Coral Sea Snorkelling 🤿 🐠 🪸

This drawing was the last of the Australia/Bali travel collection, and it absolutely dragged out the end of the project because I spent SO much time on it, and the more time I spent on it, the more impressive I felt it had to be. I had a vision for what I wanted it to look like and for ages I couldn’t quite get it, but after almost 4 months of working on it, something finally clicked just last week and I finally finished it! I’m insanely pleased with the end result and feel it was worth the faff!

So here it is, a slightly more vibrant depiction of the scenes I saw whilst snorkelling around coral reefs on a boat tour by the Whitsundays, combined with a few additions spotted at Cairns aquarium!

It’s definitely my favourite of the collection, and also the most detailed illustration that I’ve completed solely on Procreate. I’m so soooo excited to see how it comes out printed but I have to wait until I’m back home from my current travels! 🖨️ 🖼️

It also wasn’t until the piece was almost finished, that I realised it overlapped fairly heavily with an illustration I did for an editorial commission back in 2020, and it’s so nice so see a considerable amount of improvement between the two!

Pool Table Pit Stop

Held off sharing this illustration for quite a while, for fairly obvious reasons… here’s my ex playing pool 🤡

It’s been a strange challenge continuing with this project after the relationship I was in during the trip (that it was understandably largely centred around) came to an end. However it’s been a positive reflective practice nonetheless! Despite the reality I’m currently living being far outside the expectations I had for this time in my life, the end result with these illustrations is exactly what I envisioned and I’m immensely proud of it!

Throughout the project, I wanted to focus on different techniques and styles that I would usually limit myself on within a normal commission context, for this particular one I went for my usual semi-photo realism, but with an almost oil painting style that I see so often and have always loved, and I’m really pleased with it!

K'gari Island 🚍🏝️

It’s not super often that I choose to draw people, but these two were proper characters so I wanted to capture them as a significant part of the incredible memory!

So here is K’gari Island Tour guide and fellow curious traveller.

HELLO LONDON

In October, I begrudgingly moved back home to North London following a series of unfortunate events, it’s been a challenge, but it’s definitely been the best thing for me! I’ve been able to heal emotionally, get back to creativity, and I’m starting to re-establish myself here including doing my first London based market stall back in March, and booking on to loads more!

I’m currently working on personal projects as well as commissions and I’d absolutely love to get stocked in some London based gift shops… but that’s a work in progress with no success from any of my reach outs just yet.

I felt a new professional headshot and business card update was well overdue so here they are too!