Tag: Illustrators

• Black illustration

  

  A blog post celebrating black illustrators and designers

  Karen Erasmus

  Wednesday 3 June 2020

  Children’s Books, Illustration, Surface Pattern Design

  Australia, black illustrators, children’s book, childrens book illustration, designers of colour, illustration, Illustrators, picture books, publishers, surface pattern designers

• Sketchbook Project Continues

          A dive   Twin flowers

  Karen Erasmus

  Thursday 24 July 2014

  Illustration, Sketches

  character, child, children, children’s book, childrens illustration, collage, draw, drawing, illustration, Illustrators, ink, Karen Erasmus, mixed media, painting, sketch, watercolour

• Morning sketch

  I thought I’d try to start the day with a random sketch. I went for a particularly blowy walk on the beach this morning. The dogs had heaps of fun….I was going to say they had a ball but realised they are dogs and that could be misunderstood. They’re not intelligent enough for a ball,…

  Karen Erasmus

  Friday 27 June 2014

  Illustration, Sketches

  character, children’s book, childrens illustration, draw, drawing, Illustrators, Karen Erasmus, pencil, sketch, watercolour

• Working for Nothing

  Whenever you read or listen to advise from wise old artists and designers who have ‘made it’, top of the list is “Know what you’re worth”. That is; don’t sell yourself down, quote what you think your work is worth and never ever ever work for nothing. I totally agree with this to some point.…

  Karen Erasmus

  Wednesday 25 June 2014

  Illustration, Sketches

  character, children, children’s book, illustration, Illustrators, ink, Karen Erasmus, paint, painting, pencil, sketch, watercolour

• Character Sketching

  I am loving being at the creative stage of a new book. Testing out the characters, gestures and colours. This one is a lot of fun. I don’t know what happened in the uploading but these colours are totally wrong. She’s a cute little character though.

  Karen Erasmus

  Saturday 24 May 2014

  Sketches

  character, child, children’s book, dip pen, graphite, illustration, Illustrators, ink, Karen Erasmus, mixed media, painting, splash, watercolour