My ace friends Ken and Jenna got married last week, and asked me to illustrate their table plan and table signs. Their theme was spliced names as they are known as Kenna so I had a lot of fun drawing Brangelina, TomKat and a few others, as well as the lettering for their table plan.

Congratulations Kenna!

So a card I illustrated a million years ago has it’s own video- welcome to the 2010’s people!

Cara Delevingne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian

Poster for schools

Using internet to find facts

Headers for website

At the library

Recording info

Part of the brief was also to take dry infographics and turn them into something a bit more exciting for kids- the above is the old one, and below is my version.

Well, here are my Filofax Flex drawings. Not so much a diary of a day, as some notes on Japan (aren’t foreign places different!!!!!). The planner was incredibly useful when I was away, and the paper is a dream to draw on and takes my marker pens well. As you can imagine, Japan was brilliant and I am glad I have this little visual reminder of all the fun things I saw and did. There will be lot’s more illustrators getting involved in the challenge, including my talented pal Kate Hazell, (I’ll post the Filofax link as soon as I have it).
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Filofax have asked me to be part of their blogger drawing challenge, and it couldn’t have come at a better time- I’m off to Japan tomorrow…Huzzah! The A5 organiser they sent me has a perfect ‘list’ notebook, and has prevented at least two ‘WHERE IS MY PASSPORT/BOARDING PASS/INSURANCE DETAILS?!’ moments so far, so in my eyes is total holiday genius.

The challenge is to fill a page with drawings that represent my life as an illustrator in a day, and even though hanging in Japan is a far cry from my real day-to-day life, I can’t wait to record all the ace things I’m going to see. Especially the food- I cannot wait to try real proper everyday japanese sushi and noodles. I’ve even got a class booked to learn how to make sushi, so here’s hoping after that, I have enough fingers left to complete the challenge!

I will also be doing a give away of 2 A5 Filofax Flex’s later in the month, so keep your eyes peeled.
Sayonara!
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Went to the British Museum, and was there for about 2 hours and managed to see tonnes of ace stuff but barely scratched the surface of what’s there. This is a drawing of a stone engraving of a protection spirit from Nimrud, 865-860BC. It boggles my puny mind thinking about how old it is.

Then we went to the Huntarian Museum, where among other gruesome, but incredibly interesting science stuff there was a hen that had a human tooth grafted onto it’s head.

3 generations of male lions

A selection of spreads from a sticker greetings card/book from Cardoo Cards, out 2013!

Glasgow top, Edinburgh bottom.

The pheasant pun gets one more outing…

Some work for the Geronimo group of pubs.