The Deadwood Stage!!!!!

This is one of those times where I had no intentions of drawing anything specific, I was just doodling whilst waiting for Photoshop to open numerous large files. I just happened to have Calamity Jane, another of my favourite musicals on my ipod and ended up sketching this rather attractive version of Calamity.

There's something about sketches that I find more interesting than finished images, in sketches you can see the construction of the image and how the illustrator refined the picture.

Anyway enough rambling, back to work for me :-)

Nelson 'N' Deck Adventures

After months of secrecy and hard work behind the scenes, the new children's book I have illustrated is ready for the shelves! Nelson 'N' Deck was a real pleasure to work on, the scenes of London were particularly tricky and time consuming but as they needed to be spot on it was time I needed to spend. The author Chris Gillott sent me a lovely testimonial.

"Stacey has been an absolute dream to work with. From the very first time I explained my project and artwork concepts and requirements with her - she has delivered way above my expectations. My brief was for Stacey to deliver some stunning full colour illustrations to compliment the book I had written, "Nelson 'n' Deck and Friends: How the Adventures Began". This is the first in a series of children's books I have published with the aims of making London fun for kids, educating them about all London has to offer all year round, and to help children's charities with the profits from the book. Stacey listened to my specific ideas for the styles I wanted and came up with loads of brilliant suggestions too. As you will see from the book cover artwork she has done an amazing job on not only the cover, but on all the images within the book (over 20!) for which I am eternally grateful. I also got Stacey to design my corporate logo as well for Star789 Limited. She is a totally undiscovered talent (although she is getting a lot of exposure now!) and I really look forward to continue working with her on the follow-up books in my series. All I can say is whatever your illustration needs are, give her a call and ask her to work for you - you will be more than delighted with the results!"

Chris Gillott
Owner - Star789 Limited
Author of the - Nelson 'n' Deck and Friends -series of books
www.nelson-n-deck.co.uk

You can buy the book by visiting the web address above and following the links.

I'd Do Anything Part 2

Finally got it finished. Really pleased with it as well. I think it works because of the costumes and stuff. I might do more show pictures, next one is pirates of penzance so hopefully ther'll be some great pics!

Down the rabbit hole

I drew this picture of Alice falling down the rabbit hole One lunchtime at work. I needed to draw something cause i was having one heck of a day!

It was done straight from memory so I'm quite happy that I got the proportions right etc. I got bored when it came time to colouring the teapot and stuff, maybe I'll go back at a later date and edit it.

Also not entirely happy with Alice's face. It's nice to do a full scene, especially one from such an iconic film, and also one that I love!

Argh these stuuupid markers!

Well I've had another outing with 'the markers' and I think i'm getting the hang of them slightly, I'm happier with Tink's hair but I'm still strugling with blending the colours properly. I've seen people use coloured pencils as well as the markers to add highlights and shadow and make it pop more so I might give that a try.

I'm actually quite pleased with watercolour effect on this Tink drawing, not so much with her dress although the shadows and stuff are clearer on the original, my cruddy scanner has messed them up.

Well I suppose I can keep watching tutorials lol, hopefully I'll master them eventually!

My new markers!

I've been toying with investing in some Tria markers for a while now and since I got some money for my birthday I decided to bite the bullet and give them a whirl.

Here is the first image I've ever coloured with Tria. The jasmine was drawn from memory so she's not perfect and I still need to work on the highlights, especially in the hair, but all in all I think I did okay for a first go!

If anybody has any tips on using these kind of markers it would be great to hear them!

Feed Me!!

Feed me Seymour!! I was inspired whilst listening to the soundtrack for 'Little Shop of Horrors'. The famous scene where Seymour discovers it's blood Audrey 2 needs to grow.

One of my favourite musicals :-)