Katharine's 52 Week Illustration Challenge: January 2016

Friday 29 January 2016

Week 4 Swimming

4 images
An eclectic range of styles this week.
Inktense pencils, fineliners, brush pens, photoshopping... here's my swimming collection, in the order I created them.

Sunday 17 January 2016

Two images
Continuing my attempts to produce repeating patterns, here's my rollercoaster.
I created a draft on paper and then used it as a guide when I drew it in photoshop.
It took AGES! It's not perfect, but I am pretty happy with it.
(** and it was included in the picks :) )

And now, here is a little sad doodle character not tall enough to ride.

This design, along with a few others, is available on clothes, stationery, home decor items and more in my Redbubble shop

Saturday 16 January 2016

2016 Week 2 - Outdoors

Three images

Padley Gorge, Peak District. From a photo taken the day after my Godson's wedding when he took us all on a little ramble
Created in photoshop with a wacom tablet.

One of my goals this year is to master repeated patterns. I worked quite hard on this, but it's still quite stripey! I am happy with the meadow-ness though.

This design is available on clothes, stationery, home decor items and more in my Redbubble shop

I also mis-remembered this prompt - I thought it was 'outside'. Here's my first illustration which I couldn't enter for the challenge, but I want to share it anyway.

2016 Week 1- Fancy dress

2 images

I convinced myself that the theme was costume, rather than fancy dress. My illustrations still fit the theme but I might have approached it differently if I had read the instructions properly!

Tim Angel of Angels costumiers and fancy dress emporium
This is where I went to get fitted for my first costume as an extra.

This is Shakespeare's Titania as seen in a school performance for Rock Challenge

My 52 weeks of illustrations - 2015

I did it!
A year of at least one illustration a week, uploaded and shared for the world to see.
This link takes you to Photobox, where there is a slideshow of the book I have made.
Ignore the suggestions that you might like a copy of the book!
Katharine's 52 Week Illustration Challenge

Here are all the pictures I entered into ther weekly challenges in a collage

Friday 1 January 2016

Week 52: World

2 images and a video clip

I got a bit (very) carried away
Sofa ridden, with a cold, and down time between Christmas and New Year, gave me lots of doodling time.
First of all is a world map distorted in shape, to accommodate 28 individual doodled sketches. They are the top 25 tourist destinations according to Trip Advisor with three of my own choices.
The clip whizzes through the sketches in less than a minute: here it is.
I have no idea why I felt the need to do another illustration, but you will find it below...