News and news

Firstly, I have some fantastic news - I've just confirmed my very first picture book deal!
Really exciting, it's a story called 'The Flyaway Blanket' to be published by Magination Press in America.  Looking forward to sinking my teeth into a juicy few months of character design, storyboarding and illustrating! It'll be lots of work but so worth it.


Other news!


You can now buy prints, laptop skins, ipad/iphone/ipod covers and canvases of my illustration work in my shop.

Postcards!

My new postcard prints have arrived!

I ordered 60 of the they'll be flying their way across the globe soon.

Norwegian Wood

This illustration is for the new film adaptation of the Haruki Murakami novel 'Norwegian Wood'.

Prints are available in my online shop https://www.emmelineillustration.etsy.com

If you haven't heard of Murakami you should really have a read of some of his stuff, it's truly brilliant writing.

My design was selected as a finalist for the Don't Panic / Soda Pictures poster design competition. You can see it exhibited at the Curzon Cinema - Soho for the next few weeks!

Together

Hi everyone! I've just released a couple of new illustrations.

The first was an entry to the Art of Nurture competition, inspired by the theme 'We succeed together'. I particularly like the little chap with the binoculars.

On the right, I painted this as a super-happy-bonus-prize for my 500th follower on Twitter.  @AllThingsEla is an avid reader and loves cherry-blossom trees (just like me) so I thought that this would be a great gift.

I have some good news too!

You'll be able to see my work in the upcoming Spring issue of Anorak Magazine, hurray!

I've wanted to work with Anorak for a long time, and I'm really excited to do so.

I hope you're all okay! Come and say hello sometime.

People having fun!

Hello, how are you all? 

I've worked hard this week and I have three illustrations to show you!

I've been gauging my work to show children interacting with their environments, this first piece is inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen Hansel and Gretel story and the other two remind me of my childhood :-)

In other news! I won the All-Tropical t-shirt competition and a nice little bit of prize money along with it - so thankyou to all of you who supported me and voted!

Just to let you know, I've set up a Facebook page for my illustration work now too - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emmeline-Illustration/105578452853619

Hansel and Gretel

Hello you lovely, yummy, nice people.

I'm feeling quite excited because I've just this second finished a new illustration.

It's inspired by the Hansel and Gretel fairytale, there are already hundreds of interpretations of the story but it's good to have the challenge of making it my own!

Let me know what you think of it!

Cats and Kites

Hello! I've missed you!
How are you?


This is a slightly special post in that I may ask you a favour...
Now I'm not normally one for e-begging, but I'm feeling especially competitive and I'd really like to win something for once.

This is a T-Shirt design I've made for the website www.alltropical.co.uk , it's a community based design site where you submit t-shirt designs, have 7 days of voting, and the design with the most comments/votes/reblogs/retweets/likes on facebook wins £150 and their design on a shirt. 


So please please help me out by clicking HERE and being really nice, even if you just share the link.


Thankyou!
Have a lovely day x

May 2011 present you with much prosperity and good times.

Tales of Adventure

Just a quick hello today (I'm busy being in a onsie and drinking tea).

I thought I'd show you my freshly painted illustration called 'Tales of Adventure'. 

It's loosely based on my boyfriend and his love* of books.

Note the cool toys on the shelf, I had most of those when I was little - yeaah Stegasaurus!

Well, have a nice evening blog-looker-atters

*obsession

Autumn turning into Winter

Hello lovely people!

I hope the winter's not too chilly for you.

I have two paintings to show you today.

Yes! Paintings! I've mostly been drawing in ink and digitally colouring recently (due to lack of a scanner).  But for these, I dusted off my gouache paints and slopped them onto paper to warm your eyes.

I'm proud of the autumny one, I think it's one of the best illustrations I've done.  What do you think?
I hope you like them.


If you're on Tumblr, I have an account there now too!  It's mostly for images I like to feed your imaginations rather than my work (which this blog is for).  If you are on Tumblr then please recommend me for the illustration directory too! 
www.tumblr.com/directory/recommend/politics/emmelinedraws




Have a nice week!

Happy November Time!

Hello everyone! It's been a while, I hope you've all been having a great time.


This is a bit overdue, but I like it and I want to show you.  
These are my design sketches for my halloween pumpkin! (yeah, see I told you...overdue!)

Now for something up to date and EXCITING!

Recently, Miff Weaver, James Burlinson and I decided to collaborate with our pencil skillz (yes with a Z) and illustrate a portrait of each other.  Our names were put into a tiny hat and picked who we'd draw.

This is my illustration of James

See Miff's drawing of me here

See James' drawing of Miff here

(also go and see http://cargocollective.com/miffweaver and http://www.flickr.com/photos/burlisaurus/ and it'll make your day)

As a extra time super fun bonus here's the drawing of Jackie Chan from the collab illustration, but bigger and with better colours!

Ooh! Some other quite nice news...I've been written about on the wonderful Ellie BellieKids blog.  It's got a little interview bit and images from my Clouds and Weather Systems book (remember that one?) 

Have a read here and have a look at the really fun children's things on EllieBellieKids.com here

So then my lovelies, have a wonderful time until my next update when I'll wish you a lovely time again.

Come and say hello to me on twitter @emmelinedraws making friends is nice.

A feast for the eyes!

Hey guys,


I'm writing this now as a way of taking a break from pumpkin carving.
'Why?!' you ask!
'Why would you tear yourself away from such an awesome event?!'
Well, I just accidentally stabbed my wrist with a scalpel, not badly, but it scared me alot seeing as during my last major scalpel incident I sliced the tip of my thumb off in uni and had to go to A&E (I have a bit of a thing about wrists/viens etc too) so I felt woozy and as everyone knows, when you feel woozy - update your blog.


I have quite alot of visualiez to show you today!
I'll start by serving you the delicious starter of a potential cover (competition entry) for the online magazine Brikolage.
http://www.brikolage.co.uk/


The title of the next issue is Old Age, and the cover needed to be inspired by Rossco Galloway.

It was lots of fun to draw many many dancing old people. 

Even if I don't make the cover the illustration will be in the magazine, so look out for a posting in the future!

Now! The main course of three illustrations I've done this past week for Amelia's Magazine.


These first two are for an article about the Museum of Everything in London, from the title I suppose you can tell that there's alot of interesting stuff there, and you'd be right!
These two illustrations represent just a couple of things you can see there, sideshow posters and lots of cool doll things! ace!

[view article here: http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/art/museum-of-everything-a-review-of-exhibition-3/2010/10/28/] 

Apparantly the snake lady is me, but I digress, I don't have ANY snakes - so there.

This next illustration is also for Amelia's Magazine, showing off the extravagant make up of Alex Box.

[view article here: http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/fashion/future-beauty-at-the-barbican-beauty-party/2010/10/28/ ]

It's a slightly different style for me! Well it was for a fashion article... I'm rather happy with it :) What do you think?

Okay! Dessert time - yeaaah.


This is just a little doodle I did a while ago when I didn't really realise I was drawing. I quite like it so I thought I'd show it to you. I hope you like it too!

Well, that's all I've got for you in my bag today lovelies.

Have an amazing Halloween! (p.s. what are you dressing up as?)