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It is close to Autumn

...but it's fairly wintery in Falmouth now.  I've had this floating about since October, when it made more sense, but if you pine for long, yellowed autumn afternoons this is for you. This is basically the view from my studio window.  All these pretty little terraced houses, lots of trees, & the harbour.  Lots of dog walkers.  If it were true to life there'd be more birds, though.
I'm trying to work on surface detail & pattern, seeing how much is too much.  Working on paring down my colour schemes as well.  I have a feeling I won't get used to desaturated colours, even this earnest attempt came out quite bright!

In other spanking news, my new website is finally finito at cathyhookey.com with not just a nice slick redesign (thankyou Mr Apsitis!) but some new work as well!

So that's all lovely, lovely.  I'll have some more to show you soon; something about the colder months makes me more busy even though I don't try to be more busy?

Posted by Cathy at 16:27 1 comments

Labels: autumn, bright, fall, Falmouth, harbour, scene, sea, town

IF: Shy Just a quickie, I've wanted to draw princesses all week, but also siblings, so I did them both in one.  Not-so-identical twins, but opposites attract right?  I think they can both learn a lot from each other.

Posted by Cathy at 12:11 0 comments

Labels: ballerina, girls, if, illustration friday, kids, princesses, shy, twins

Drawing words (& cactus).

Another poster-toaster for promo peeps Dueling Kazoos for a gig tonight. I was on an unstoppable typography binge when I did this, so I decided a poster made mostly of type was totally an awesome idea.  I wanted glowy linear detail & couldn't think of anywhere with more neon than Vegas, so it got wild west as well.  I adore cartoon cactus.  I want to do some cowboy stuff soon.

Posted by Cathy at 20:55 0 comments

Labels: hand drawn type, poster, typography, vegas

Lovely lazy ladybirds

A challenge to draw my favourite animal, which stumped me, because I have about a bjillion favourite animals & I've already drawn most of them.  So I chose my favourite from the list of my favourites which I haven't drawn yet. A FACT, especially for everyone who has ever told me a ladybird took a wee on them & I've tried to pursuade them otherwise, it's called 'autohaemorrhaging' & it's because said ladybird thinks you're gonna eat it!  Such clever lovely lazy ladybugs!

Posted by Cathy at 14:54 0 comments

Labels: animals, autumn, bugs, happy, kids, ladybird, ladybug

 



Nice celebratory pose, Ma'am I'm aware it's late.  Too busy :( Sorry Ma'am, no disrespect.  Well, no more intended than when I drew you in this pose.

I'm off to Poole next week to spend a week with the beautiful team behind designing the gift boxes at LUSH, which I am tres TRES excited about!  I've been lucky enough to have been working freelance with them for a little while now, so it'll be lovely to finally meet everyone!  Also, the train journey is immense, so that will give me a nice chunk of time to get up to date on some other work too, or possibly I will just doodle.

Update on the work/doodle debate, next week.


Posted by Cathy at 22:27 0 comments

Labels: humorous, jubilee, Queen

Feat. the Unrelated Catstronaut 

Posted by Cathy at 22:28 0 comments

Labels: cartoon, cat, poster, space

Flying Fihs

Only me.

To tide you over, though, a friendly dog. Posted by Cathy at 12:01 0 comments

Bakers are ALWAYS popular

If this is the only downside of the job I might have chosen the wrong profession... Posted by Cathy at 19:54 3 comments

IF: Puzzled

I think we all are. I'm enjoying a few days off & getting back to drawing things for myself. There is a story behind this one, but I do love how it throws you more questions than answers.

Posted by Cathy at 23:03 2 comments

Labels: bear boy character illustration friday puzzled

In Club Eye LP

AHOY. I'm going to do a catch up of things that haven't made it to the BLOGOSPHERE! (is that the right word?) This one is special cos it took a different fork in the road & became a journey into the strange land of selling vegan cakes, a yarn that will be spun another time, little ones. It was for a series of posts on Middle Boop mag where illustrators were asked to produce a CD cover for a fictional act. Mine would probably be vinyl though, cos I've spent a while getting back into psychedelic posters. And I still live in Cornwall. So this is everything mad about the West Country, including seagulls on hallucinogenic binge drinking sessions. As if the rest of us aren't on hallucinogenic binge drinking sessions.

Club I isn't worth it too. xxx

Posted by Cathy at 11:55 0 comments

Labels: psychadelic seagull


Why settle for a snack when you can have a whole buffet? I'll be selling screenprints of this as soon as I get time. I'm mainly working on bits n bobs for an upcoming placement (eeee!) but I'm trying to pepper things (foodpun) with continuing to draw stupid stuff. If you're bored of Valentines already just go eat a whole pie. Oh wait you can't I ate it all first.


Posted by Cathy at 20:45 1 comments

Labels: poster junk food buffet promo fluro

IF: Grounded

If you can't be grounded, you can't be growing! It's a drawing of Lovely Letty for her birthday, who is wonderfully grounded & bloomin' beautiful! BLOOMING!! Did you see what I did there? IT'S A PUN. Because she's got a flower-head in the drawing. Har har har.

Posted by Cathy at 16:29 4 comments

Labels: illustration friday grounded portrait flowers

Simply A Dog's Dinner

Tee hee, not really, don't be silly! These are slightly old (maybe not the best way to start my 2012 blogging?), from a pitch for a wacky stationary design project involving cats & dogs in clothes. They didn't get selected, but I loved every minute of it, & am pretty in love with some of these cats. I also hadn't realised how hard pugs were to draw 'til this project. How is something so hard to get right so trendy?! I love dressing animals up in costumes. My own cats are afraid to read that. If I had some more money, cats, I swear...

Anyway, the rest of these are some of my favourite concept sketches from the project. Happy New Year to all of you my loves! :)

Posted by Cathy at 20:15 0 comments

Labels: cats dogs silly costumes sketches wip



