I've justed started work on a commissioned project to illustrate a timeline of Tudor History for Hall Place in Bexley, which is a historic Tudor Hall. This is a black and white line drawing of Queen Elizabeth I knighting Sir Francis Drake, it will of course be coloured in due course.

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'Extravagant Wig Wearers'

Found this week's theme a bit tricky, because I am still trying to produce more historical work and couldn't immediately think of any ways of linking the two. I decided to draw some characters from the 1700s, and what links them together is their penchant for ridiculous curly wigs! Tenuous link, but I enjoyed drawing them!



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My entry for Index Book's bizarre competition to make bathroom signs more fun! These are for a castle or museum, and feature Henry VIII and Queen Victoria.

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This week's Illustration Friday topic is 'island' - I am currently working on expanding my historical illustration portfolio - so chose to use this as an opportunity to illustrate this famous Winston Churchill quote.

I found trying to get a likeness quite challenging, but I am pleased with the end result and hope it bears some resemblance of the great man himself.

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This is a poster I drew for the Advice to Sink in Slowly project, which passes on advice to new university students in the form of A3 posters. This was a challenging prokect due to the sheer complexity of the image! Colours look a bit garish on screen.

Advice to Sink in Slowly Poster Shop - You can take a look at some of the other posters here - it's fascinating to see everyone's individual responses to the brief. Hasn't been updated with this years posters yet though.

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