Plain Paper Sketches

Just so this blog starts living up to it's name, I'm posting some sketches done over the last few months- trying to get my hand less rusty on the drawing front. It's a mixed bag- most are sketches copied from magazines, but there are a few from my spate of drawing what I wore on a daily basis and one is a test piece for a rubber stamp. Hopefully I'll get some scanned from my small brown paper book soon.

Hello Again!

I'm pretty bad at this whole 'updating on a regular basis' thing, mainly because I'm lazy at scanning things, although I do have a whole load of things I want to share, so maybe over the Christmas Holidays I'll get around to it!

I'm posting this picture pretty much safe in the knowledge that although my Grandad has the internet, he doesn't know I have a blog, so if you're a cousin who stumbles across this- don't tell him!

This was comissioned by my Grandma for Grandad's Christmas present, based on a railway poster of Broadstairs I cut it all from paper (apart from the really small bits like people and fences- if I could cut that small I'd be rich and famous in the land of small bits of paper!). It's originally a little smaller than A4 size so it was quite fiddly, but I'm pretty pleased with it on the whole!

If you can't try something new for Christmas and up against a tight deadline, when can you try it!?

Oldies but Goodies*

Just posting some old work that I've dug out of my folders in a tidy up!

First few are from my fairytale project at Uni- based on the 7 Ravens story about a girl whose brothers are cursed into ravens. A bit like the swan fairytale, only with ravens.

This last one is a contact sheet from uni, can't remember what the project was- may even have just been 'take a reel of black and white film'! Anyway I love the look of contact sheets- can't get that with digital!

*no guarantee that these are any good!

Here be faeries...

This week's book of the week is The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1- The Field Guide.

This is the start of a really excellent modern fantasy series with some incredible illustrations.