Illustration Show

Mark your calendars, folks!

These are things I am 'into' recently.

folk art is nice!
from the art found out blog:

And Galliformes are also nice:

inkytips updates

i now have my portfolio on cargo collective!
Alana Kerr Illustration

I edited the CSS of the layout a little bit; in the process I tried out Google Web Fonts for the first time. It's easy to use, free, and a lot of fun.
Google Web Fonts

Grimm's fairy tales cover

i think i am not done. wallpaper in the background, instead of solid red? will that look too busy?

In 'One Flew Over.." Research...

Celilo Falls

Heartbreaking, the real story that inspired Kesey to write Bromden's.

i need to stop researching and actually draw this now...

grimm's fairy tales work-in-progress

the one with the bear has an ink smudge. i wanted to die when that happened. but then i remembered that Photoshop exists. what did Aubrey Beardsley do when his ink smudged?

the idea is that these will be framed pictures hanging on a wallpapered wall, which will be the cover for the book. the frames for the brothers will have their names on them, since the brief requires the cover to say 'by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.' so there will be lettering involved.

this is for the Penguin & Puffin book cover competition. I am also doing the other brief for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and it's one of my favourite books. Ironically, that is making it very frustrating for me. I don't know how many different versions I've come up with, how many times I've scrapped one idea to try another and realise it looks like crap. I now have a vague idea of what I think I will end up doing, something that will represent the many layers of the story. I know it's probably not a good idea to cram too much into a book cover. but when the text is precious to you, it's hard not to want to! it's such a good book, that can be read in so many different ways...so my tutor says i seem to be taking a different 'intellectual' approach. i found that flattering. cool word, intellectual. but it's been kinda painful trying to get it right. i think i mentioned earlier that the Lucian Freud archive exhibition was inspiring. keeping motivated is important. the past week I've just put it on the back burner, though, and have just been fooling around with these Grimm drawings, which is just fun because I'm not emotionally invested in making it PERFECT.

I need to realise that i'm never going to think it's perfect. I just need to do the best I can. that's all you can do, that's what you can be proud of.


the deadline for these book covers is 19th April. a couple weeks left. i work way too slowly. seriously. i like detail. but mostly i just tend to stop and think and look at what i'm doing a lot. the coffee/tea/cigarette/toilet breaks ever hour don't help either. if only i could be a disembodied mind with only extendable arms to draw with.

right. okay.

pick me up

this was certainly worth the ticket price. there were a couple illustrations i was really enthralled with. there were also the usual really 'trendy'-looking things.

i loved these polish-design-inspired screenprint posters by Zeloot:

And Riikka Sormunen's personal illustrations of lounging girls:



So, my dissertation topic is Anthropomorphism. it's not hard to find that in illustration today. there was a lot of it there. i'm definitely going to be posting more on THAT in the future.

now i have to finish drawing this fox with nine tails.