This blog is about my dream of becoming a children's book illustrator. I worked for 7 years as a 2D animator and story artist, and I loved my work. I mean, I REALLY loved my work. I would run to work because I was so excited about the prospect of drawing all day. When I had my children I became utterly enchanted by children's books. I am studying an MA in children's illustration and this blog is to chart my progress, my thoughts, desolation, and inspiration.
Tuesday 18 August 2015
Sunday 16 August 2015
Negative space
Continuing on with using watercolour, I thought I could explore concentrating on negative space. I decided to play with using masking fluid and cut out stencils. So here I'm showing some experimental sketchbook work using these processes and then some more progressed work.....which is still work in progress.
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Learning to use watercolours
So after having spent a few weeks playing with screen printing, I have also wanted to progress my use of watercolours, so today I have been experimenting with some paints.
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Screen printing still. Today it has been all about cats. Still experimenting with the inks. I think my second colour had a tad too much extender base as it is very watery in the prints but the images seemed to work anyway. Tried to use a stiff acrylic paint brush to make the drawing fluid go on more scratchily ( not a word ) but it seemed to give a nice feel of fur to the print marks.
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