Elboo Witchy Poo

Little sketch of a witch :o)

Art Dump 2

These pictures were from one of  the first books I put together. I'm afraid looking back at them now I have come to realise that I'm probably crazy.

Again the story let me down - it just wasn't as much fun as the pictures.

I love drawing animals and I learnt to draw cats in English A'level class. I used to draw them over my friend Jen's work along with the word SNEEZE- she's allergic. I don't think she thought much of this, neither did our teacher. Happy Days.

This one above was inspired by my mum's cat Mop. He designs hats...  :os

Actually am quite an odd person :os

But again characters I love. I remember sending this off somewhere and knowing I wasn't happy with it. Its hard to know what to do when the story doesn't come together - should you move on or keep trying?

Art Dump 1

Perhaps not the most attractive way of putting it, but I'm really just dumping some art that I have had for a while. I wrote a little story for these characters sometime ago...

...it was awful.
It was far too rushed and I really just need to start again. I'm putting them out here because I really quite like these characters and wanted to share them.

I feel really guilty I didn't spend much time on them :o(

I will try and make it up to them :o)

More Lily-inspired pics

These are some more pictures from the book that I'm making. Most of these come from photos, which in A'level fine art I was told was not the 'done thing', but sod it.

Lily has been loads of fun to draw. I have done sketches of her - mostly when she's asleep - but for a lot of these I have used photos as a guide. I don't draw the photos exactly as I'm rubbish at that and it takes the fun out of it. I also think what's the point of making a painting which looks like a photo - well unless your Chuck Close - and I think you capture something being a bit less precise - not sure what though :os

Lily is very good at having her photo taken :o)

This last one is the last page of the book. It's a very messy sort of book I'm not a tidy person and I think it sort of reflects Lily as well who utterly enjoys mess.

My Muse

Have spent the last couple of months working on a book for Lily, where I have done loads of watercolour pictures of her (over 20) and then scrapbooked them.

These are some rough copies so far and not the end result, mostly because I decided to work on A3 so she would have an A4 book at the end of it. A3 is imposible to scan so I'll try and take pictures to show you end result, because - for once - I am quite proud of it.

My biggest problem now is getting the photocopies and making it into a boardbook for her and it HAS to be a board book as she will destroy it otherwise the little scamp :o)

pictures for music

Last month I was set a task of creating pictures for a CD cover :os I'm not really sure that I'm at all suited to the task, but these are what I came up with :os

This top one is my fav. Though really don't know that it has anything to do with the music involved :os

This one is a little more relevant as the CD is called Cinderella and you can't see it but she is holding a shoe. The shoe I drew looked dreadful :os

I don't much like this one.

These two were sort of practice and have absolutely nothing to do with the music.

On the whole not a great success. Maybe someone will airbrush them.

Feb pictures

Its been a busy month because I moved, but I promised I'd keep going and put something on for every month. They aren't quite as good as I hoped, but I'm going to keep going with this one...