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? 

 

World book day 2022

For world book day this year I wanted to draw a bunch of kids dressed up as book characters ready to go to school to join in with the book day celebrations. I loved dressing up for world book day as a kid and my favourite outfit was an Angelina Ballerina outfit my mum made me out of some of my old ballet outfits. I had a long tail and ears. It was the best. 

Did you ever dress up for world book day? What was your favourite costume? 

 

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? 
 

Degree show

https://radar.hud.ac.uk/directory/art-and-communication/illustration/2021/charlotte-whiteing/

In the summer, I finished my university course in illustration. This is the link to my page on the online degree show. Its a shame I didn't get to have a proper in person degree show but its nice that this online degree show lasts a long time. On the website, you can see a selection of illustrations i did for my final major project of Mr Badger's endangered expedition and there is also a link to a little portfolio of work I made. I am really proud of my final major project where I created a lift the flip book for children. As someone who didn't do well at school, I managed to excel at university and get top marks and for the first time ever in my life I felt like I am actually smart and that makes me for happy. 

 

Happy spring

 

 

Happy spring everyone in the northern hemisphere.

Here is a cute little spring illustration I did of a mummy rabbit and her litter of bunnies in front of a blossom tree. 

What is your favourite season?

My favourite season changes all the time depending on what the weather is like and what I'm feeling.

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. 

Sunday Football

After I did the little ballet dancer, I wanted to do another illustration of a character moving so I drew a footballer. This scene captures a young boy at his Sunday morning football game with all the parents watching on in the background. I often feel like a gravitate towards drawing girls as I am female myself so I like to mix it up by drawing a male character every now and again. 

Question of the day- do you like football? If so, who do you support? 

Pinterest

Here is a link to my Pinterest-

https://pin.it/5Eimo0o

Please feel free to pin any of my work to your boards for inspiration or simply some cuteness to brighten your day. 

Lol this is a random photo of me I decided to doodle on top of but hi if this is the first time you're seeing my face, this is me. 

Little lion dino

This drawing is of a funny and cute little hybrid creature i designed. He is kind of a lion and kind of a dinosaur and kind of just a bright and colourful bundle of joy. He is very small and lives in the grass so you probably won't be able to spot him in the wild. 

As a character design, I really like this character and want to develop him further. I would like to come up with a cool name and story with him in the future to take him on little adventures.