Bernie Sanders- Illustration Friday Wisdom

So I thought that I'd use Bernie Sanders for this week's Illustration Friday (kind of killing two birds with one stone, as I really like this presidential candidate and hope he wins). His wisdom is seeing the value in everyone, no matter their financial background, and it's within the masses that you create a revolution, only by uniting everyone of every creed and colour can change be made.

So I started doing some more political cartoons again

Around the American primaries. This one seems a little abstract, I guess, but it's about the two front runners, who seem slightly more similar that one might think- sure, he's republican, she's democrat, he's an 'outsider' she's 'part of the establishment', but neither one of these people would describe themselves as a 'liberal', nor do they understand, coming from millions of dollars in wealth, what the average American goes through.

So we went to this man-made stone circle on a hill in a park on Saturday

And my boyfriend proposed (which I kind of knew he was going to do anyway but it was nice). We were extra lucky because the weather held up for us, it was actually pretty sunny- we had a picnic. We were a little too early to see the sunset, though.

So I got some fabric printed

And got my sewing machine out to make these little coin purses! I'm trying to sell them at fairs and on Etsy fingers crossed!

Illustration Friday- Dragon

Just another quick, Adobe Illustrator illustration for this week's topic, Dragon.

Illustration Friday- Dragon (Welsh)

So this week's topic is dragon, which I thought was the perfect opportunity to make a design for a Welsh tote bag, as the dragon is the 'animal' of Wales (do mythical creatures count as animals?) Last summer I made a 'Sunny Scotland' tote bag, which seems to sell quite well, so I thought- why not do one for Wales? You can check my Sunny Scotland tote bag out (or purchase it) here.

Running

So I've been working on some more editorial illustration, as I need to find editorial work. Here's a running illustration, I'm hoping to submit to runners world. I'll probably colour it later, but here's the black and white version for now.

IF- Childhood

This is one of the sketches that I'm sending ahead of applying for a grant to start writing and drawing a story based on my grandfather- there are still a few blanks to fill-in, but this is what I have so far. It's based on a picture of him that we found in one of the scrap books/ photo albums that he keeps. It feels pretty surreal seeing pictures of an old man grow up; I feel like it reminds you of just how short life really is.

Illustration Friday- Village- Cruden Bay

Sort of a quickish one (that ended up taking longer than I'd hoped....) Cruden Bay is a small village in Aberdeenshire (just south of Peterhead), a fishing village... so I drew a crab in the centre? I think that it added more of a contrast in colour to the image, but Cruden Bay is also famous (*cough*) for its golf, and being the place that inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula (even though it was set in the good old Yorkshire town of Whitby)- so there you have it! Ink, texture, colour.