More of my work...

I adore working on paper, just pure and simple paper, whether it already has other sketches on etc. This image was one of about 10 that I produced one afternoon.
I love the fact that I hardly spent any time on it at all and yet the finished image is probably one of my favourites.
In the past, I spent far too much time on one image, afraid that the 'girls' were not pretty or beautiful enough. But with this 'speed' drawing and creating, I am not as precious with them than I have been.
The reason I like this one is the limited colour and the random materials that surround her.
Also, I like the way I have drawn it, with pen and ink. You get this lovely scratchy effect, like when people 200 years ago wrote.
This woman is not beautiful, she is missing her limbs... and the look on her face, she doesn't care!

My Work x

This year has been an exciting one really, as I have seen how my work has changed, for the better in my opinion. I am alot more comfortable with my style of working and feel confident with how it is moving on.
As is said in previous posts, I am a huge admirer of Tina Berning and Stina Persson, an with their help, I have become a lot more confident.
These 2 images were done by hand, no computer influence with them, but may in the future adapt them to make them look more professional. The bottom image was drawn from a picture in a catalogue. I just looked at the image and then interpreted what I saw with ink.
I love working with fluid lines, mainly with ink as one gets a beautiful and simplistic finish.

The image at the top is one of my favourites.
I spend time drawing everyday, whether if it's in front of the television, where I will keep on drawing until I produce something good, or if I sit at the table/desk and think about it, sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. I much prefer to sit in the middle of the floor, with all random papers, inks and even tea or coffee to use on the paper to get different effects.
I can often produce 10 drawings and sketches a day and yet only maybe 2 or 1 will be worth keeping.

This is all a part of learning and I am enjoying creating my own style and experimenting with other materials.

Stella Im Hultberg

I was just browsing on line, looking at some art by Egon Schiele, and this illustrator/artist court my eye.
I have never heard of her before, and just by looking at one of her images, like this one, reminded me a lot of my own work!
The drawing looks so free and I love the use of materials that are in it... the tea staining, the ink drips, very like my own work... Stella is someone I will be looking out for in the future.

7x7 image

This is the final image for the project 7x7.

Myself and Jane worked together and created this 'weird and wonderful' creation!

It is not how I usually work, but Jane and I have such a different way of working, that we thought that if we collaborated, it my work well or completely not work... luckily for us, our different styles of work go well together!

Vogue

Who I would love to work for would be the almighty 'Vogue!'

I was on their website the other day and saw some fashion illustrations on there. A couple featuring David Downton and Jason Brooks.

For years now it has been a 'dream' of mine to illustrate for them!

I have looked at alot more industries and illustrators for my PDP which are in a little black book instead of them being on the blog.

Green Eyed Over...

I came across Egon Schiele a few years ago and he has been, and still is, one of my favourite artists.

As I have said in previous posts, I adore Tina Berning's work, and I came about this piece the other day and it immediately reminded me of Schiele's work.

Maybe she is inspired by him?

There is evidence on both how the lines are so similar- thin, flowing and both in black which gives it a harsh but yet gentle outcome.

Berning has used more colour on hers than the original of Schiele's, but both are very limited to colour.

I would love for my work/ drawings to be as good as these, and that is why I am 'green' with envy!

Catwalk...

Alice Tait, as I have said in a previous post, is a rather new illustrator that I have come across. She has a number of styles to her name, (as have I), some include pen and ink and water colour. I was browsing through her website and came across this image.

Of course it grabbed my attention as it is fashion related. 

I love how when one uses water colours, you can get such a different outcome with them. You can make accidents when using them, for instance, letting the water colour drip, or one can miss out some things, i.e. the faces or details with in the body.

Even though there has been bits in the 3 figures which are missing, you still can get the overall image and still appreciate what they are trying to do...