Beauty and the Beast Competition

Beauty and the Beast

These are some sketches and character work I did for a competition for Waterstones 'Picture This' 2011

 This year it is Beauty and Beast. I thought I'd enter it, as I love Beauty and the Beast. I think it is amazing story and I felt my illustration style would suit it. 

So here are my interpretations of the characters. I used acrylic inks and paint as my medium.



Beast - coloured



Beast - Line drawing





Belle - coloured





Cat character






Double page spread entry - coloured

 



What I've been working on...

'Down the Drain' by Stephen Saunders

I am currently working with author Stephen Saunders. On a Children's book he has written called , 'Down the Drain'. Which is about a boy who gets sucked into the plug hole when he's sitting in the bath and goes on a journey meeting some rather unusual characters. He ends up on a journey around the u-bend and even travels out to sea only to end up back home again.

Here are some rough sketches and development for the book that I have been working on.

Storyboard part 1



Storyboard Part 2





Character Development





Sketches 1



Sketches 2

Sketches 3



"My mother warned me not to stay too long in the bath..."



 




"Instead I stayed for hours on end, my fingers going wrinkly; pale and white, just like my feet horrible and crinkly"




 

 

 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day for yesterday!

Happy Valentine's day everyone !!

I thought I'd share my Valentine's card I did for my boyfriend. (Iain)

Why a Tiger and Rabbit? Because I was born in the year of the Rabbit and my boyfriend was born in the year of the Tiger.  I thought it would be sweet to make a card. Also I had a look at the cards in the shop and they made me want to vomit, they were so cheesy!!

 I wanted to keep my design simple yet interesting. I used coloured pencils and pen.

Mini Project "Do You Work Here?"

'Do You Work Here' is a mini personal project I did about my experiences working in retail.

It was a way for me to express my frustration and hatred of my job.

I wanted to show a funny side, to were I used to work and show the different characters of people I worked with and came across.

'Out the Back'

'Uniform'

'Queues

Initial sketches



Snowy Birthday Card

kathryn Spreadbury 2010

This is a snowy birthday card for my Mum. As it's snowing , I felt like creating an image that represents this wintery feel.

I used oil pastles and a pen. I used one of my old pen's to scratch into the pastle to create the illusion of fur on the baby penguins.

Gazette and Herald write up

Hi there here is a link to Gazette and Herald's website :

Watch this space working on new personal project, new work up soon!!!.

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/8480362.Thanks_Sir__says_winning_Marlborough_artist/

Link to UCA website

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=30909

Click on link above to read article about my Award at Images 34 by UCA.