May Draw A Day | Day Five.

I created a little collage for today's May Draw A Day Challenge; the theme was window. Let's hope we see less gloomy skies outside for the rest of May, and that we get some sunshine peeking through our curtains soon. 

May Draw A Day | Day Four.

Day four; Bird. Robins are my favourite. ♥

May Draw A Day | Day Three.

Day three! Today's theme is your name. I really enjoyed creating this image as I got to play around with typography which I love. I hope you like the colour pink, I got a little carried away;

May Draw A Day | Day Two.

Day two! Today's word is tree, and here's my image;

May Draw A Day | Day One.

Earlier today, I was having a little read of Jade's blog, and I came across this; the May Draw A Day Challenge created by Schwarzie by Astrid. The idea behind the challenge is interpret the theme assigned to each day in May and create a little drawing or doodle, photograph it, and share it on your blog, Facebook or Twitter. These are the themes for each day;

You may have noticed that my blog has been a little quiet recently, and that's because I've been taking a little break from my illustration work to focus on getting my eating disorder under control. Now things are getting better I want to get back into my illustration work, but I have been struggling to find the motivation. This challenge seems like the perfect opportunity to ease myself back into illustrating, so every day this month I will be posting a new little illo onto my blog. 

The illustrations I create will not be similar to my usual work; they will be doodles, they won't be polished and perfect. Some days I will draw, some days I will use collage. I am also going to only allow myself half an hour each day to create my drawings, as I tend to get too precious about my work, and I want to challenge myself to create images that aren't completely perfect, but still have the confidence to show them on my blog - this is something I would never usually do. I also just really want to have fun with this - I really want to enjoy creating illustrations again!

So here goes! Today's theme was bunting, and here is my image;

You can find out more about the May Draw a Day challenge here. Happy first of May everyone, I hope you all have a month filled with sunshine. :]

Illustration Friday | Heights.

I'm scared of being very very high up.

This is a bit of an old one, but it fits the theme perfectly. A double page spread taken from my children's book I'm A Little Bit Scared Of... which focuses on some of the fears children experience when they are young.

Doodler's Anonymous | Colouring book.

This is a colouring page that I designed for a chance to be included in Doodler's Anonymous new colouring book. Unfortunately, my entry wasn't selected to be part of the final book, but I had fun creating this image, especially playing around with the typography.

If you or your children would like to use this image to colour in, please feel free to download a copy. I'd love to see my monster all colourful, so it would be ace if you could send me a photo once you're done - I'll post all your pictures on my blog, so get colouring! :]