Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Yesterday I heard it was International Rabbit Day, as I'm a rabbit lover/obsessed, I thought I join in! So here's a very cute lop-eared rabbit. I did a quick paint with watercolour, although I have drawn this few months ago so that saved me some time, and I was using the old traditional Japanese brush I had since in college, even I have not used it for many years, I thought to use it for a quick paint. Halfway through the painting, I thought it looks messy, I ended up changing the brush size, from Japanese brush to fine detail brush, as I was adding some details in the hope of clear it up. Now it looks soft, better than I expected! Before I finish the post here, here's my foster dog, he's an Akita, interested in my painting. 😆 Have a lovely Sunday and thanks for reading! 😊

Happy Easter! What are you planning today for Easter? Egg hunt in your garden? Eat all of the chocolate eggs? Cooking Easter Sunday Roast? Baking Easter cake? My day will be water painting another rabbit and chick, relaxing in the garden and listening birds tweeting, having roast dinner and eat some chocolate eggs! My water paint illustration of Easter Greeting. I was a bit displeased with the Easter eggs, though it's not my forte. And the mess of my handwritten on "Happy Easter", I used too much water from the water brush container and dropped on the spot. On the other hand, the chick looking splendid, my water paint skill always better on animals.   Lastly, I like to talk about rabbits again, even I did from the previous blog "I'm not an Easter Gift" , here's this article I came across a couple days ago,  Heartbreaking Comic About An Abandon Pet Rabbit By Artist Jenny Jinya , the truth about domestic rabbits left to fen...

Half way to completing this animation for fmp|degree show. This actually taking long time to make each scene. Yet, i haven’t start 4 A2 drawings. 😰

I did some photoshoots of my sculptures, so i can use this professional look photographs for my portfolio.

On the day i took it day, here's some more photos.

Hello, i had a nice weekend, i handed in my  dissertation last week and had my birthday yesterday as well as Mother's Day, i turned 22! I enjoyed on my birthday. So, I have completed the window installation on 10th March, now it's stay in for 2 weeks. I have some photo collection below here from my instagram. During installation this morning. Paper-cut tree and some sculptures inside the RSPCA shop. View from outside. Most favourite part of window display.

The final experiment/development outcome, the idea of animals peeping through the tree. My idea of the theme of Covert is about whats inside the tree and in forest, that animals lives there mystery way. Drawn with soft pastels and black ink on hand-wash cotton. 

These are some development drawing for the project of covert. With biro pen, fine line pen and HB sketch pencil, to see which work better. The idea for convert is about the slight fantasy style in the woodland, the mystery tree with woodland animals, all are British animals that i am choosing to use. I am very pleased with my drawing skill that did better than i thought, especially the birds. Got more development experiment to do at the moment, to get more idea for this project..