Album Cover Art - 'Our Slight Indulgence'

 

Hi folks! :)

Last year I've been commissioned to create some designs for an album cover plus its case.

It's finally available and I'm really happy with the completed end-product.

You can listen to all the songs, download them or even buy the album here.

It's the debut album of a young German band with a lot of talent and soul - I can only encourage you to show them some support. :)

My two copies arrived today and I'm going to share some photographs and some more of the artwork with you. Enjoy. ♥

 

 

 

Dragonfly Businesscards

Hello everybody!

Today I decided to finally create a new design for my businesscards. I was planning on doing this for so long and it feels so good to finally actually have done it. Also I'm really satisfied and think they represent my art quite well. Oh I love dragonflys, aren't they just the prettiest creatures out there?

A tattoo like that would actually be really cool I think...(not that I'd be brave enough to get one..)

So yeah, I'm just waiting for the prints to arrive and can't wait to see how they come out.

If you want one, simply commission me. :3

Anyway, here's some work in progress for you.

 

thumbnail sketches and pencil drawings

 Applying some colours, oh I just love to work messy like this, it's so liberating even though it looks really bad..:,D

 

The lineart really safe everything and keeps it together. It's kind of magical, to see how everything falls into the right place piece by piece and just...makes sense.

recreation

"And the earth turned blind, so she grew it eyes..."


Just a quick water colour illustration for my new facebook page. Add me there for more updates if you're interested. I think it's slightly easier to follow than blogger. :)

 

 

 

 

Character Design

These are the main characters of my story. Little frightened Amelia, haunted by nightmare monsters....

and the old, wise Indian guy...well it certainly looked like a guy in the initial sketch but now it looks more like an old lady doesn't it.....? :/
Oh well, it doesn't really matter anyway I guess..but would be interesting to know - What do you think? Man or Lady?

This project will be a lot experimenting with combining traditional and digital work. There is just something about those textures and layering aesthetic I absolutely adore but I still want to keep the handmade feeling of my work.

Little Girls and Nightmare Creatures

This is a character design for  my latest book project. I still have to change some bits but I'm actually rather in love with her already.
Plus some sketches of children.

I also did some Rorschach Printing to get inspiration for nightmare creatures. It worked surprisingly good and I had a well good time making them.

The Project is going well so far.♥

Snow Fairy - W.I.P. II

After a few more rubbish not so good attempts I would say this is the first time I produced a fairly good result with soft water colour washes...:) still needs improvement but I'm quite pleased. Memo to myself: alsways use a hundred times more water than pigments...it's not called water colour without reason.
Anyway, this is the final design of our fairy now. Lovely thing isn't she? Becca is going to make a clay version of her for our music box, can't wait to see that.
She's probably the only fairy without any wings...well, she allegorises a snowflake, falls from the sky and dissolves again through melting - what would she need wings for?

I also sketched all the 34 pages. Need to get started with the colouring now, we have to have the printversion next Friday..:/ I'm a bit scared to be honest, still not very confident..

snow fairy design

My task in our group is to illustrate the poem we were supposed to integrate in our exhibition piece.

I'm going to create a little book and did some character designs for the performing snow fairy today.

These are the first ones I came up with,
inspired by those things below.

 

I liked the skirt of the third one since I thought it could look like an actual snowflake when falling from the sky. So I did some further designs inspired by those cut out paper snowflakes we all used to create in preschool I guess.

This is how I imagine them falling from the sky.
Quite lovely aren't they?

This is how our box is supposed to look like by the way. I'm absolutely not involved in constructing it - I'm so crappy with wood working... I hope the others will do a great job. The book I'm creating will be reproduced and put in the drawer, so the customer can experience the box and everything within it and then take the book home as a souvenier.

I'm going to write and sketch the storyboard next.

Business cards

We created business cards today at College. This is what I came up with within those two hours...
I guess I like the one with the cat the most. I'll spend some more time experimenting and elaborating them though to come up with a pretty final design.
My boyfriend just told me that my number is wrong on them..argh. At least I don't have to worry about some dodgy people calling me now.:,D