Antelope skull

This ink drawing of an antelope skull is an observational drawing from 

photographsI took when I visited the Natural History Museum in Paris this spring.

You can really feel the stare of the hollow eyes 

as they look at you coming into the vast hall.

Little note books.

Hand bound little note books with my newest pattern designs.

These are available on my Etsy shop! :)

Chick chick printable!

Here's a little freebie gift for all of my lovely followers (:
You can print this chick pattern up to A3 size to use as wrapping paper, cut out egg shaped decorations for example, or print on card stock and give out as cute Easter cards!

Download here!   Happy Easter!

Bike moon

Hey hey, spring is here and so are the pastels!

I took this old screen print I did some time ago and wanted to create a surface
pattern using it as a starting point.. I vectorised the bicycle and drew the
character and background in Illustrator. Once I was happy with the illustration I duplicated the character and bicycle, flipped it around and adjusted some of the background elements to work when the image was repeated and finally made the pattern using Illustrator's Pattern Tool, and that's it really!
Hope you like it (:

Sketchbook

back to basics - pencil + sketchbook (and a little bit of digital colouring!)

Pond Surface Pattern

Surface pattern, done in Adobe Illustrator.

Random Flounder

I drew a flounder on Illustrator, just for fun, if you wonder!

Christmas Squirrels

Ahhh it's nearly Christmas! 

I have been busy making new things to sell a local Etsy Christmas Market event I have a stall at, 

and these little squirrels will appear in my Etsy shop very soon as well! 

Little terrarium.

Polkupyörä screen print.

Hello!

I've been doing some more screen printing recently and here's a three colour print I did yesterday.
I wanted to illustrate this Finnish song called "Polkupyörä"(Bicycle), which I loved to sing when I was little.

Free translation -

You're pedalling,
I'm steering,
the journey is like a dance.
As we cycle to grandma's,
there's not a cloud in the sky.

Patterns.

Hello from the print room! This time I have been experimenting with screen printing onto fabric. I painted these patterns directly onto transparent film to get a really nice crisp brush stroke when they were exposed onto the screens.

I made badges!

Available in my Etsy shop!

Poster & pattern designs for a VaroomLab Illustration Symposium

Interpretation // Varoom! Lab & Arts University Bournemouth Illustration Symposium 

This symposium seeks to explore ways in which illustrators, interpret, re-interpret and misinterpret information through illustration practice. This event aims to celebrate and investigate the potential exciting creative strategies and possibilities for practitioners to move minds, challenge norms and influence the ways in which we the see the world and connect with it.

You can get tickets for the symposium here!

Girl and birds with hats.

2014 Calendars

Available on Etsy

A collection of mushrooms

 

A watercolour illustration of some mushrooms. Ahh I love autumn!

Available as an A3 print at my Etsy Shop

Anorak Magazine

I love Anorak and was super stoked to have my little doodle featured in the latest issue. The brief was to draw a game or an activity page. Here's my Mrs. Owl's Funny Hat Party, where some of the guests have forgotten to wear their head gear and need crazy hats drawn on their heads!

    http://anorakmagazine.com/

New home.

Hi there, nice to meet you! I've just packed up my things and moved from my first blog home over at Wordpress. It was good while it lasted, but it was time to move on to the big Blogger world. I decided to travel light and leave my old posts behind and start fresh, but you can still go and have a look at my old blog at www.jennidraws.wordpress.com if you wish... I'm still learning the ropes of blogging with blogger, but I'll try and get things going soon -  watch this space!

xx