.Update.

Latest finished piece in my fairy tale drawings.

My latest ventures in to the unknown creative realms of my mind, involve sketching up plans for the pages of my next kids book. The story for the book was entered in to a compertition and got in to the top 300 out of thousands of stories and I got a a 'well done' from the big guys.

While the planning commences slowly i will carry on with the digital fairy tale images and also a little side project of 'ninja bunny' t-shirt designs.

.Little Miss Muffet.

Latest finished picture.

Little Miss Muffet.

More on the way... watch this space.

More Characters.

I've gone back to the whole 'fairytale' thing again but it's always fun so I carry on. I'm trying a slightly new way of drawing and colouring my characters. It takes longer to do but it looks better in ways, also the before sketches and line drawings have to be cleaned up a lot.

I've picked a few character from fairytails and nursery rhymes and put a twist on them to make them my own, here are the line drawings of a few of them.


Here is one of my first drawings i did for this chain of sketches along with the finished thing.

.Caricatures.

I seem to be drawing a lot of caricatures lately, some chi bi's and some face portraits. I think it's cause it's simple to do yet effective, also it's fun :) and it helps when I have a drawing block.

Here are my latest drawings.

.caricatures.

As a few of you already know, I've had a creative block for a while now so to get me back in to drawing I did a caricature of a mate and this is how it turned out.

Also i've recently been asked for another caricature/cartoon commission that I will be starting work on very soon. See my website for details of commission prices and terms, thank you!

.Actual.Touchable.Book.

Yey! my copy of Timmy & The Magic Bean arrived :D next thing to do is research in to publishers and send out letters asking sweetly and nicely if they will publish my book for me ha ha.

.Timmy.book.finished.

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/timmy-the-magic-bean/15671649

Timmy book is FINALLY finished :) and I'm really happy about it. It's taken me forever to draw, make and upload as a certain format for different websites. Above is the lulu.com link so if you want a copy click the link above, i've ordered mine!

.More.Chibi's.

.chi-bi.

Continuing with chi-bi's and i'm working on more :) it's fun and they look cool. can you guess who these two drawings are?

.It.Starts.

It started with an experiment of drawing myself and it looked good, so I drew some one else..that looked good too. All of a sudden the potraits became popular and i'm being asked to draw even more, so now i'm charging :) all details on potrait comissions on my website http://www.wix.com/bex_eden/bex-eden-illustration check it out!

Below is the first few potraits I have done.

.A.Bunch.O.Stuff.

It seems the Alice picture has been put on hold for a while as I've had to work on images for booklet/mini exhibition called What Hull Means To Me. Here is the second image for that, the first image I didn't like much but I like this one a bit more.

..and to continue with the chibi drawings here is my latest one. They are fun to draw and simple enough to colour and i think they look cool :)

.Creative.News.Updates.

I have recently started my Doodle a Day mini sketch book and have been posting each image on my website http://www.wix.com/bex_eden/bex-eden-illustration check it out! I am always updating it, adding pages and putting up new images.

Also I have decided to start making sock monsters..as I had some 'pair less' socks that looked a bit lonely and too pretty too throw away so I gave them a new life :) below is 'Freddy' the first monster to be created, As soon as I get my hands on some more stuffing I will make some more :)

.GNOME.Comp.

An idea that I started drawing a while back and I thought would work well as a design for the GNOME 3.0 t-shirt design competition. Being a bit psychedelic and crazy but also fun, I thought it was a good way of representing being able to be creative and fun whilst using the GNOME program to simplify and keep your files safe without any worry.
There are many variations of this design which can be used on different coloured t-shirts, obviously the original design would be the most expensive to make as it has lots of colours but I think it looks just as good in one or two colours. Below are a few examples of the different ways it could look and simplified sections of the design.

.NEoN.

After many doodles and brain scratching idea's I finally decided I'd designed enough characters for the NEoN character t-shirt design competition. Here are a few doodle stages and final images for you to feast your eyes on.

Book Marks

Just a few book mark idea made for selling, if they are popular I will be making more, my details will be on the back so it's sorta like a business card at the same time. These are all based on pics and characters I've done in the past, a lot more can be done in a wide range but these were done in a short time.

colored comic strip/story

Colored version of the short comic strip that turned out to be a strange story/comic thing, i've decided I'm not that good at comic strips to will not do any more or work even harder on the next one if I do.

Comic Book Idea.

Thought I'd try doing some short comic strips for certain parts of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz but try as I may as a comic strip I couldn't get it to work, so I mixed the whole comic book idea with my familiar story book thing and I think it works quite well.

Baring in mind the text I have on the page is from the original book but may not be in the right order and might be missing parts in between, it's just so it relates more to the images.

Character Transformation Animation

Right, this little short animation took me all day to draw non-stop and it's meant to look sketchy on purpose :)

I've always wanted to try and make a hand drawn animation but never had the patient until now glorious day it's all i seemed to have ha ha. This sequence is a run through of just a few of my characters and drawings that I've done i the past, it does have music in the background (created by me and my guitar) but it's very quiet so crank up the volume!

Hope y'all enjoy this little viewing and i hope to draw more in the future but longer then this one, now i know how it's all done.

Little Book of Big Heads

As a personal project I'm creating a Little Book of Big Heads, which are my own character designs dressed as various things and doing different stuff. The are very simple characters but fit well in to most situations and are simple to draw, coloured with watercolour paint, outline with fine liner some areas washed down to get the ink running to make the shadows. I'm currently uploading to lulu.com to be made in to a proper bound and printed book, as the book it is now is all hand painted and stitched together by me. :)