Sketch book stuff, doodles and ideas, some guaranteed to be rubbish.
I’ve been lacking inspiration a bit lately, not uploading to istock until they get the site sorted, I have a backlog of stuff and after a while of producing stuff that just sits on the hard drive is a...
View ArticleDoodles turned into artwork
Took my sketchbook page in the post below and attempted a finished artwork to sell in my istock portfolio ( once the site issues are resolved)...
View ArticleRoll up, roll up, see the luverly new illustrations ‘ere…
OK, maybe not lovely, but new work anyway. Site issues at iStock are meaning that I have a bit of a backlog of images I’ve produced that are sitting on my hard drive, un-uploaded so far. In between...
View ArticleBlogging backlog, tackling tricky freelance images and other stuff
I had an email from my sister in law yesterday, telling me about her new blog. http://spanishtoenglishtranslator.wordpress.com Anyway, I was shamed into realising I’d got a bit lazy about keeping on...
View ArticleOngoing work, stock images, new shop stuff blah blah……….
Rather ironically, as I’m currently illustrating a book called Blogging for Photographers,I was reading some text from said book, all about how bloggers start off with good intent then lapse into...
View ArticleRecent uploads
I’ve got a little gap in freelance work so I’m back to uploading images to my istock portfolio, http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/911920/?facets=%7B%2225%22%3A%226%22%7D#600b398 Rather than...
View ArticleTechnical drawing
When I was at school TD was one of those subjects I hated ( along with just about everything else, come to think about it), involving horrible stubby pencils with broken leads that always dropped out...
View ArticleNew selling opportunities
After some pressure from our oldest daughter to make a greater effort to promote the items we sell on our website, http://www.johnwoodcockillustration.co.uk and to produce some more, we have signed up...
View ArticleCraft fair thoughts and work in progress.
Last weeks fair at Colchester Arts Centre was a big improvement on the previous ( and our first) craft fair. A smaller venue but much more arty in feel, printmakers and illustrators much in evidence...
View ArticleHand drawn lettering
We’ve got quite a collection of old Victorian wooden lettering and I’d already photographed a complete alphabet for inclusion in my iStock portfolio…...
View ArticleNew stuff, with words.
I’ve been busy working on rather dull bread and butter freelance projects, all welcome in the current economic climate, and we’re also hopefully moving at the end of August, from a rather dull village...
View ArticleSome new maps and the joys of moving house.
We moved house 10 weeks ago, and the process of finding a house, buying a house, and then actually moving house have taken a bigger than expected chunk out of my blogging life. We have moved from a...
View ArticleBlack and white drawings, yes, real ink, real paper.
I’ve been feeling the urge to draw something recently, to get back to basics, with a pen and paper. I’ve been churning out digital imagery to sell online …....
View ArticleNew work.
I’ve decided to just post some new images without taking too much time to comment, these are basically a series of images that have progressed on from the last post, either coloured versions of...
View ArticleVector geranium
I’ve had to suspend the oil painting for the time being as I’ve got a couple of freelance jobs, strictly digital so I have to switch back to Adobe Illustrator mode. I’ve finished one batch, some maps,...
View ArticleWordy map
I’ve always been a map fan, and done plenty of them in my working life, in fact doing 20 for a sailing book at the moment. I’d seen a similar treatment to this on a map of London and thought it would...
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