work. I came across this illustrator called John Paul Early. Most of his work is done on Illustrator, and he really gets across the 'funness' of a character and his their surroundings.

Check his work out at:

http://www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/home_large.asp?artist_id=39&tc=1292526562673