Update!

I think it's about time I give this blog an update! A few points:

- I'm working on a website! It's not online at the moment, but when it is you can find it at www.ellabailey.co.uk (I'll post about it when it is live!).

- I've had a lot of questions about where you can find prints of my work; the answer is nowhere... just yet! Again, I'm working on getting a few things together, and you should hear more about that very soon.

- Lastly, I'm sorry I haven't been very interesting this year, final year is definitely living up to it's reputation! Hopefully I'll have something to show for it soon though (pretty pictures!).

Here are some little sketches for now!

You may recognise this last little guy from my new header!

Identical

Edit!!

Cool Cats

It seems I have moved on from canines to cats.

Lonely

Just a watercolour experiment this week (...I've been drawing a lot of wolf-like things recently).

Fresh from the Sketchbook

So right now I'm having fun with some character design -these concepts are based off the story The Snow Queen. I'm looking at just a few characters, mainly Gerda (the heroine), the Witch of Finland (or maybe the Lapland lady), the Grandma, the Snow Queen herself (the thing that set this project off was the above photoshop doodle), and perhaps Kai (who somehow happens to be one of the only boys in the story...).

Aaaaanyway, here are some bits and pieces from my sketchbook:

 

And there's lots more where these came from...

In the Attic

Here are the three finished colour spreads from my latest university project, where I illustrated the text 'In the Attic' by Hiawyn Oram. The cat picture is tall because it is a fold down page in the dummy book. This was a super fun project, and working traditionally made a nice change from all the photoshop I've been doing!

There are mice in this post!

Here are a few sketches from the uni project I've been working on right now. It's the children's book project, which is super fun, but also super-lots-of-work.

Perennial

I found a piece of (very) old watercolour board which made me want to do some 'real' painting, since I've been doing so much digital stuff lately. I'll probably update with a more colour-accurate version once I've twiddled around in Photoshop some more (although I quite like this cooler version).

That little thing eating her skirt is a baby tapir, by the way. I want one. :D

IF - Stay!

"Don't run away yet, I'm not finished!"

Illustration Friday, second week running ;)