Another quick update (still freelancing, need more time to draw but have to pay those bills!), here’s a little seasonal scene I did for the Proper English Academy in Osaka - two peas enjoying hanami. It was a bit of a rush job and I wish I could have spent a bit more time on it, but that’s life sometimes!
A little Valentines-themed illustration I did for the Proper English Academy. I’ll put up a few more loved-up peas soon :)
***UPDATE*** Added a couple more designs, some are a bit crap (the chocolate peas in particular) but I like to show the rubbish stuff sometimes, not everything turns out how you planned!
Once again I’ve been busy with advertising freelance so haven’t had as much time as I’d like for illustration - that said, I’ve been working on some more seasonally-themed characters for the Proper English Academy, the latest being for the festival ‘Setsubun’.
Enjoy :)
I’ve just finished a nice little freelance project for Clothes Aid, designing a new Wizard mascot for a new schools project their planning. I’ve already featured some of the early concepts for the character on an earlier post, but as well as creating the character a key illustration was needed to show that donated clothing turns into equipment for the schools - below are some of the stages and ideas I went through before reaching the final vector illustration (the very last image);
As always this tumblr them isn’t ideal for wide images, but hopefully you can get the idea anyway :)
As well as doing some more development work for Clothes Aid (images coming in the new few weeks) I spent today on this little illustration, just testing out some colouring texturing techniques;
I’m quite happy with it :) Hope you like it too!
Welcome to 2012 - the year where *hopefully* it’s all going to happen :)
I type this as I sit in a lovely shared office space I’ve got myself (as I found working from home too distracting), and I’m feeling really positive about the next 12 months. When I’m not freelancing to pay the bills I’ll be here working on my children’s books (and any other illustration projects that come my way).
I should be posting here at least one every two weeks, hopefully they’ll be some lovely images for you to see soon!
Cheers, Andy.
I’ve been doing some character designs for the charity clothing collection company Clothes Aid -here are some initial rough options for the wizard.
Talking of New Year peas, here’s a generic one I created. For those of you who have ever spent New Years in Japan will hopefully appreciate this!
On a side-note; I know there’s been a lot of pea-related posts recently, and some are asking about my books - well I’ve actually been doing a bit more writing and thankfully worked out a good narrative for one of my favourite character ideas, but I’d like to get the ‘Gorilla Project’ (see early blog posts for initial sketches etc) done first. And that’s what I’ve been slowly chipping away at this week :)
Hello all, thought I’d quickly show you a rough of another pea illustration, this time for New Year. 2012 will be the ‘Year of the Dragon’, so the Proper English Academy asked me to create a pea for their New Years stationary.
He is my first attempt (far from completion), but I realised while doing that the pea itself is quite obscured, which obviously isn’t ideal. PEA suggested that maybe using a dragon kite would be better (which I’m working on at the moment) but wanted to post this anyway as it’s still quite fun :)
