I’m a bit excited about this! A famous person reading a book I illustrated, and getting dressed up for the occasion.
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I need to learn how to Play the Game, and I’m learning that that’s the only way to relate to being an artist and marketing your work. It’s a big game. I am thoroughly enjoying listening to the audio book of Seth Godin’s ‘Leap First‘. It’s about marketing your artwork. I just love the way…
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Mock-up Love
As with any profession, illustration is an endless journey of discovery and learning. Two years ago I discovered pattern design and adored it. Then, not long after that I found out about mock-ups and honestly I probably got a bit over enthusiastic. I just loved it. It gives patterns a context and a reason. Also,…
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Reading to Children
I can honestly say that some of my favourite memories of my children being small are the times when we sat down to read a book together, or two or three. Most nights I had to put a cap on it at three or four in case I fell asleep whilst reading to them. Our…
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Next Phase
A brief update of what I’ve been up to for the past three months. I’m very happy to be getting back to illustrating.
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That Drawing Project I did 100 Years Ago!
It’s hard to believe how quickly the past two months has disappeared. When I last wrote I was finishing up on my #100daysofanimalsinhats project with The 100 Day Project. I really got into the swing of it towards the end and stared getting to grips with using Adobe Illustrator and building my skills. I also…
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Creativity, young people and mental health
As a teacher of creativity it was really disheartening this week to hear in the news that humanities degrees in Australia are set to double in cost over the next few years. The (total nonsense) logic is that it will encourage young people to consider more vocational subjects. But of course it will only disadvantage…
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Learning new skills
I’ve recently published a Skillshare class on illustrating characters in Photoshop. You can get 2 months free Skillshare access with the referral code in this post.
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Black illustration
A blog post celebrating black illustrators and designers
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More sewing
Face masks with wire! So life is opening up again and it feels weird and worrying so this weekend I hid behind my sewing machine. That’s not strictly true, we did have drinks with a few friends and of course I ferried the kids around but I did spend a large amount of time sewing…
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