Recent Sketchbook Pages

Do not listen to the pushy-sales-whale.

Beard-spotting in York.

IIIIINK!

I love scanning things in.  Hah.  All hail the almighty A3 scanners.

A Welsh Street

HOUSES!

This is the image for the half-title page of A Child's Christmas in Wales.

It's nice working in pencil :)  I do NOT enjoy scanning A3 images with an A4 scanner.  What a faaaaff.

Burning

Ok, i could've SWORN the Illustration Friday topic of this week was burning... I was clearly dreaming.

But anyway, here is my non-entry for "burning".

*sulks*

Same as usual: just click on it to make it bigger.

Recent Experiments

Does anyone else think the weird things hanging in the centre of Newcastle look like sparkly whales?

...just me then.

 

Playing around with a sketch I did one morning of the roofs we can see from our living room window.

...and here are some wee sketches from my Italy sketchbook.  *sigh*  I really miss Venice!  

bidone

cuscino

scarabocchi

perduto

matita caso

p.s. it's the same old "click-to-make-the-picture-bigger" situation.  Quality is bad because these are just photos... no scanner this week! :(

"Spent" Illustration Friday

That HORRIBLE situation where you've spent your bus money and have to walk home with loads of shopping bags. 

All hail the almighty bus pass!

:)

Mrs Prothero...

Initial sketches/ brain-spew for Mrs. Prothero.  On this page she is flapping about because there's a fire.