Trouble

For Illustration Friday - mixed media

Hybrid

This week's Illustration Friday topic is Hybrid. I had a lovely idea for a red London bus powered by a water wheel (not the most practical of hybrid vehicles, but as I was pressed for time I went for a hybrid tortoise with a forest upon his back.

Jungle

A bit of a rush job for Illustration Friday - but here's a giraffe, who actually lives in the plains according to my husband. It's nice to be drawing again

Central St Martin's Children's Illustration Course

I recently did the short course in Children's Book Illustration II - Advanced at Central Saint Martin's, taught by artist and illustrator April Wilson. I've done the earlier course (Children's Book Illustration I) some time before and I would really recommend both. The courses cover a variety of things, such as different media, facial expressions, story-boarding etc.

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be adding some of the work I did as part of the course - please bear in mind most of these pictures would have been done during class-times and are generally pretty quick, rough sketches, not finished pieces of art by any means.

So to kick things off - These images were part of an exercise on facial expressions. We made a very basic sock puppet then made it make different facial expressions which we drew - simple.

We then developed these into a short sequence - this is mine