Ink illustrations

Process

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Sketch

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Ink

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Watercolour

My ink-style illustrations are drawn digitally with an Apple pencil on the iPad. I use an ink pen brush and ‘live’ watercolour brushes (the paint colours ‘bleed’ into each other as they would on paper!)

I think the hand-drawn quality of working on paper is not lost by working digitally. The process is the same - I create rough pencil sketches and ink in the colour once illustrations are approved.

Working digitally allows for greater creative freedom (you are not hindered in mark-making for fear of ruining expensive paper). It also allows for easier revisions, enabling me to make adjustments without needing to start over—an invaluable advantage when working with tight deadlines.

Recent illustrations

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three illustrations showing a girl in a pink gress playing with her dog in the rain
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