Laura Mallaghan Illustration

Well, I can finally say that... I'm in the Drawn Volume.1 book! It's feel amazing to be in the book, that's one of my dreams, to have my illustrations in the book. All the illustrators' work in there are astonishing.   Here's the sneak peak GIF of inside the Drawn. The hardcover books are only available in Australia, for worldwide, you can purchase online from Amazon, Powell's Books and BAM. Have a lovely day. 😄

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...

Arrived in London on 31th October, gathered up with the group. The first stop was The Horse Hospital, with very small gallery of ‘Alien Puma Space Train: The Visionary Work of Daniel S. Christiansen’. Looked at Daniel’s drawings was a bit confused at first, soon then when I noticed quite faded with drawing of underground train, though it was mentioned ‘Alien Puma Space Train’. Viewed these drawings and tried to understand his concepts and culture combined. My thoughts of his drawings are like an Egyptian style, as there are human with wings. But I was distracted away from understanding of his drawing and was interesting of how the wings are perfect match to real birds’ that I was tried draw of.   Moving on to the next stop of University of the Arts London, London College of Communication Elephant and Castle, a huge corridor gallery of ‘50 Years of Illustration’. Looked at the illustrations from each decade, with different styles. An interesting description about the ...

The kind of commissions I want to work are any roles relates to nature, it may be packaging designs for nature theme design, it may be editorial in nature topic articles, it may be window display, and so. Though I would like to work with the nature charities, which are RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trust, etc., that I could do with my fabric sculptures, animations and any others I can do. However I have been commissioned in 2011 and 2012, from my graphic course.  As in course-group, we were commissioned to design logo brand, in 2011, and to design website, in 2012, for Centara, the neighbourhood association in Corby Town. Yet it was not my kind of idea to work. As mentioned why I chose illustration over graphic design. Even so I did have a look at the agencies, the one I came across for years and simply useful was Illustrationweb. I looked through the illustrators that I was familiar with are Sarah Beeston, Jacqueline Bissett, Oliver Hasselluhn, and many more in there. I beli...

Illustrators are essential to society. Historically and in some modern societies images produced by illustrators inform the illiterate as well as “fire the imagination” (Shaughnessy). Images are powerful tools of communication (Grace Helmer & Charlotte Mei Jones) of ideas as well as recording society and behaviour. In a visual world they inform, entertain, express the imagination and heighten experiences and emotions. Empire State Building poster by Brian James  Being an illustrator not only means communicator and recorder, but also communicator and recorder of self. The rewards can be immense – being able to represent information as you perceive it – and get paid for it. A dream job. (Grace Helmer & Charlotte Mei Jones) My thoughts of illustration mean that it is anything from drawings and printing to screenprint, monoprint, etching print, etc. There are many kinds of roles which relate to illustration, for instance, there’s cartoonist, designer, artist, gamer...