A couple of my ideas for a children's activity book.

My Very Colourful Spinning Top!!

My Illustrations Of Some Toys And Games From History

Diabolo

Football

Hoop

Hopscotch

Marbles

skipping Rope

Whip and Top

Jacks

Ball and Cup

Battledore and Shuttlecock

Conkers

Cricket

My aim is to find out why some of these toys were put into a museum and how some stuck around to be played today...What's the difference between them??

Victorian boy with hoop

My first ink drawing of a victorian boy about to throw his hoop.

A sneak peek at my long legged doggie for my masters project...His name is Patch! 

The End Papers Of My Book.

These end papers look yummy!!

Carly Cupcakes Disgusting Toppings

A page out of my second finished book.

Kevin And the Missing Football Sock

These are two pages out of my first finished children's storybook.

Photographs Of My Degree Show!

A page out of my journal.

To be honest, I just wanted to draw a dinosaur! 

My Masters Project.

For my masters project I want to re-introduce children to toys and games that were played and enjoyed in the 1900s. Instead of boring children with facts, I want to use illustration in a fun way to make these toys wanted again. Above is a poster I illustrated as a imagery description of my project. Keep checking my blog to see my newest ideas and illustrations for this idea.

I have just found this illustration I did a while ago, when I was experimenting with textures within my illustrations. For this image I used the texture of leaves to create the birds feathers.

'Typography'

Some of Carly Cupcake's disgusting cupcakes!

CARLY CUPCAKE! WOOOOOHOOO!

The first sketch of my character Carly Cupcake!

Sketchbook Pages!

This is an illustration I created for the front cover of the book

'Take A Girl Like You' By Kingsley Amis.

Illustrations for a project called 'Orchestra'

And these were two pages of illustrations for the poem 'Diary Of A Church Mouse'

By John Betjeman. 

These illustrations I used for the poem 'Diary Of A Church Mouse'.

For the end result I wanted them to be black and white, so I needed to make sure the original image was really interesting with lots of textures. I did this by using ink and paper.

The end result for the illustration I created for the poem

'All Over The World' By Christina Starobin.

These are a few illustrations that I did for a poem called 'All Over The World'.

I love creating line drawings using dipping ink, you get such a sharpe edge and 

because you cant remove it if you go wrong, it makes every drawing unusual.