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At last I have finished this illustration for the back of my latest promotional postcard. I'm keeping the background plain as there will be my contact details along the bottom.
Hopefully this mailout will result in a commission as I have no work at the moment. A job fell through a few weeks ago which I didn't expect. After a few crazy months it feels strange to not be under loads of pressure with work. I have plenty of things to be getting on with but I will feel a lot happier once I have more illustration work. I must enjoy this free time as who knows what's round the corner?!
My promotional postcard is finished now (I think). I never know when to stop playing around with the background and if I do too much I'll ruin it so I'm stopping for now and will see what I think of it in the morning. I've moved the boy in the frog costume slightly higher as he looks like he's jumping more than in my drawing.
I've decided against putting my web address on the bottom right as I think it will be nice to keep the image simple and strong. Let's hope it gets me some work.
Tomorrow I'll be drawing another fancy dress character for the back...hmmm...a ladybird?
This is a drawing for a new promotional postcard I am going to send out. I wanted to illustrate some toddler-aged children as most of my illustrations are slightly older children, and mainly girls. I tried to do this yesterday but it all went wrong with my proportions so I gave up. Returning to it today with a clear mind has helped and I think they look a lot younger than my usual characters now. I've made them chubby with bigger heads than normal. I think this adds to the young effect. I can't wait to start the colour artwork.
I'm ashamed to say I've sometimes rushed my postcard artwork, especially when I had no work last year and the months were flying by. I was trying to get the postcards done as quickly as possible so that I would get some work but this didn't always mean quality of work. I'm now in the fortunate position of not having to worry so much about money and so I'm taking my time now with all my illustrations, not just commissioned artwork.
I'm very pleased with myself and my new look blog header. I'm absolutely clueless about html but thanks to Lorna, who gave me a link to some instructions on how to do it, I have now managed to change it.
Also today I have updated my website with quite a bit of the new work I've done over the last few months.
And as if that wasn't enough work for one day I have also made some final changes to the book cover for the project I 've just finished.
These are some photos I had developed recently taken with my Lomo Supersampler camera. It has four lenses which each capture the image but there is a time delay between each shot. It's a very small delay- I think it's half a second- but it gives you time to move the camera in whatever way you like (if you want) to create interesting images. It also has no viewfinder so you just point and shoot. The Supersampler takes 35mm film and you need to use it in bright, sunny weather for the best results (though actually I think the sunset photo at the top works well). I like the darkness round the edges of the photos which is typical of Lomo shots.
