Dog mermaid
Seals are dog mermaids aren’t they?
Sketch for Illustration Friday.
Emma Russell
Emma Russell's illustration blog
Tag: Illustration Friday
May 6, 2015
Old Tat Spring 2015
Jewel pattern and biscuits for the candy coated issue of Old Tat magazine.
April 14, 2013
wild seas for IF
wild seas for Illustration Friday the wild seas are harbouring this monster of the deep. but maybe he’s just helping the ship through the waves.
he’s hand cut cartridge paper. people are often surprised by how tiny these things are in the flesh, so here;s a picture of him with a hairgrip for comparison.
December 8, 2012
Bear with me 3D
Bear with me
Bear and I are exploring the woodland around a country home, which fits rather neatly into this week’s Illustration Friday topic, “explore”
Here’s a close up
3d illustration, hand cut cartridge paper.
July 12, 2012
IF Suspend
This week’s Illustration Friday topic is “suspend”. I’ve always enjoyed suspending my disbelief and losing myself in stories and tall tales.
I think if someone told me a herd of Tamworths were passing the window, flying in perfect formation, I’d glance outside before I questioned the story! Here’s a piglet getting a little flying practice in. He’s made of hand cut cartridge paper.
June 28, 2012
IF Space
Illustration Friday’s subject this week is “Space”
These are the sparrows that cluster in the tree outside my living room window, jostling and shouting at each other for space while waiting for their turn on the bird feeder. I love to watch them chatter at each other or nestling down amongst the leaves.
May 10, 2012
IF hitched the second
Here we witness the sad moment when Dick Whittington’s cat lost all respect for him as they tried to hitch back to London. Maybe he resented being taken back and forth across country on the whim of his master hearing a bell talk to him!
this is a hand cut paper illustration for the Illustration Friday topic hitched and i’m cheating slightly as i happened to make two, here’s the first.
Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be any historical basis for the real Richard Whittington having a cat or of him hearing Bow Bells ringing out to him, and he certainly wasn’t a poor orphan. Sometimes real life doesn’t stand up too well to legend.
May 10, 2012
IF hitched
Poor bears, they’ve chosen the worst place to hitchhike from, they’ll never catch a 4000 mile lift from piccadilly circus. At least they’re only paper – i suppose they could travel airmail.
This is for the Illustration Friday topic hitched. There’s a detail or two below, and an alternative hitched here.
Before the “ink” of my digital camera was even dry, i’ve thought of things i would do differently on this. I think if the piccadilly sights were miniaturised the whole thing could crowd together into a happier, more even, composition. The contrast in size between the architecture peices and the small cars and characters means it’s ended up looking a little gappy.
As i was working on it I amended and redrew the composition a few times. One of the changes I made was to cut the tourists I had originally planned to have standing about. It was unnecessary “noise” and confused things too much. Now i have a few homeles little paper people knocking around. I’ll store them for another day.
April 17, 2012
IF Puzzled
Here’s “foxed” my piece for this week’s Illustration Friday topic “Puzzled”. How does she do that?
It’s line drawing on semi transparent paper over a collage. In a crazed break (well, ok not crazy, but I’m trying to sound rock n roll!) with tradition I scanned the two pieces separately and put them together digitally. I worry sometimes that the colours get a little lost when I scan or photograph the whole thing as a piece. The colours are meant to be muted that’s why I use the overlaid paper, but not too fuzzy.
I think this seems to have worked pretty well, it looks fresher. I’d love to hear anyone else’s thoughts on it?
Here’s a snap of the whole thing as a piece for comparison:
And of the line drawing on its own
March 30, 2012
IF swamp
A quick snap of my swamp monster for this week’s Illustration Friday project “Swamp”
I don’t think he’s terribly scary. I imagine he’s only walking like that ’cause he’s trying to remember where he left his glasses!
He’s a paper construction, cut from cartridge paper with a scalpel.
