New blog is GO!

I've started up a new blog over on tumblr to replace this one, please follow the link below and check it out.  There's not a whole lot up at the moment but I aim to be updating more regularly so I hope you'll keep visiting.  Thanks!  http://abihallcreate.tumblr.com/

Buchanan Street.....

....on a cold and frosty Friday morning.

Scandinavian Inspired Mug Design

Another draft design for a new mug....

We Are Family!

Draft sketch for a new mug design....

Little Red Riding Hood

In the very early stages of work on a series of illustrations for a collection of 're-imagined' fairy tales.  Today I've been developing the Red Riding Hood character.  "She had her hand on her knife at the first rustle of twigs....."

Wedding Illustration

I've been working on some sketches for a potential commission to illustrate a wedding, using for reference some lovely photos from Lillian and Leonard (http://lillianandleonard.blogspot.com/).  I'm very excited, this would be such a great project.  More to come over the next few days! 

Around the world

I thought I'd post the next step of the textile design.  There are still some tweaks to be made to the drawing - the Chrysler building is looking a bit odd and I'm not sure about using the continuous base line for example.  I'm looking forward to getting more colour on there too.

Textile Design

Today I've been working on drafts of a new textile design for Pip & Squeak.  More on this tomorrow.

What happened next?

I've been playing around with this idea some more today.  I'm not completely convinced that I've captured the action that I was hoping to but I am enjoying the look of the pencil drawing coloured up in photoshop.

Further development

I've been working on this drawing further, adding some details and playing around with different colours, fills and textures in photoshop.  Not quite there yet.

Character Development

I've been working through some ideas for a personal project today, this is the result.  More to follow soon!

On Safari

A little snippet of the latest iteration of my animal themed textile design for Pip & Squeak....

It's a water buffalo, not a pig.

Just a quick post of some animals that I've been working on today.  I was feeling particularly pleased with my water buffalo until my husband asked me why the pig had horns.  Whatever, he's still my favourite.  The water buffalo that is.

Skillz

Usually when using illustrator I import a hand drawn image and then trace and colour it.  It's become apparent that for the textile and wallpaper design project that I'm working on I'm going to need to be able to actually draw in illustrator, both to achieve the style that the client is looking for and to enable me to get the project finished on deadline.  So, yesterday I could not draw in illustrator,  today I can, and I'm pretty chuffed that I managed to figure it out all by myself so quickly!  

Interior Design

My musicians are destined to remain legless for the foreseeable future as I have been asked to work on some designs for wallpaper and textiles to be used in children's bedrooms.  It's a great project and I need to get busy.  Watch this space!

Musica!

I'm working on a series of designs around musicians.  I think the sketches are coming on nicely, even if nobody has any legs yet!

Lazy hazy days

I have been extremely lazy recently and haven't completed any personal illustration work or updated the blog in ages.  My excuse is that I have been busy with commercial work (and the full time job), which is all true, but I have also been slacking!  Added to that it is what passes for summertime here in Glasgow so the temptation to go out and meet friends and drink cider and generally enjoy the long evenings is great.  But I need to get back on message and back on the blog.  Today's post is a couple of illustrations I've been working on for an American client. 

Getting some 'me' time

It feels like ages since I've posted.  It is ages I suppose, 3 weeks!  How time flies.  I'm up the walls at the moment with work for other people so I'm not getting any time to work on personal projects.  I managed to squeeze in a rough start on my 'D' yesterday and am hoping to have some more time this week to get it finished and to start work on my 'E'.  I think you can probably guess where I'm going with this.....

C is for......

.....clown!  This idea is progressing quite well I think.  The colours still need some work but I'm pretty happy with the composition.  I'm pretty chuffed I actually got it this far today, I didn't think I was going to.  Now I'm going to settle down with the new Mike Leigh movie and try not to think about circusy things that start with D!

Can you guess what it is yet?

Preliminary sketches for the C in my alphabet.