Thursday 14 August 2014

Art: New Illustrations

I've spent a couple of days working on some new illustrations from last week's sketchbook drawings.
There's two new character designs, a building illustration and 2 pattern designs.


I've been wanting to do an illustration of Downton Abbey for quite a while, and this week I finally got round to it. I only discovered I enjoy drawing buildings when I was working on the castles for my Once Upon a Time project, and I really loved doing this one.


This is the second instalment of my new Flower Girls series, and of course it just had to be a giraffe.
The first image can be seen in this post, and there'll be more added to this collection soon.


I've also been planning for ages to work on some pattern designs. Last week I was watching My Fair Lady with mum and it became the inspiration for this pattern. A little way into the film there's a scene involving a Chinese fan and a bird cage, an along with Eliza's huge feathered hat I thought that would make for a pretty combination of items.


This is my submission to this weeks theme on Illustration Friday: King.
Based on my characters in Once Upon a time and the Flower Girl characters.


Another pattern, this time based on summertime, with strawberries, ice-cream cones, daisies and parasols.

I've been really enjoying producing work again, and have lots of plans for more designs in the near future!
I've also added some of these designs to my Society 6 and Art Rookie stores, so they're available to buy on a huge range of fun products!



Friday 8 August 2014

Snap Snap: 08/08/14

The last two weeks in photos.


- Adding pattern details to some illustrations.
- A lovely walk in the sun with these two. This has to be my favourite picture of the three of us <3
- My book on display at the Conningsby Gallery in London.
- Iced lattes in the sun.


- A beautiful Rifle Paper card from my cousins.
- Lots of drawing has been happening lately.
- Pretty flowers at the pub.
- Strawberry doodles

To keep up to date with what I'm up to, you can follow me on Instagram, here.

Thursday 7 August 2014

In my sketchbook: 07/08/14

This week, my sketchbook has been filled with all sorts of subjects. From fairy-tale castles and forest trees, to bird cages and floral fans (and lots of other things in between!). I'm having one of the times at the moment where I have too many ideas and not enough time to complete them. Before I get around to scanning in a drawing and colouring it and turning into what it was intended for, I've come up with another idea and have started drawing that too! Tomorrow I'm planning on trying to change that slightly and actually make a start on finalising some of these ideas. So look out over the weekend for pretty patterns, character portraits and fairy-tale maps!

Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration

I've also made a start on doing some of the drawings in my "642 Things to Draw" book.
I've stuck to the more simple prompts for now, but hopefully I'll get a little more adventurous with the ambiguous ones soon!

Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration
Emma Margaret Illustration

Back soon with some finished illustrations to show you!