I love children’s books, and how they use illustration to tell stories. Because of this I try to step out observational sketching, into drawing from imagination. I enjoy creating illustrated characters – both humans and animal and make them spring into action. There is so much to explore and so much to learn!
I mostly work with pen, ink and watercolours. More recently I learned to put hand-drawn elements together on the computer. It offers more flexibility as you can play with scale and layout and now I really enjoy working that way too.
I combine my interests in storytelling, illustration, hand lettering with my love of cooking to create hand drawn illustrated recipes (check those out on my illustrated recipes page).
Discover a set of Christmas illustrations I created to help promote the Christmas film programme of the Square Chapel – a local cinema and arts centre. It features film stars!
Here are some illustrations I was commissioned to draw for the Square Chapel’s 30th anniversary. A cover illustration of the historic Halifax building and a page illustrating the story of the Arts Centre.
Find out about a small hand illustrated map of Halifax I created for our local Nestle factory.
Check out ‘Get Spicy’ a hot new recipe book by They Draw and Cook that features one of my illustrated recipes.
I decided to follow Lisa Cogdon’s daily drawing challenge in September… Here are the results!