The princess and the pea

The princess and the pea has always been one of my favourite fairy tales and I wanted to practice creating book covers so I made this illustration. I used purple for the main colour as purple is a regal colour. The tall pile of mattresses is very colourful to help show how tall the pile is. She is looking a little worried and a little tired as she is very high up and unable to sleep. 

What is your favourite fairy tale? 

 

Chinese New year- year of the tiger

Happy Chinese New year to all those celebrating this week!! Here is a little tiger illustration to the festive season this year as it is the year of the tiger. I was born in the year of the rabbit but was jealous of all my friends who were born in the year of the dragon as dragons are so much cooler than rabbits. I always love the story of the Chinese zodiac, its so fun. 

What animal was it the year you were born? 

 

Rocking robin

I went on one of them sites that chooses a colour palette for you and when I saw the colours, I immediately saw a Robin in a wreath. Its some what festive so its a little late but I love Christmas and am always in the spirit. 

 

Jamming out

This little jar of strawberry jam is having fun listening to music. Its a little pun illustration which I love doing. It was fun doing a pun that wasn't for a greetings card even though I love doing greetings card puns. 

 

Beach fun time

this illustration is of a dad who's taken his two young children to the beach on a sunny day. The dad is sleeping (or as he would say "just resting his eyes") in his deck chair as the children play. The daughter has been busy running about playing in the sea and collecting shell to show off to dad. The son is having fun in the sand and sneakily burying dad's feet in the sand when he's meant to be building a sandcastle. 

I loved building sandcastles as a kid, we'd make hugh castles that had big moats filled with water and rivers leading all the way to the sea. 

What is your favourite beach memory? 
 

Fly paper airplane fly

 

An illustration of a girl throwing a paper plane. I was playing with creating a black and white greyscale illustrations. I drew it originally in colour and then made it black and white in my drawing app layer by layer.  I loved drawing this as it was very different to what I am used to. Greyscale illustrations are fun as you have to think differently about the colour you are picking so the drawing works. 

Autumn vegetables

Little selection of autumn veggies. I was playing around with different brushes and textures on autodesk sketchbook and created this. I think the leek turned out the best. Autumn has the best vegetables and they are the best in soups and stews. 

 What is your favourite vegetable? 

I like all vegetables pretty much but my favourite are parsnips. 

Diwali

An illustration to celebrate diwali aka the festival of light. I enjoyed drawing this as I got to look into more traditional Indian clothing to draw for the characters. As it is the festival of light, I played around with glowy brushes on sketchbook to make it everything shiny and glowy.

 

Bright pattern

Saw a video of how to create water and sea like designs. So I thought I'd try it out, this was my first attempt and I didnt get it looking quite like water but I enjoy the pattern it makes. I might try again and get it looking more like water but like like working with more colours in general so this can just be a nice bold pattern for now. 

Little tree

The adventures you can have in the open countryside in the open fields. 

This piece was to explore different textures and mark making. 

Rainbow mermaid

Originally drawn for mermay. This mermaid is all colourful and happy as she looks up into the light of the moon. It was inspired by the mcfly song five colours in her hair which was one of my favourites as a kid. 

F the tories

Don't normally get political on here but honestly I get more and more fed up of the tories every day and wish the uk was run so much better. I'm glad I live in a country where I can openly criticise the people in charge but I wish I could do more. The statement itself is pretty bold and blunt so I toned it down with some pretty flowers. 

Woman walking a chicken

Based on a draw this in your style from Instagram, here is a digital drawing of a woman walking a chicken. I like to think she's some upper class woman who owns a big estate but is allergic to dogs so has to walk a chicken instead. The chicken is her little princess and is way too pampered for a little chicken but it has a great life. 

Walrus

 A quick sketch of a walrus in a fancy waistcoat. I don't know why but walruses always seem fancy and deserve a nice hat or waistcoat or something to me. Is it just me that thinks  this? 

Wild Child

Emma Roberts as Poppy Moore in Wild child is another iconic film from my tween years. I loved the concept of boarding school as a kid. There was this book series called secrets at St judes that I was obsessed with and them books made me love the idea of a boarding school but obviously the reality of boarding school probably isn't as cool or filled with drama as in the movies and books. 

Superkoala

 You know how I love a koala. This koala is flying high in the sky to save someone or something. 

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone. Here is the drawing I made for this Easter season. I thought I hadn't drawn one of my koala characters in a long time for I thought I would let little kerry go on a big Easter egg hunt in the garden. 

Lets help kerry, How many Easter eggs can you see?

And can you spot the magical bunny that put them there?

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend. 

Our other mother

 

Happy mother's day! Sunday 14th March is mother's day here in the UK but as well as celebrating our relatives and other important women in our lifes, we are also celebrating our other mother aka mother nature. Parents groups and children's illustrator over on Instagram have started a #ourothermother campaign to get creatives to rise awareness for climate change again and celebrate the beauty and wonders of plant earth. This drawing of mine celebrates mother nature and shows her beauty and peacefulness as she holds the plant in her arms. 

the girl and the bear

This piece is a fun little cute piece with a little girl and a brown bear with lots of pink flowers.

Peter Pan and Wendy

Peter pan is one of my favourite disney films and I love the sequel return to Neverland even more. I rarely draw multiple character pieces but its something I want to carry on improving with so here is Peter and Wendy flying over London on their way to Neverland . 

Question of the day- what is your favourite disney film?