more mental health drawings

Project:BABE 'Becoming' Exhibition

I'm submitting some work to project:BABE's 'Becoming' exhibition really soon and they asked me to do the launch poster for it too, here's the first version!

More Mental Healths

Mental Healths

Trying to draw some of my experiences with mental illness for an exhibition (that I'll go into more in another post!). This is the first of at least a couple more that I might eventually combine into one image, who knows.

Star Map

First version

Fairy Tale Illustration

I included a lot of 19th / 20th century illustrations from fairy tale books in my Fairy Tales and Feminism zine (that made up part of my fomative assessment before Christmas) and have been looking at them again recently, thinking of using them as an influence on my own current work.

Some good and extensive examples can be found here by Kay Nielsen and and here by Arthur Rackham.

Arthur Rackham

I also noticed a bit of a similarity between these classical fairy tale illustrations and Yelena Brysenkova's work that I was looking at a few days ago.

More Books

I'm massively into graphic novels and have read two of them since Christmas, the first being The New Ghost by Robert Hunter. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous and the story (although very short) is wonderfully bittersweet. It's published by NoBrow  as part of their 17x23 series.

 

I also read Fun Home by Alison Bechdel which had been on my to-read list for ages and which I read all 232 pages of in one sitting, the story was excellent.

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Spacey

Cat Mirrors!

All hail the dawn of Cat Mirrors! Got some mirrors made of my Rad Cat and Cat Moon illustrations.

Going to reopen my etsy shop and stock these this afternoon, will put a link up later.

Yelena Bryksenkova

Stumbled on the work of Yelena Brysenkova the other day, one of my new favourite illustrators of all time ever. Makes me want to give using watercolours another try!

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Festive Cat

Drew someone's cat for a Christmas card

Tablets

Got a Wacom tablet for an early Christmas present, here is the first masterpiece.

Really excited about figuring out how to do fancy Illustrator things with it!

The Return of Cat Moon

All hail Cat Moon

Epitaph For My Heart

I've just finished a lovely commision to illustrate one of my favourite Magnetic Fields' songs, Epitaph For My Heart.

Scribbly Self Portrait

Geekin out

As part of my Contextualising Practice coursework for the Narrative Word and Image module I'm taking, I had to produce a map of a well known narrative using no writing. Obviously I chose to do Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone because I am a ridiculously enormous HP geek.

I did this really quick and sketchy but it was super fun to draw.

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Annoying Couples

Quick illustration I did of me and my boyfriend Jack

I was genuinely disappointed there wasn't more colourful colouring in for me to do, goff lyf.

Animation Beginnings and Stills

In the last week or so I've finally started drawing out the first frames of my animation after lots of visual research and planning and learning new software. Here's the first animatic loop which I'm currently illustrating my characters over. I will probably add a few more inbetween frames to the run animatic whilst I'm animating my characters.

Here's a still of one of my characters over the running loop!

Underachievers Hooded Fang Poster

My most recent poster commission was an updated version of a poster for Manchester clubnight Underachievers Please Try Harder advertising their Hooded Fang gig at The Castle in Manchester's Northern Quarter. 

While I'm on the subject of Hooded Fang, I absolutely lovelovelove this single and the amazing animation that goes with it!

Sadly I didn't actually get to go to this gig as I was at the clubnight that me and my boyfriend organise, artwork for which will be in the next post!

Font Bag

Was asked by a bar called The Font to design a two colour tote bag that they could give out on the streetz of Manchester over freshers week, this is what I came up with. Font is super lovely and are amazing at supporting emerging artists and illustrators (as well as having the best cheap cocktails in the entire world ever).