A few Sketchbook Pages

Here is what some of the pages in my sketchbook look like =) 

All done in pencil and then fineliner. 

Process Post

This post shows how I work =) 

First I draw a rough sketch in my sketchbook 

 Then I use a black fine liner to work out which parts I'm going to cut out and to define the line work.

I then scan and print a copy of the image and fix it to a back piece of paper with Repositionable Spray Adhesive and cut out the smaller parts first to keep the strength of the paper in tact. 

I then cut out the bigger parts

I then remove the printed paper and photograph the black silhouette using a lightbox which ends up looking like this:

In Photoshop, I then added the black border framing the image and implemented the red lips from another photograph of red acetate previously photographed on a light box.

And that's all folks =) 

(Sorry for the poor photography) 

Ghosts Of Gone Birds Exhibition

Me feeling like a clever girl in front of my illustration =) At the ONCA Gallery in Brighton x

Ghosts of Gone Birds

This is my contribution to the Ghosts of Gone Birds Exhibition currently being held at the ONCA Gallery in Brighton. Lots of fun to do. I'm going to see it tomorrow, so excited!

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Years.

Grrrooowwwlll

Tiger illustration
3 layer paper cut
Photographed on a lightbox

Music

This is a new illustration completed today. I wanted to look at distorting musical instruments and make them swirly and pretty. The black is a handmade paper cut photographed on a lightbox to give the gradients of the background tone. I then took it into photoshop and implemented colour using photographs of coloured acetate.

I quite like how it turned out.

Have a nice week x

Impulse Collective

Poster for the lovely bunch at Impulse Collective 

New Header for Website/Blog. 

Haven't up my mind up about it yet. Might change it next week. 

Making Mailers to send out soon =) Squee!