The Swan Maiden.

This small narrative came out of the location drawings I last uploaded. 

They're all done with pencil on top of water colour.

A little bit of backtracking.

I can't quite believe it: I've been back at uni for 3 weeks now and I haven't done one little drawing, not even a thumbnail on a scrap of paper! However, with a studio based module on the horizon, and the promise of thumbnails aplenty, I thought it would be a good idea to catch up with uploading some of the work from last year that have been sadly neglected in the dusty and deeply buried files of my computer.

 
All these images were done on location around Plymouth and were made using watercolour and pencils.

Nights at the Circus

Fevvers, an Etching

Anyone who has read Angela Carter's novel "Nights at the Circus" will know that it is a veritable treasure chest of vividly evocative images, rich in texture and detail and just ripe for depicting, any illustrators dream.

This image of Fevvers, the story's feisty protagonist, is an etching. I used this design for the front cover (adding the title and authors name later by hand).