I managed to finish two more illustrations for my article and started practising Archaeological illustration, which is much more pared down. I need to start practising vector art again, since the clean line works well for this sort of thing. Now, the drawings:


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I'm quite happy with this. I wanted at least one of the birds in an action pose. In this case one of them is eating Sea Grape blossoms.
They have loads of personality, so I decided not to use the previous drawing I had done of the parakeet in a static pose. You can see one in action hereOn an unrelated note, does anyone know of any fairly central ( Read more... )

On Saturday I had a really fun day out in Camden with wieselkind and henzl who have both recently moved to London to study at UCL. I hadn't been to Camden in ages. There was a scary moment when we ventured into the newly refurbished Cyberdog because I wanted some hair dye, only to be bombarded with dance music and a giant dancing banana. I kid you not. I think ( Read more... )

This took me over 16 hours. And that's not counting the individual drawings. I had to reduce the file way down so it could fit on the net. It's massive! You can click through to the bigger (but not full-sized) version of the spread. At one point I thought I had closed the file without saving it and seriously, seriously you guys- I nearly went ( Read more... )

This is what I've been working on most of the weekend. From left to right: Automeris montezuma, Automeris belti, Automeris banus, Automeris zozine, Automeris io.

I have an Io moth story, though not a very nice one. Once, when my mum was gardening she closed her hand around an automeris caterpillar. The spines left an imprint of the shape in her ( Read more... )

Mainly entomological stuff. First of all, a Peach Blossom moth resting, and with wings spread. A British species


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On Saturday, before drawing at the Hunterian, I plan to go elephant hunting. I spotted one already when I was out with omg_its_fiore, but surprisingly I haven't seen any others! Anyway, to get into the spirit of things, here's a drawing of one of the most famous elephants, the God Ganesha. While researching him I found this:
Ganesha is widely revered as the ( Read more... )

<3 you guys. Thanks for being there for me when I feel down.

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Though I'd pass this along. Anyone who is an illustrator can enter. I have a few ideas already. :)


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