Mr. Bear

Continuing with my Animal Portraits series, today I'm sharing Mr. Bear (wearing his favourite stripy jumper of course!)

I think I'll illustrate Mrs. Bear next, and maybe Baby Bear too! What do you think?

Ginnie the Giraffe

Last week I shared an illustration of Priscilla the Peacock, and mentioned I'd probably be creating a new series of animal portraits in the same style.

Of course it wouldn't be right not to include my favourite animal in that series, so here's Ginnie the Giraffe!

Next up will be a bear, and a deer. Any other animals you;d like to see from me?

The Boy and the Wolves

Its been quite a few weeks since I illustrated one of the stories from my Fairytales from around the World book! Today I've created an illustration for The Boy and the Wolves. This is a pretty short and not too cheery tale of a boy who is abandoned by his siblings after his father's death, left to live in the woods and slowly turns into a wolf as a result! ( I did say it wasn't very cheery!)

So I've illustrated the boy becoming a wolf and becoming a part of the forests surrounding him:

I've got a few more fairytale illustrations lined up so hopefully it won't be as long this time until the next one!

Priscilla the Peacock

Last week I hit a bit of a creative block between projects and couldn't decide what to do next. So I decided to just draw the first thing that came to mind, which happened to be a peacock!

I'd been really pleased with the how the character design for my A Little Princess series had worked out, with the faint pattern in the background instead of just white. So I've used a similar style here and I love how its turned out.

I think I'll be using this style to create a new series of animal portraits (this might possibly tie in with my #the100dayproject drawings too) so look out for those soon!

British Butterfllies

You might have seen on Instagram that I've been drawing a few butterflies lately. Rather than leave them in the sketchbook I thought I'd turn them into a poster of British Butterflies.

I've got quite a few recent illustrations that I'm planning to get prints of for my Etsy shop, so hopefully this will be available soon!

Mother & Baby Bear

A couple of weeks ago I had a couple of hours to spare so I sat down and did some drawing with no specific aim in mind. The result was this scene of a mother and baby bear in a leafy mountain scene.

I played around with the colours quite a few times on this one before deciding on this palette.

This was a fun illustration to create and made a nice change from the fairytale and classic story inspired pieces I've been working on (more to come next week!)

Penny the Parakeet

Penny the Parakeet

I know I keep mentioning the new colouring books! I promise they are on their way and will be in the shop soon. Penny the Parakeet is one of 4 birds that will be in the new edition of Animal World. I'll be continuing to share coloured versions of the images of the next few weeks as colouring inspiration for once they're available!

Bonnie the Bear

Bonnie the Bear.

Bonnie is another of the animal illustrations that will be appearing in the new Animal World colouring book.

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This is another illustration inspired by one of my pieces of work from a few years ago. I came across some old illustrations a little while ago and decided to give them a bit of an update to fit with my current style. 

I'll be adding lots of new prints to the shop as soon as possible (along with the new colouring books and some new greetings cards!)

 Here's a few close ups of the elephants:

Gina the Giraffe

Gina the Giraffe is another of the illustrations that will be appearing in the second edition of my Animal World colouring book. I'll be sharing coloured versions of each of the images as previews of the book, and as some colouring inspiration once they're for sale!

Paisley the Panda

I've got another sneak peek of one of the new colouring books today.

Paisley the Panda will be appearing (minus the colour) in the second edition of Animal World, which is due to be finished by the start of April.

Zizi the Zebra

I've been busy drawing lots of animals lately for one of my new colouring books (see some of the sketchbook drawings here)

Obviously when they go into the colouring book they'll be black and white line drawings, but I thought I'd give a few of them some colour to see how they look, and give you a little sneak peek here on the blog!

So here's Zizi the Zebra:

I'll share a few more of these as I put the books together. I'm hoping to have them ready for any Spring markets I take part in.

In my Sketchbook: 10/2/16

After a few weeks of being less productive than I'd have liked (blame a nasty cold and lingering lack of motivation!), this week I decided to try and make some real progress on some new products. I'm designing some new colouring books* including a new, larger and better second edition of my Animal World design. This one will be A5 sized with 24 pages (thats twice as big as the old versions!)

So for the last couple of days I've been filling sketchbook pages with various animals ready to go into the colouring book! I've got a list of animals I'd like to include but I'm happy to hear any suggestions!

Here's some sketchbook pages from the week so far:

*I'm also working on a second edition of Positive Thoughts, and possibly something fairytale and/or nature themed too!

New Illustration: Sleepy Cats

I have another new illustration to share today.

This idea started as just a cat sitting on an armchair. However during the process I ended up with a page full of sleepy cats in my sketchbook, so I decided to include them all and grew the image to be more of a living room scene. 

I've got quite a few more new illustrations to share with you over the next few weeks, and I'm also working on a few private commissions. As always I'll be sharing some little sneak peeks of everything I'm working on over on instagram (@emmamargaretillustration)

(PS. if you are on Instagram, don't forget to enter my giveaway to win a selection of products from my shop!)

New Illustration: Entwined

I have lots of new illustrations on the go at the moment. Just as I get near to finishing one piece I keep getting distracted by a new idea! My sketchbook is filling up nicely with lots of new work that I will hopefully get finished and ready to share here in the next few weeks (the Fjords illustrations should be ready soon!)

To begin with, here's my newest illustration, 'Entwined'.

Over & over: Giraffes

Seeing as Giraffes have been  my favourite animal for as long as I can remember, it surprised me the other day when I realised I had barely used them in any of my work. Obviously I had to fix this right away, so I've made a new pattern filled with them!

I'll be back tomorrow with this week's Illustration Friday post!

New Illustration: Fairytales

Some of the new products I'm working on have required me to revisit my old Once Upon a Time project and create some new illustrations with the characters.

Today I've been working with Snow White, Rapunzel, The Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.

These images will look quite different when they're made into a final product, as they won't contain any colour! These 4, along with 6 others are going to be made into a Fairytales colouring book. I'm also working on ones with Animal, Pattern and Quote themes. All of the designs will be launched at a craft fair next month (more on that later this week!)

Over & over: More Fabric patterns!

This week I'm sharing the other two patterns that I designed to have printed onto fabrics for some new products.

These ones are filled with fun animals, and banners with positive sayings.

The fabrics have now arrived, and I've made a start on a variety of new products, including card holders and hanging ornaments. Hopefully they'll be ready to share soon!

New Illustration: Dolly Dog

Whilst I've been working on all the new card and fabric designs, I haven't taken much time to illustrate just for the sake of illustrating, to make new work just because I want to. I've decided to try and change this now, starting last week with a new dog illustration.

Woof!

Over & over: Panda panda

I decided to do another animal themed pattern this week, as I enjoyed doing last week's bunny one!

This time I took a bit of inspiration from a #tbt picture I posted on Instagram last week featuring an old sketchbook drawing of a Panda from 2012, and I went with Pandas as my theme for this pattern (with the addition of bamboo and a baby Panda!).