Queen of the Bugs

Posted on May 17, 2013 by BeckiBoos

I think my title says it all! I quite like insects I think they can be quite pretty, when I was a kid I would potter around my garden looking at them, saving them from birds, even now I am reluctant to kill insects (except mosquito’s little blighters!)

I think now I am going to relax into my weekend… I have that friday feeling.

Available to buy here

Sneaky

Posted on May 15, 2013 by BeckiBoos

What I am working on right now

Michelle Obama

Posted on May 14, 2013 by BeckiBoos

Well I finally get to show you guys this! I did this well over a month ago now for the Gallery of Fashion Art (I won’t bother putting a link as they are redoing the site)

they asked me to do portrait of a person (or POP) of Michelle Obama and I wanted to do a small twist on the whole red, white and blue thing, so I came up with this.

Hope you guys like it

Wild Deer

Posted on May 13, 2013 by BeckiBoos

Heres my… I’m not sure what it is. Its a creature I have made up because apparently there is no word for a lion, deer, lady. Who knew? Can you think of one?

Anyway this came around from a list of ideas I have to get through, but it was actualised thanks to Birdy & Me I read this post on how she does her illustrations, most of it was somewhat the same as most illustrators except how she creates her concepts. See first she uses photoshop to create a reference image she wants first and then draws it. I honestly have no idea how this idea never occurred to me before! It means I can create images without flipping back and forth between a bunch of pictures on my IPad! Its brilliant this way I get the image I want and to do a quick fix if it doesn’t quite work and use something else. Yeah it takes a little while to do the reference image (about 15 mins) but its so worth it especially if you want realistic results when you draw them. My other method was very 50/50. My drawings should improve now!

So back to what I have drawn here, I had this idea for a Sagittarius picture to have antlers for eyebrows (everyone does them in the hair or as hoods and I wanted to do something different) but when I added big hair I couldn’t resist going for a full on MANE. Hope you like it!

Thanks for the tip Birdy!

This is available to buy here