So Christmas is approaching!

Over the past few months I've created a series of activity sheets in an attempt to keep ticking on with illustration through a pretty low point in my life. I've made some cue cards and colouring sheets for my very young Chinese ESL learners.

So I made some christmas cards

For this year. A bit of a random selection, but I'm going for the 'Cheesy Biscuit' theme and style- they're avaliable from my Etsy and on my stall (this week in Royal Exchange Square- I'm hoping that the weather holds up).

So I'm designing some more cards for the cat club

And maybe to sell at my own stall too. Here's a Christmas card I'm in the middle of fiddling around with. I like it when I can make bright red cards, and I feel that I have a reason to do so, although it's a little bit early to be feeling festive...

The first day of advent!

So it's the end of the first day of advent, and someone on twitter suggested creating an illustration for each day of the countdown, using the hashtag #illo_advent, which you can check out on twitter (there are some great little pieces of art). My first illustration is a chilly little robin- I hope you like it! I do so love drawing robins, maybe tomorrow should be some children. My religious background also dictates that I get some christian themes in eventually too, even though I don't really believe in that stuff anymore.

I kind of wish that I had the money and resources here to play around with light like I did for my A levels when I was 16... Ah... 16... cringe. Just for the hey, I tried to get into my long abandoned Deviantart account, but alas, the password has been lost along with my angsty teenage self, and I can't be asked to recover it. I did, however, take a look at the last nativity scene that I did. It is here:

Well, my proportions sucked, but I like the lighting effect, I wish that I could do it again, but better.