For the last week I've been in Glasgow as part of the Animation Base Camp. I'm here as a Story Artist. This week has been inspiring, challenging, and full of fun. Unfortunately I can't really show what I've been working on yet, so here are a couple of designs I did...
A little something I made yesterday!
For my grandfather's birthday, I made him a tie. The actual sewing of it was fairly simple (no complicated seams or sleeves or buttonholes!) but I had a little trouble getting my head around the repeating pattern. There were a few false starts before I got it...
My grandparents are moving and leaving behind the house that my mum grew up in. It's a huge change for all of us as it's been such a big part of our lives. Behind their house is a large field filled with beech trees where my mum, and then my sister and I, grew up...
Though I've been working on a few different projects I can't share much from them yet. So here are some drawings from my personal project, a story of mine that I'm illustrating. I posted some concepts for it back in February (see them here). I began with very loose...
Making birthday cards for people is something I really like to do. Here's one I made for my sister a few days ago. I've created paper cut-out cards before, but this is the first time I've played with depth. It was fun! I should make more.
Mother's Day (or Mothering Sunday) was yesterday here in the UK. I made a little card for my mum with a Charley Harper-inspired caricature of Elsa, our Border Collie. Though my sister immediately knew what it was meant to be, our parents thought it was either a bear...
I'm illustrating a short story of mine, something I've wanted to do for a while! Here are some of the concept sketches. I'll use a similar style for the finished pieces; I didn't initially plan for them to be black and white but I love how these have turned out.