Hand lettering and particularly brush lettering, is such a trend at the moment (and has been for a little while now) that I am really glad I started paying attention and spent a little time learning and practicing this skill
Hand Lettering
Children’s book character development for MATS Bootcamp 2016
Our June assignment for MATS bootcamp was to create a vicuña themed page for a children’s book, focusing on showing various poses and expression for a character, and could include related items. Below are some of my initial “mini” sketches exploring and
NEW: You can now shop my patterns on Spoonflower
My Transkei inspired pattern is now available for purchase on Spoonflower! A couple of weeks before my nephew was born I had this idea to make a Transkei themed pattern for a baby blanket for him. My sister and I grew
MATS Illustration Bootcamp 2016
A few months ago I signed up for an illustration boot-camp run by Make Art That Sells . It’s basically a five month class with one “mini” and one “main” assignment every month. The “minis” are preparation/introductions to the theme from
My art portfolio website is finally up!
This website has been on my to-do list for a very, very long time. Any freelancer will be able to relate: personal projects always come second to client work, if they ever get done at all! Those that know me,
Book Illustrations
This year, I have been lucky enough to be involved in two really fun illustration projects. The first project was interior/exterior illustrations for The Stack; while the second project was children’s book illustrations for Antony Moller’s book Nkosi Uchakide Finds The Truth. Once
WordPress Website Tweaking: Before and After
Something I do quite a lot of these days is tweak the designs of websites which already exist. Most of the requests I get are for WordPress sites that require small changes or some minor customisation just to make them