Christmas Commissions

Along with mass amount of market stalls and last minute deliveries I had to organise, I somehow managed to squeeze a few gift commissions into last few weeks leading up to Christmas. Each presented their own challenges but overall I’m super happy with the final outcomes, and I’m pretty sure the receivers of the illustration prints were too!

Both dog portraits were completed using solely Procreate on my new iPad, rather than Photoshop on my familiar Wacom Cintiq. I finally got my hands on my own iPad a few months ago, so I’m mildly embarrassed to say it’s not until now that I actually completed an illustration from start to finish using it. In all fairness, I’ve been very busy, and after around 6 or 7 years of using a Wacom Cintiq for 99% of my work, I’ve become a little stuck in my ways, but I’m hoping to make much more use of the iPad in the new year!

Grow Together

Delighted to share my newest illustration, because it’s about time I created something containing my 3 favourite themes, plants, animals and naked women. The Holy Trinity. I often create work as part of collections, but I think for once I’m happy with this as a stand alone piece.

I’ve barely drawn this year, especially personal projects, and I could easily feel deflated compared to the amount of illustrations I was able to complete over the 2 previous years, but I’ve grown a lot as an individual, overcome some really tough times and been reminded of what’s most important to me, specifically the power of the outdoors and the people around me. So this image kinda encapsulates that, and if it’s the only illustration I complete for myself this year, I’m happy with that.

Printing, as always, is causing me stress, but I’m hoping to have this available as the normal sizes but also a limited run of A2 prints! On my website, as well as at my upcoming markets. So watch this space for new products!

It's been a while...

I’ve been very quite in the art world over the summer, working on a few things behind the scenes here and there, but mostly just taking a huge break and not forcing myself to create when I don’t totally feel like it, and I’m really glad I did! There were definitely times where I felt guilty for not creating, and questioned whether I could call myself an artist when I haven’t drawn in months, but I continuously reminded myself of how silly these feelings were. Thanks to this long break, I’m feeling ready to jump into the winter and utilise the increased demand for products over the festive season, as well as more cosy nights in creating.

I’ve already hosted 2 market stalls to get back into the swing of things, made note of techniques to improve each one, and booked plenty more leading up to Christmas! I’m hoping to purchase a few things to jazz up my displays, as well as investing into new stock, which I’ll be sharing more details about super soon.

With this increased momentum of planning markets and creating new products, I’m also hoping to get the ball rolling again with the many different social media platforms and start posting more regularly again to engage customers. So to start that off, here’s a post to say I’m back!