Wedding Invites

The reason that I haven't blogged much so far this year has been because I have been working on wedding invitations for my cousin who is getting married in July. The invites were fiddly and quite time consuming to make but I think they've turned out well, I enjoyed folding the heart shape origami for the back, (I might play around with more origami in the future) I just hope the happy couple like them.

The Arctic

I've been watching a great series on BBC called Human Planet, it's on a Thursday at 8pm and is really interesting. I was rather inspired by last weeks episode which focussed on the ice and have started drawing animals that live in the arctic, here's a little sneak peak at what i've been drawing.

Portraits

Apart from animals my favourite things to draw are faces, and the more character the face has the better, I seem to prefer drawing men but I think that's because I enjoy drawing facial hair, and I haven't found too many women to draw that have facial hair. I'm in the process of working on a few prints which will include and look at using the image of Willie Nelson and the older gent who has got the most brilliant face to draw. The drawing of Tom Selleck "the man with the moustache" was a bit of an experiment, I usually draw with a quill pen and ink but I drew Tom using a sharpened stick found in the garden, It's nice to try out different things once in a while but I prefer the level of detail you can get using a quill.

Introducing......

Meet Lily and Gene, I'm quite surprised at myself that this is the first time I have blogged these guys as there all I seem to take photos of at the minute. Lily, is one and we got her last August after a friend could no longer look after her and when I found out that Gene (who is 6months) had yet to find a home we took him in from another friend when he was just 8weeks and extremely cute (not that he's not cute now). They are totally inseparable and real great characters, it's so nice to have cats again in the house.

New Year, New Look

So a New Year has begun and my main New Years resolution is to make some more time for my own work and also make sure this blog is updated frequently. I was very lucky to be given an SLR for Christmas/Birthday so I have no reason now not to update things.

To start of this New Year I have created a little logo and a new blog header for a fresh start......hope you like it.

Christmas Patterns

Christmas in excitingly not too far away and to get myself in the mood I drew up a couple of christmassy patterns involving my favourite christmas time animals. I have been very neglectful of my blog and own work recently but have been finding it hard to find the time from my 9 to 5 work I've been doing, which I unfortunately can't post on here. I know its a few months away yet but my new years resolution will definitely be to spend more time working on my own projects.

A bird from A to Z

I've been wanting to get back to the drawing board for a while now so to get started I have given myself a nice little project, I am drawing a bird whose name begins with every letter of the alphabet. Here is last nights work of A, B and C, and in time I will draw the rest right up to Z. I'm always afraid of adding a bit of colour to my drawings so have decided to add colour to every bird to try and get more comfortable with it as I don't want to be stuck in black and white forever. I'm not sure what I will do with the drawings (a zine, a print, ???) so any suggestions would be much appreciated.