The lockdown art challenge either never ended or has started up again. And there’s nothing to do but sit about practicing styles. This is a portrait of local Teesside musician Micheal CG in the style of Aubrey Beardsley. It’s a simple black and white illustration (actually black and beige to mimic paper colours) with elementsContinue reading “Lockdown Art Challenge – Aubrey B”
Author Archives: Aimee Charlotte
Ladies and Animals
I’ve become mildly interested in ladies with animals and I don’t know why. I just like them holding each other – coexisting in the same space I pondered on this, reading scraps about it here and there. I did a bit of research and found a lot of classical portraits of women holding animals inContinue reading “Ladies and Animals”
Would you like to be better at product photography?
Yeah so would I – but here we are. Doing the best we can under time limits with only a phone camera and a photo editing app. I want to represent ‘eco friendly’ products, but not in a sea-green, natural, Kraft paper way (I’m not a fan of that) but in a more… ‘The FutureContinue reading “Would you like to be better at product photography?”
On the subject of snakes
I’ve been playing with a few images that interest me – specifically Medusa and her snakes. Everyone knows the main story of Medusa (turn people to stone), and then everyone will correct you on the story of Medusa to highlight the female misery aspect. You’ve got rape, then being cursed, then killed etc. etc. ButContinue reading “On the subject of snakes”
Rebranding the Jartree
As more health food #zerowaste shops move towards the seagrass green and cream colour scheme – I’ve been using this shop rebranding to move away from it. Partly to make the shop more distinguishable online from a quick glance on the social media pages and website, and partly because I hate it. It was okContinue reading “Rebranding the Jartree”
Quick Outlining – Patti Smith Line Drawing
A very quick simplified outline drawing of Patti Smith from the cover of the 1975 Horses album. Tattoo request – just do the outline and block colour of the hair and shirt (maybe some of the jawline) I listened to the album once I finished drawing – it was listed in Rolling Stone‘s “500 GreatestContinue reading “Quick Outlining – Patti Smith Line Drawing”
Icon and signage illustration
Working on large format printed boards to signpost people to products/reductions/instructions etc. And you need a surprising amount of them I was experimenting with simple illustrations to add a bit of playfulness online and in the store The below images of scales and jars illustrate how to buy refill food when bringing your own containersContinue reading “Icon and signage illustration”
Minotaur couples therapy
Creating space / playing with a flat illustration – learning digital drawing in lockdown Listless minotaurs – this is a quick digital drawing of some pensive minotaurs. I was trying to create a sense of cold distance between them using the colours/ background, with varying degrees of success
Photoshopping animals to make them marginally more interesting
I don’t know what else I can say about this, I’ve been photoshopping animals together for fun and relaxation purposes. I spent an amount of time (unspecified amount of time ago) looking through old D&D Monster Manuals, then making stat cards for my own monsters – which I would design, and were mostly dragons. It’sContinue reading “Photoshopping animals to make them marginally more interesting”
Teesaurous park
This was in no way my project, and all done by the volunteers of Community Champions Middlesbrough The photos are mine, unless specified, or clearly not mine, because they’re from 1979 I did help out with some painting, because the dinosaurs are near my studio. I even got to paint a small triceratops, which hasContinue reading “Teesaurous park”
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