Ce livre, il est super cool!

Found this awesome book in a devon charity shop a while ago and been meaning to blog about it. I love the illustration of the policeman and the limited colour palette. Who could resist for 50p!? I've also learnt how to translate such classic phrases as 'Come in, Marcel! I have just found my stamp-albumn and I am sticking in some stamps', brilliant.

Jenny Yellow Hat, the origins....

Forget x-men origins, this is WAY cooler. This series of books is responsible for my blog name. It was the first books I was taught to read way back in year 1 (i think this is before reception class was invented). People of my age and a bit older will remember those days of glory and the excitement brought about by different coloured hats before Biff, Chip and Kipper replaced them. The bastards.

Many thanks to my other half for surprising me with this copy, he is good.

Limited Edition Prints from Whoop Studios

These gorgeous prints are from Whoop Studios. I love the bold use of colour and simple shapes. I have a big thing for textures too and these are just... Mmmmmm.....

Apache animation

Apache from oneedo on Vimeo.

Had a tutorial this morning and It's been suggested I should look into animating my illustrations aswell. Really like this one

bluetit feather play

Been playing at developing ways to create and layer imagery. This is the first of them, I'm thinking about making some prints of him

Awesome toothpick sculpture

Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo.

Now that's dedication!

Sol Linero - Oceans

Oceans from Sol Linero on Vimeo.

Really love the imagery in this. The shapes and textures are gorgeous! Makes me wish I would get a project like this... nom nom nom

Naked drawing = fun

This was filmed sneakily by tutor Tony during one of the Life-drawing sessions at uni. Tony knows this is my favourite part of life drawing. Known as the 'expressive part' we are encouraged to focus on communicating the feel of the pose, working on translating the focused strength and muscle tension of the pose onto the paper.

This practise has strongly influenced my learning and helped me to realise that in illustration you can draw things exact or styled up as much as you like, but it's all useless if the right feeling isn't there. This is something I've been really focusing on this year.

Illustration Friday - Bicycle

The moment I stop doing illustration friday for a bit, one turns up that I'm falling over myself to submit for! Thank goodness I checked what the weeks word was.

These are re-jigged images from a recent bookcovers project at uni.

To view the original bicycle bookcover (and the rest of the project) click here to see them as flats, and here to see them mocked up in 3D.