Lesley Smitheringale on June 30th, 2008

Kate is a Graduate from the University of the Arts in the UK with 1st class honours in BA Illustration. Her work is
Creative, quirky and with a passion for doodling I am enthusiastic and dedicated to every piece of work I undertake
My favourite pieces from Kate’s folio are her “Little Birds”

Nelly uses berry [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 30th, 2008

This is another fantastic post from the site COLOURLovers, posted by evad

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 29th, 2008

Electric Art is an internationally acclaimed retouching studio based in Sydney’s creative heart Surry Hills.
Here are some stunning examples of what this Australian  company does.

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 28th, 2008

More changes and improvements and I think that one more session on this drawing tomorrow and it will be finished for my client.

Day 3 - two sessions

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 28th, 2008

There is a beautiful ethnic, folklore and fairytale quality about this illustrator’s work and his illustrations are totally devine.
Finnish born, now London based artist, Klaus Haapaniemi became interested in illustration after seeing some well-designed Russian animations on TV when he was only eight years old. After graduating from Lahti Design Institute, Klaus lived in [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 27th, 2008

After looking at the portrait for a long time, I realised there were quite a few areas I needed to fix up such as the snout and the eyes so I worked on it for a few hours again today fixing up the most obvious proportion errors I had made.  I think it’s a lot [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 27th, 2008

Stunning attention to detail in these illustrations showing a vivid imagination and lovely sense of colour.
Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 26th, 2008

After a long gap of not doing any artwork due to concentrating on photography, I have dug out my chalk pastels again.  I have had an urge to do artwork again for quite some time and after a shaky start, I am slowly developing this portrait of a friend’s dog who is called Tammy.  I [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 26th, 2008

I happened to spy this itty bitty gecko when I was in my garden today and he was about the size of a matchstick.  He kept sticking his tiny little tongue in and out but I couldn’t quite capture this in time.

This feathered friend was very blasé and normally when I get anywhere near the [...]

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Lesley Smitheringale on June 26th, 2008

This young Brazilian graphic designer has produced a novel range of design products and I particularly admire his paper animals which are quite stunning.
I like to work with different medias and techniques, mixing them to create new ways to represent ideas and concepts.

“Paper Forest” poster “In nature, everything turns into more nature”
All the animals and [...]

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