Photoshop Illustration.

A few weeks back I found my graphics tablet which I had completely forgotten about. Now I have a whole bunch of free time during my uni summer break I thought it would be a great chance to get myself doing the things I used to love and haven't done in a very long time. I did a set of three potted plant drawings, a cactus, an aloe vera, and a venus fly trap. These were all similar in colour and style (including being drawn into the same style pot).

You can buy these illustrations as separate A4 prints or as a set of 3 A5 here.

Venus Flytrap.

Cactus.

Aloe Vera.

Sketchbooking.

This is the first update on the progression of my work during the summer. Here are a few things I've been doing this week in my newly made sketchbooks. 

Mixed Media Houses.

Dripping Ink Skull.

Skull and Daisy.

Mixed Media Block of Houses.

Mixed Media Colour Leaves.

Mixed Media Coloured Leaves.

Mixed Media Cacti.

Pencil on Black Paper Whale.

Two Tone Ink Drawing of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tracing Paper Removable Sunglasses.

Wax Crayon and Ink Yoda.

Wax Crayon, Ink and Pencil Bikes. 

Handmade Sketchbooks.

I recently made two of my own sketchbooks using a variety of different papers including tracing paper, old opened out envelopes, parchment paper, etc. I used different papers since I'm really bad at sticking with one sketchbook, and in hope that this will keep me interested until the end. This will also help me with different approaches to different paper and media, helping me become looser in my illustration work. To make these books I used the coptic stitch binding method. For a first attempt, I don't think they came out too bad, they could be a little neater but that will come with practice I suppose. 

My Hand Bound Books. 

Photoshop.

After completing all of my university work early, I've been playing about with photoshop and my tablet. I took a carbon paper drawing and added some splashes of colour to make it a little more interesting. Now I've finished my first year of university, I'm going to try to keep up to at least one illustration a day. Hopefully this summer will be the start of portfolio building. 

Carbon Paper, Photoshop Edit.

Final Book.

During my last unit of year one illustration, I have been busy researching into tea and tea wares ready to create a 12 double page spread book. For this book I used free machine embroidery, etchings and mixed media. These are some scans, page by page and in order of the finished piece. 

Front Cover.

Pages 2 and 3.

Page 4.

Page 5.

Page 6.

Page 7.

Page 8.

Page 9.

Page 10.

Page 11.

Page 12.

Page 13.

Page 14.

Page 15.

Page 16.

Page 17.

Page 18.

Page 19.

Page 20.

Page 21.

Pages 22 and 23.

Back cover.