Today I attended a Botanical Illustration Masterclass at the House of Illustration. The tutor, Elaine Searle, told us that botanical illustration is for control freaks, which should make it ideal for me, except I'm also very impatient. I doubt I'll be doing something like this...
This summer, I attended a 6-week course in Intermediate Illustration at the House of Illustration, taught by Merlin Strangeway. I have a lot of trouble motivating myself to work on my artwork unless there's a specific project or client demanding it, and I wanted to...
Last week, I attended "Graphic Novel your Life", an intensive week-long course at the House of Illustration in London, run by Rachael Ball (author of "The Inflatable Woman"). Doesn't everybody think their life story is worth a book? To be honest, I'm not so sure...
Every year, the Folio Society and the House of Illustration run a competition of book illustration, and this year I've entered as well. The proposed book was a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, for which we had to create a cover design and an illustration...
I'm trying to take this drawing thing more seriously, so I've made some business cards for myself, but as you can see, a bad hamster showed up and started chewing on them....