raving ravens!

I've been drawing a lot of birds recently (more than usual!) and last week I started doing a lot of ravens (no reason in particular I just like 'em). I like making more than one drawing of a bird, because they're always different, and I like drawing them sitting, flying, close ups etc.! I've decided to start making a book/sketchbook of birds like this... so for each double page there'll be one bird, and maybe more I don't know I'll see how it goes! But I'll let you know when I've started cos I need a nice sketchbook first!

Next post I need your help about business cards for me, I've started to design some but can't decide on which design or what background!!!

Anyhoo, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

xxx

Stop! Collaborate and listen. (Collaborative Project)

This is a collaboration I did with illustrator Bruce Parker (http://brucey-art.com/) over the last few weeks. This was the first collaboration I did, so it was a bit scary! I found it a bit difficult at the beginning trying to work around an illustration that is in a completely different style to mine. But once I got thinking, brainstorming, and sketching, it became easier. It was a challenge, but it was a good way to start working and thinking in different ways! I think they've turned out really well :) Now that I've done some I'd love to make some more!

If anyone else is interested in collaborating, let me know :)

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my castles brings all the boys to the yard

I've started drawing castles... at the moment castles in Wales, so I started off with this one - Caernarfon castle. I wanted to just draw the castle without the buildings and stuff around it, to keep it simple. But I'll draw more castles (including this one) with the stuff surrounding it, and without. I want to experiment with colour with this one next, so I'll blog about it when I'm done (omg I'm blogging!!!).

This was my first attempt, but the castle was longer than I expected and the page wasn't long enough (DAMMIT!). I'll finish this one, but I'll fill in the surrounding areas too, otherwise it'll look weird just popping out of the page. So next week I'm going to draw a lot of castles hopefully (amongst other things), or the same ones over and over til it's right!

If there's anything I could do to improve it etc, I'd love to hear your thoughts :)

xxx

Introduction into Bloggerland!

Paris Street View

. By meee! (aka Anna Gwenllian)

Hello! My name is Anna Gwenllian and as it says in the 'About Me' section I'm an illustrator/artist/drawer of things from North Wales.

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I've finally made myself a blogger/blogspot blog! I've already got a tumblr blog (see

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) but that's become a collection of images that inspire me, with some of my sketches in between rather than an actual blog. Tumblr isn't really a blog I can write on. I can't really make a post about an illustrator or artist with a lot of images, write about them, and allow people to respond back. They can 'like' it, and I guess they can reblog it, but at the end of the day it's just where people find funny/cute/interesting images to show others, more than an actual blog! Then there's twitter (my twitter is @AnnaGwenllian by the way), which is basically the same with a restriction of 140 characters to say anything etc. So making a real-life grown-up blogger blog is a place I can share my inspirations, write about new and old artists/illustrators/writers/maker-of-things while including imagery. A place where I can share what I've been upto properly, without twitter cutting me off mid-sentence and having to resort to speaking in text-talk LOLZ!!!

Now with this introduction post out of the way I can start blogging about other things... :)

xxx