Oh god it’s finally done! Took much longer than planned, but I’m very very happy with the result. It was frustrating to have to figure out how to make it look as tattoo-y as possible, because I might be an illustrator but I’m definitely not a tattoo artist.
It’s an excercice I really can recommend to you other illustrators and artists: limit yourself. choose a style and stick to it. Earlier I’ve done similar things where I’ve been trying to stick to an Art Deco style, and I had to stop myself from adding too much detail or too much shadows.
I added it to redbubble though I usually use cafepress for these sort of things, but it’s because I wanna buy a bunch of stickers myself! I hope the spray splashes will print all right on shirts though. I can’t guarantee anything. Does anyone have any experience with redbubble’s print quality? It’s a bit annoying that they desaturate the print like that, but I suppose there’s not much one can do about it.
ramble over! Hope you like it!
(via earlfoolish)
I’ve involved myself in a project where different artists each illustrate a chapter of Alice in Wonderland, and the whole book is to be released in the summer. I won’t post any sketches or finished works here, since I want to save it all for the release, but I thought I’d share this early sketch of my planned character design.
I’m sick of seeing Alice in frilly dresses and aprons. My Alice is a rather modern tomboy in dungarees and chucks, probably how I would dress my own children if I ever get any.
A cute little unicorn I drew for my sis, since what she wished for for christmas this year was anything related to unicorns and rainbows. I put this on a totebag, and she loved it to bits. I’m pretty damn happy with it too!
(if anyone’s interested, I’ve submitted the design to my cafepress shop. I am very seriously considering one of the mugs myself!)
Sherlock and John christmas card!
I know scarf sharing is pretty cliched but that doesn’t mean it isn’t painfully cute.
Mystrade christmas card! Inspired by “At Least There’s The Football”. Available for purchase here. (more christmas cards designs will be added, along with other products. I am currently reorganizing my shops)
Ridicule Is No Shame
This was inspired by an interview with Patrick Wolf in which he was asked if he had any guilty pleasures, and his answer was along the lines of that you shouldn’t ever feel guilty about anything that gives you pleasure. And it made me think so much of Ark’s messages of trusting your lust, being ridiculous without feeling shame, and letting your body decide - that I just had to make a music mashup in art format.
