The straight and narrow

This is an illustration for a poetry competition at Uni. It's not my best drawing, but I like the concept behind the drawing and you never know, if you dont enter you have no chance of winning so *fingers crossed!*

Heres the poem..

When the tall and bearded careers advisor
set up his stall and his slide projector,

something clicked. There on the silver screen,
like a photograph of the human soul,

the X-ray plate of the ten-year-old girl
who swallowed a toy. Shadows and shapes,

mercury tinted lungs and a tin foil heart,
alloy organs and tubes, but bottom left,

the caught-on-camera lightning strike
of the metal car: like a neon bone,

some classic roadster with an open top,
and a man at the wheel in goggles and cap,

motoring on through deep, internal dark.

The clouds opened up; we were leaving the past,

drawn by a star that had risen inside us,

some as astronauts, and some as taxi drivers.

She sees light and stars

I drew this little doodle when I was trying to figure out what to do for a college project. I really liked it so I tried colouring over it in photoshop as a rough sketch, I think its a cool idea and I want to try and do it properly when I have time because I could see it working as a nice illustration :)

I'm not quite sure if I want her to be holding fire or a star though..

The gorgeous work of Daniel Egneus

Daniel Egneus (my current favourite illustrator) has just published some new work on his facebook page that I thought I'd share with you.. I love his work so much and it always manages to inspire me :)

Double page feature for fashion magazine 'Velvet'

'Once upon a midnight dreary'

'The Elisabethan Giraffe'

You can check out the rest of his work here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=529535224

And heres his blog: http://www.danielegneus.blogspot.com/

Readers Digest illustrations

For our illustration application module at uni we had to come up with some illustrations for a Readers Digest article. Here are my two finals, I still need to work on the third one. I still think the tie one needs a lot of work, but I wanted to show what they looked like actually in the magazine :)

I draw faces the most

..but not on photoshop. I love drawing digitally, but its not what I'm used to or what comes naturally. I haven't drawn anything on there in a while (apart from the recent jellyfish) but today I just really felt like it and it actually turned out alright! Heres the stages I went through when creating it :)