Animal Characters/Zoo Animals 
Tuesday, 3 February, 2009, 6:21 AM
Posted by Emma M


Here are some illustrations of wild animals which I have drawn recently. I wanted to explore how animals could be drawn in a stylised way, but remain realistic; or characterised so they had individual personalities and expressions.

The animals shown are an elephant and a giraffe (more characterised); then an otter, a lemur and a penguin (stylised yet realistic).

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Admiral Characters for English Heritage, Dover Castle Wartime Tunnels Factsheet 
Monday, 2 February, 2009, 4:47 AM
Posted by Emma M


Above are two Admiral characters I have just finished, commissioned by English Heritage for use on a children's factsheet for the Dover Castle Secret Wartime Tunnels.

The characters are black and white so the sheet can be easily photocopied, and children could even colour them in themselves if they wanted to.

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Treasures from the V&A 400-1600 AD, Children's Trail Sheet Illustrations for Sheffield Millennium Galleries 
Thursday, 29 January, 2009, 2:38 AM
Posted by Emma M



Last night I attended the opening of the 'Treasures from the V&A' at Sheffield Millennium Galleries, and picked up a copy of the children's trail which I supplied illustrated characters for. You can see both sides above.

Illustrations by myself, design and layout by Museums Sheffield.

If you are interested in finding out more about the exhibition, see the link below.

http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/cor ... sp?id=1028

You can see larger versions of the illustrated characters in my Historical Portfolio.

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Children Interacting with Nature 
Wednesday, 28 January, 2009, 7:56 AM
Posted by Emma M


Here is a selection of spot illustrations of children interacting with nature which I have just completed.

Activities included are bird watching, pond dipping, looking at animal tracks and observing animals.

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Illustration Friday: "Climbing" - A tree is nature's climbing frame 
Monday, 26 January, 2009, 9:12 AM
Posted by Emma M


This week's illustration friday theme is 'climbing', and this immediately made me think fondly of the childhood pastime of climbing trees!

There's been quite a bit on the news lately about the demise of tree climbing amongst modern children, which if it is true, is really sad. The BBC news article below takes a look at this topic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7358717.stm

Please Note: Further to several email enquiries asking permission to use this image for various charitable causes-I cannot give permission to anyone to use this image since it is currently under exclusive license to one of my clients.

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