Pocket Wren Launch

After what has seemed like forever I have finally launched my shop, Pocket Wren, on Etsy! It's my excuse to create things I love, I hope you like them too!

I've been working away in my spare time for the last few months creating lots of lovely things to sell. So far I have only had chance to upload a few items to my shop but there is definitely lots more to come! I'll do my best to add lots more goodies and keep you posted. In the meantime please take a look and let me know what you think at

Pocket Wren

Whiskers

Thought this image of these two rather romantic cats complete with whiskers glinting in the moonlight would fit this weeks Illustration Friday topic.

The image was one of several images featuring cats that I created with the greetings card market in mind. I thought this one could make a nice Valentines day card. A few months early, I know, but a little bit of romance can't be a bad thing can it?

Zoom!

My entry for this weeks Illustration Friday topic 'Zoom'. 

This is a character I developed for a series of children's board books. He is the fastest baby animal on the farm and he loves nothing more than having a race with all his farmyard friends...even if some of them might need a lift!

I have taken several pages from the book and with a bit of tweaking created this single image I thought I would try and show the foal doing what he does best. So here he is zooming around the farm.

The images were coloured and refined from my original pencil sketches in Illustrator and combined and edited using Photoshop.

Pocket Wren

Thought I'd better update my blog, I have not posted for a while as I've been so busy. I seem to have a lot going on at the moment! 

One of the things that is keeping me occupied is getting things ready so I can launch my online shop. I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere. I now have a name, 'Pocket Wren' and I've created my logo design, of which there is a sneaky peek below. So I feel a step closer at least. I've still got a little way to go organising things though but I will be sure to let you know when things are up and running!

The Shy Monster

I tried to go for a bit of a switch round for this weeks Illustration Friday topic 'Shy' hence the rather shy monster emerging reluctantly from the little girls closet. This is a new illustration produced just for fun and was done straight into Illustrator.  

Haunted.

This weeks topic on Illustration Friday is 'Haunted'. So I thought I'd get on board with the Halloween spirit and post an entry. 

This is a combination of images taken from a pop up children's board book I did the illustrations for. In the story the ghosts are all playing hide and seek with each other, all searching for the perfect hiding place. Below is a picture of the finished book.

This series of books included 'It's party time!' and 'It's circus time!' which I also did all the artwork for.

Birds at dusk.

I've been pretty busy this week and have neglected my blog a bit so I thought I'd better take a break and post a new image. So here it is!

I really like drawing birds and I had a lot of fun filling in the patterns and details on these guys. It started life in my favourite sketch book as a black line drawing. I then did a watercolour wash for the background and combined the two in Photoshop. Then followed many hours of tweaking and tidying up. It took a few attempts over several different days to settle on the colours and get it just how I wanted it.