Month: Nov 2022

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Guide-book Illustration

Northenden’s Historic Guide-book was commissioned by Now-Forever Heritage CIC after I won their “village by the river” competition in 2019. My responsibilities on this project were illustrating past and present buildings along-side designing the guided walk’s map. This commission involved lots of archival research, tracking down images and memories of demolished buildings so I could illustrate them for the book.

The illustrations and map were produced through a combination of sharpie’s and digital, producing marker drawings and base map then re-working on digital programmes such as photoshop to clean up and finalise ready for publishing.

This was a fab project working closely with the wonderful lead project co-ordinator Stephen Evans, organising daily meetings, mapping out the journey and walking the routes during its development. I am still elated to have collaborated on this and even more excited to have been credited co-author for such a substantial contribution. I hope to do more for different local areas.

Thanks again to Stephen Evans & Now-Forever Heritage CIC for involving me on this project 🙂 I’m excited for the book launch! 🥳

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Portrait Drawing

I have been keeping a sketch book to practice figure and portrait drawing for some of my commissions, i had never been much good at drawing faces or people but I’m pushing myself to learn new techniques, I recently got the book “Drawing Perspective: How to See It, how to Apply it” by Matthew Brehm, Its tough getting your head and hand to act as one so I am looking forward to applying some of Brehm’s teachings.

I enjoy producing portraits, especially capturing expression and moods. The challenge is identifying key features, lines and shapes that cultivate a likeness of the individual. I have been returning to this practice for the past 6 months and I’ve been lucky enough to have 3 portrait requets so I am able to practice daily.