Laura Mallaghan Illustration

A definition of drawing is “sketch (a figure, picture, etc.)with a pencil or pen” and “picture or plan made by means of lines on a surface; art of making drawings”. (Colins English Dictionary, 2004) My thought of drawing is in the same way as basic and improving skills with pencil by hand. Observational sketches, outline drawings and also delicate details, with basic hard media tools such as pen, pencil, charcoal, graphite, etc as well as some doodle drawing, a loosely imaginative sketch. An illustrator like myself, would draw for their own purpose such as pleasure, to please viewers, communicate, experiment and to give of expression. Here follows some example of artists’/illustrators’ drawings (my inspiration list) Furry Little Peach (aka Sha’an D’Anthes) sketches all kind of animals, mostly, in a soft watery style. She sketched many as rough ideas for her main artwork, like the stingray sketch. She also doodles out of pleasure and expresses the beauty of wild animals I belie...

I have collected artists’/illustrators’ online portfolio, to see how they use the layout, links, and what did they includes. (All of them are my influence artists and illustrators) Kristjana S William : www.kristjanaswilliams.com Her background is a large logo with simple black and white. She included her awards, store, tumblr feed and press. Easy finding the links. Her main page is a bit confusing to me. it’s like the layout a bit scattered around and was not sure what it is about. Nadia Flower : www.nadiaflower.com Plain white background. Easy to find the links on the left side. Images of her work on the right side, simple layout. Yet, enter her main page show her client work rather than somewhat personal work. But i quite like her structure. The web-design Flower using is Format. ( http://format.com/l/your_new_portfolio#peak ) Papernoodle (Cheong-ah Hwnag) : www.papernoodle.com Black background made it all dark and feeling not into it, but, with her am...

I took a picture and set up frame portrait (the vignette filter), to make this looks more appealing. I was thinking using this photograph for Deaffest , as i am applying to exhibit my work for their exhibition, for deaf people. I hope i get submitting… This is what i have done over the Christmas break, for an experiment, this is a ‘air-hardening’ clay sculpture of a fox. The size on here is 17cm long and 8cm height, a small sculpture for a starter. The first 4 photos, that’s before dry and solid settled. Then these last 3 photos, became white , dry and solid, ready for the next stage. The next stage is colours and some details.