Hair Slide How To

My most recent DIY project for the wonderful Small magazine blog is up (and in fact has been up for a while, I've been somewhat lax) here.

Yogarama

A friend is about to start teaching yoga classes to pregnant women (pre and post birth), and asked me to design a logo...

Book By Its Cover

I've been wanting to try and design a few book covers for my portfolio, here are my first two, both books I have at home (trying to conjure up some sunshine)...

Rosy

My latest pattern...

Looking Up

It's been a while since I've posted a picture for Illustration Friday, but I really liked the theme this week - star gazing - and thought I'd do a simple drawing for it...

Nice Cuppa

I'd love my illustrations to be used on packaging one day, so I thought I'd give it a go as a portfolio project. May I introduce my fictional tea range (not coming soon to a store near you)!

{click for a clearer view}

French Birds

A while ago I did a screenprinting workshop at work and this was the result (might be familiar to eagle-eyed visitors!).

Here are some brand new designs I've done along the same theme...

Birds and Bees

My - slightly belated - July craft project for Small magazine is up on their blog now. It's a little cardboard mobile that was really fun to make and illustrate, but very hard to photograph with all those characters swinging around all over the place!

Animated

I've been thinking about animating illustrations, so decided to give it a go in a very basic way, to use on the homepage of my website. Pixar has nothing to fear as yet!!

News Agent

I've been very excited this week about having just signed up with the great illustration agency Lemonade Illustration. My portfolio isn't on their website yet, but I thought I'd share a few of the illustrators represented by them that I particularly like...

Oscar Armelles

Neil Rook

Céline Malépart

David Pintor

All images via Lemonade

Another Cuppa

I'm pattern-crazy and really enjoying doing them! Here are tea cups, and I have my sights set on fairy cakes next.

Three, Two, One

Hmmm, the days of posting an illustration every day seem very distant... but in the interest of more frequent blogging, here's a new pattern to kick start things!!

Summer Sale

Seeing as all the shops are having crazy summer sales, I thought I would do the same. So, for the rest of July there's 25% off everything in my Etsy shop. If you've had your eye on any of my dolls, bears or ltd edition prints, now's the time to buy!  Also, I'm planning to stock up with some new items next month, so watch this space...

BFG

This week's Illustration Friday theme is Giant. This is the first time I've had something relevant that I'd already done - one I prepared earlier in true Blue Peter fashion! This big friendly giant is one of a series of illustrations that go with some brilliant children's poems that a friend has written...

Pushing The Envelope

Have you heard of Envelop? It's an online shop where illustrators/designers can upload designs that can then be bought by the public and printed on demand onto cushions, tote bags, aprons and more. There are all sorts of cool designs on there. I've been meaning to try it out for ages, and have got my first cushion design up now.