Manchester United

It's a start...

...mid-drawing sideways view ahhh!!!...

...Finished drawing!...

...and FINISHED PIECE!

This is a recent commission I did, and thought I'd share photos of it from start to finish. I actually don't really like football, BUT, I really enjoyed this piece! This was an A5 drawing, and usually my pieces (or commissions) are A4. Even though I really like working on A4 or larger scales, I really love making smaller drawings. I think I enjoy them so much because I can finish them quicker and I guess I'm more energetic to get the drawing finished (?!) - did any of that just make sense?? Anyway, I think (and hope!) that that comes across in the drawings :) 
Do you prefer working on smaller or larger scale pieces?

If you're looking for a commission, send me a message through the contact page above :)

This week 07-09-14

Sneak peak of a commission I did this week!

Healthy lunch I had mid-week nom nom

Mockup I did this week to start next week!

Packing up an order today :)

Detox tea

Feeling a bit run down, lurgy or cold-y? How about giving this a try!

Last week (and the week before a bit) I was feeling really unwell, typical cold and run-down type symptoms - feeling very tired, headache, etc. I wanted to do something to help it go away - especially as I had work to do - so last week I started making some of this, and it has definitely helped! Well, it has for me anyway :)  All you need is -

~ Green tea
~ Juice from half a lemon (and a slice for decoration if you fancy!)
~ Teaspoon of honey

SO EASY! It tastes really nice too, like a hot lemony drink - not too bitter or too sweet. PLUS it has all the health benefits of green tea, lemon and honey in one - POIFECT!

This week 31-08-14

Sneak peak of the work I've been doing this week!

Started to read this #girlboss #yeah

Blackberries ready to be picked in the garden!

Souvenirs from Berlin

Last day of August/summer noooo! At least it's nice and sunny today, so after posting this I'm popping outside to make the most of the sun. 

This week has been very busy with some commissions again, (and feeling ill still boo hoo) but I finished what I needed to and this weekend I've been relaxing, ahhh! 

Out to the sun I go! Hwyl!

Work space inspiration

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No link for this image, unfortunately!

All images were found through Pinterest.
I have tried to link where the images are originally from, but if I've linked them incorrectly,
please let me know :)

Aren't these images amazing?! They definitely inspire me to decorate and tidy up my work-space, ahhh! I could easily spend all day on pinterest with all the pretty pictures that's on there. You can find me on pinterest here :)
 

This week 24-08-14

Workspace moved to the living room this weekend, working from the sofa!

Mockup of something I'm currently working on, can't reveal yet, ahhh!

Comfort eating - Nice bowl of pasta for lunch today :)

Recent commission of a personalised print

Not many photos this week as I've been a bit ill unfortunately (boo). I still have work to do, but late afternoon on Thursday I had to go lie down on the sofa with some tea (boo hoo!) So this weekend I moved my workspace to the sofa! I can't show much of what I'm working on at the moment - except that part of the mockup - but I'll have lots of finished pieces and #wip photos once they're finished. The last photo of the personalised commission wasn't from this week, but I did post photos of it up this week! Hehe!

Sketchbook 20-08-14

I have a new little sketchbook, so of course I'm trying to fill it up with little sketches as I used to do before. I thought I'd share some as I go along! Just did this little drawing today, using my new eco pencils (posh!), sharpies (AHHH!) and the new pierre noire pencil I wanted to try out. I really like that pencil, not sure if it really goes with this sketch, but I like the effect so I'll attempt a drawing using just that!

This week 17-08-14

Finished commission (before the colour!) I'll blog about its 'work in progress' and the finished piece soon.

Part of another little commission and its work in progress

This beautiful print by Emma Block is framed and ready to go up on my wall, yay! visit her work here

THIS. SMELLS. AMAZING! A little gift from my mum - Jo Malone wild bluebell hand & body wash.

...and celebrating my friends birthday with American food <3

What have you been upto this week?

New stationery eep!

Yay new stationery! I'm actually not a *massive* stationery person (compared with other illustrators/arty people I know anyway!), but every now and then I love having a little spree. I bought these over the past couple weeks, some Derwent eco pencils (my [arty-bit] for the environment), a pencil case to take with me on the go, sharpies (OMG 24 eep!) just because... and a pocket moleskine which I forgot to photograph oops! I also wanted to try out a charcoal pencil (?!) and a Pierre Noire pencil (???!!!), has anyone else tried these out? They're kind of similar, but the pierre noire is more like a black colouring pencil, and they're both handy for shading/dark bits in a drawing instead of getting that shine with pencil in photos and through the scanner. And that's it! Have you bought any new stationery recently?

Caernarfon - Caersaint #wip

(apologies for the poor lighting, it was on my old phone!)

I have been a TERRIBLE blogger, mainly because I always think that I should only post about work that I've done, without much text to it, not really sure why. This post doesn't really help my cause, but I have decided to just blog about whatever I fancy, and after this EPIPHANY (tad dramatic maybz) from reading Harriet of Hello Harriet's post (here), I came up with so many blog post ideas. So far today I've come up with - and saved as drafts - SEVEN blog posts (eight including this, say what!), and I've already written some of them too *shock horror*. It's a whole new world, of blogging that is. So as I will still be blogging about "Here's something I did earlier", that won't be the only  thing, and I'm already excited about future posts, yippee!

Anyway moving on to this current post! This is a recent commission I did for someone's retirement, so lovely that they thought of me to create special gift for them, and I hope they enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed creating it :)

Hwyl x

Comisiwn Castell Conwy // Conwy Castle Commission

Here's a commission I did recently of Conwy castle and its work in progress.

Dyma gomisiwn o gastell Conwy nes i yn ddiweddar, a'i 'brogress'!

Diner #wip

Dyma darn nes i yn ddiweddar, gwaith personol, dim ar gyfer dim byd na comisiwn i neb. On i'n hapus efo sut nath o droi allan, so dwi di dewis ychwanegu lliw idda fo. Unwaith fydda i di gorffen y lliw yn iawn dwi'n meddwl rhoi hein fyny fel prints yn siop fi... ella fel prints bach A5, gawn ni weld!

Here's a piece I made recently, just personal work, not for anything or anyone. I'm happy with how it turned out so I decided to add some colour into it. Once I've finished the colour properly, I think I'll put them up in my shop to sell as prints... maybe mini A5 prints, we'll see!

Segontium Terrace / Rhes Segontiwm

Dyma darn newydd dwi newydd orffen. Nes i neud y llun dipyn yn ol ond anghofio amdano tan i fi ffeindio fo cwpwl o wythnosa'n ol! So nes i ddewis i ychwanegu lliw idda fo o'r diwedd. Dwi'n hapus efo sut mae o wedi troi allan. Mae'r darn yma ar werth fel print A4 yn fy siop rwan!

Here's a new piece I've just finished. I did this piece a while back and forgot about it until I found it recently! So I decided to add colour to it finally. I'm happy with how it's turned out. This piece is now for sale as an A4 print in my shop!

Visit my shop here!

Mini drawings

Just over a month ago I received a message from my friend Emily, letting me know that she was using my artwork, drawings of the city, as inspiration for a series of lessons with her year 7, based on the built environment. They did some experimental monoprinting in response to my work too, and this is the result! Brilliant! :)

Caerdydd / Cardiff print

So this is my first post of 2014, oops! Oh well, never mind. I thought I'd just post something small up to start off with to catch up. I finished this piece of Cardiff city just before Christmas, and managed to get it up on my Etsy shop and sell some just before Christmas! Yippee! I'm really happy with how this turned out, I hadn't drawn anything on this large scale (original drawing is A2) for a while. I'm looking forward to drawing more large scale cityscapes, can you recommend the next city for me to draw?!

Hwyl x

You can buy the print here!

Cardiau Nadolig! Christmas Cards!

Ma Nadolig jyst rownd y gornel, aaa!!! A ma gen i set o cardiau Nadolig *newydd* flwyddyn yma efo'r arth wen, iei! Ma nw ar werth RWAN yn siop etsy fi (cliciwch fan hyn), ar gael mewn Cymraeg a Saesneg. Ydych chi'n ffansio pecyn onyn nhw? Anfonwch neges i fi a medrai roi pris arbennig i chi! P.S. Sgen i ddim llawer o'r cardiau Robin goch ar ol, felly os dachisho rhai, gadewch fi wbod asap!!

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Christmas is just around the corner, ahhhh! And I have a *new* set of Christmas cards this year with the polar bear, yay! They're for sale NOW in my etsy shop (click here), available in Welsh and English. Would you like a pack of them? Just send me a message and I can give you a special price! P.S. I don't have a lot of the Robin cards left, so if you want some, let me know asap!!

Hwyl x

Catch up!

Eek! I haven't blogged in such a long time! The main reason is I haven't really had much to blog about, it's been either 'work in progress' or work that I'm unable to show, waiting for things in the post (like the fabric, which HAS arrived now, yay!) just little things like that. But now all of a sudden, I have LOADS of things to blog about, so expect a lot of blog posts in the next few weeks! I thought I'd just make a little 'catch up' of what I've been up to in photos, and then in the next blog posts I can go more in depth with certain stuff (like the work in progress, I can show the finished piece!) So I'm off now to write new blog posts!

work in progress of a commission

adding the colour to a commission

work in progress of a commission

adding the colour to a commission

my first attempt at pumpkin carving this halloween!

making my illustration for a christmas card design

final version of christmas card before sending them off to get printed! available in my shop now :)

working on a new A2 cityscape of Caerdydd!

Hwyl! x

Fabric pattern making!

So this week has been busy workwise, the beginning anyway, so I don't have much to show drawing/illustrating wise! But, what I have been working on, or wanting, for a while is to print my own  designs on fabric. I finally took the plunge and ordered three designs this weekend from Spoonflower.com . I've ordered a yard of each design to start off with, so hopefully they'll turn out well :)

I decided to get two colourful bird patterns, one with a very pale pink background and the other on a white background. And for the third I decided to test out printing one of my cityscapes, and chose this one of a street in Paris. This is obviously not a pattern, but I thought I could cut image into tea towels, or cut square into a cushion cover, or make one of those small rectangle cushions. I haven't decided yet!! I can't wait for the fabric to arrive to start making things with them, eee!

Hwyl x

Comisiwn newydd a'i ddatblygiad // New commission and its progress

Dwi'n rili hapus efo sut mae'r comisiwn yma wedi troi allan. Dwi'n licio y font gwahanol a fel bod o mwy laid back rhywsut efo lle mae'r sgwennu a petha! On i'n meddwl fyswni'n dangos datblygiad y comisiwn hwn o'r dechrau i'r darn terfynol wedi'i fframio. Gobeithio bod chi'n licio!

p.s. Diwrnod o blaen nath siop etsy fi (cliciwch yma!) gael dros cant ymwelydd mewn diwrnod, a nes i werthu tri eitem o fewn 24 awr! Ella di hynna ddim yn swnio'n lot i rhai, ond mae o'n lot i fi!

Os ydach chi efo diddordeb mewn comisiwn, croeso i chi anfon neges ata fi am fwy o wybodaeth :)

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I'm really happy with how this commission has turned out. I like the different font used and it seems more laid back somehow with how the text is placed and stuff! I thought I'd show my progress of this commission from beginning to end with it framed. I hope you like it!

p.s. The other day my etsy shop (click here!) received over a hundred visitors in a day, and I also sold three items within 24 hours! Maybe that doesn't seem like a lot to some, but it is to me!

If you're interested in a commission, feel free to message me for more information :)

Hwyl x

New A3 prints!

Yay! Today I've been adding A3 prints of my large cityscapes into my etsy shop, click here.
Which includes the above one of a colourful street in Paris, I also have some A3 prints of Moscow, Prague, Dublin and Seville.

I'll also be putting up more stuff in my etsy shop over the next few weeks, yipee!

Hwyl x