A Garden Party

This was my little sister's birthday card this year. I almost always draw her a Spring flower fairy, since Spring flowers are one of her favourite things, but this year I was inspired by some strange illustrations of personified flowers from the late 19th century and tried something a little different.

Plants etc.

I realised I never posted these diagrams I drew last year! I've been working on some non-fiction illustrations to expand my portfolio.

Maroon Flower

A miniature painting I included with a notebook sale recently, by way of apology for a shipping delay.

Windflower

I heard my Grandma has shingles, so I whipped up a get-well-soon card for her. I hope it cheers her up until she feels better.

These... may not be the most botanically accurate windflowers I've ever drawn...

Blackthorn

Cropped out of the cover of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf? Spring 2014.

What's the Time, Mrs Woolf? Spring 2013

This is my cover for the Spring 2013 issue of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf?, with and without the tracing paper overlay. We didn't set a theme this time, so I decided to go with a wolf (our mascot) and some Spring flowers (specifically wood anemones).

We took this issue to Bristol Expo last weekend and sold quite a few copies, so I'm quite happy with the cover. It seemed to catch people's eyes.

I've also started putting What's the Time, Mrs Woolf? up in my etsy shop.

Happy Easter!

I doubt there are many people who follow me here exclusively, but if you're wondering why updates are a little sparse it's because I wanted this blog to have fewer doodles and sketches, which are all I've had time for lately. If you're interested in such things, it might be better to follow me on tumblr.

Also here is a poem about Colt's Foot that I remember from school:

'I love Coltsfoot that they

Make their appearance into life among dead grass;

Larches, that they

Die colourfully among sombre immortals.'

Google informs me it's by David Constantine, which is weird as I always remembered it being written by a woman.

journal pictures and upcoming events

These are the other half of the journal pictures from that horrible notebook. The next one I used was much nicer. I seem to have drawn a lot of plants and animals instead of people.

Also, these are events I am going to in Autumn! Inspired Comics will be at:

London MCM Expo - 26th-28th October 2012

Thought Bubble - 17th - 18th November 2012

Come and buy our comics, and see how little I resemble my self-portraits!

present tags

Since I had very little time to prepare for the farmer’s market this Saturday, I decided to do some more originals to sell instead of trying to make a comic or a book.

These sets of six are tags for presents, they’re threaded with red embroidery thread now, but my camera is out of battery so I can’t take a photo. 

The top set are my favourite spring flowers. The bottom set are based ontsukumogami, an item in japanese folklore. Supposedly when a tool or belonging reaches 100 years of service, it gains a soul and moves around the house.

I’ll also have free mini-comics and mini-zines to give out, the latest issue of What’s the Time Mrs Woolf, and a few copies of Science Fiction Octuple Feature and Eat Me! from Inspired.