About
A key driving force of my practice is curiosity and my desire to understand the world around me. This has led me to use illustration as a way of exploring the interesting parts of life. I produce works inspired by my love of printmaking and mark making and I love working with environment and character design. I especially like creating expressive characters. My practice often reflects my interests in architecture, nature, music and literature. My goal is to work towards a career in publishing, specifically in children’s book illustration, producing black and white illustrations for middle grade readers.
Project overview
Re-illustrated edition of 'The Wizard Of Earthsea.'
This project is a re-illustrated edition of 'The Wizard Of Earthsea' by Ursula K Le Guin where I created black and white pencil illustrations throughout the book and a full colour front and back cover. The medieval fantasy novel has always been a favourite of mine and to be able to create character and environment centric illustrations for it was fantastic. I began this project with the idea to revive the book and bring it to a new audience. As a fantasy classic it’s a well revered novel but I found that all the illustrated editions of the books were collector editions and may not have been made with a wider audience in mind. As a novel for middle grade readers, I wanted to create illustrations that would elevate the book for this audience. I worked with fine liner to create delicate drawings that would capture the attention of the readers whilst developing a representational illustration style for the project to really capture the world and characters as I wanted them to be seen.
The Wizard of Earthsea
The Shadow chapter illustration
The Loosing of the Shadow chapter illustration
The School for Wizards chapter illustration
The Landing In Pendor chapter illustration
