Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Happy Mother's Day! The U.K had their Mother's Day on 11th March, which was two days ago! I have gave my mum something meaningful, a card illustrated by me! My concept was to have a bird and flower as a wreath, with them that are her favourites, which are robin (British) and carnation. My first thought of using the media was waterpaint, the colourpencil was the back up plan, I had hope that my waterpaint skill is good than before. Also, the card I used is the size of 4"x6", to illustrate so small that the waterpaint will be easy. So here's first sketchbook page of my experiment of waterpaint. I thought this looking really good, better than I expected. Then I tried out what colourpencil would look like on flowers.   This illustration of carnation flowers, as in colourpencil, may looks good but that's in 13cm square. I thought that I would like it when I illustrate small as in 1cm, especially with some details on flowers, I'l

Hellooo. This blog topic is about... SNOW. Last week, from Monday, it had been snow for a week in England, that's where I lives. I did a snow day on Saturday and I had some fun with sledding, snow angel and snowball. While I was indoor, staying warm, I watched quite a lot of birds hang around some bird feeders in my garden. I have the bird fatball hanged from the branch, two seed feeders filled with sunflower hearts and a cake/scrap feeder filled with seeds and nuts in lard, that sits on the wall, surround with bushes' branch. This actually did bring a lot of birds such as black birds, blue tits, great tits, robins and even few pigeons tempted to eat from the feeders. Watching them inspired me to have an idea to illustrates, as I called Bird Feeders In The Snow. Though I was in the kitchen and birds fly around a lot, so I captured these moments to memorise, I ended up with only two. Then I drew this... Left: Two Goldfinches on seed feeder. Right: Dunnock stared at c