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Tag Archives: artwork
godzilla sketchbook
i recently started a new project based on the king of the monsters – godzilla. i’ve been drawing from the showa-era films (which covers 15 films from 1954-75), and have been working from gojira himself as well as a range … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple pencil, art, artwork, chris cowdrill, cinema, digital illustration, drawing, ghidorah, godzilla, gojira, illustration, ipad pro, kaiju, king of the monsters, mechagodzilla, procreate, rodan, sketch, sketchbook, toho
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bugs
i’m working on a series of insect-based illustrations using ladybirds (or ladybugs), as the starting point. here’s the first two i’ve completed. there’s been some new challenges in producing them – although they only contain about 40-50 individual cut pieces … Continue reading
sketches
earlier this week i was at oxford’s natural history museum and pitt rivers museum, accompanied by 40 art students from the college where i lecture. the objective being for them to gather visual reference for their first project of the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe photoshop sketch, Apple pencil, art, arts, artwork, chris cowdrill, digital drawing, digital illustration, dinosaur, drawing, illustration, ipad, museum, natural history, oxford, pitt rivers, sketch, sketchbook
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toys 2
this is a quick follow up to the last post. with the intention of producing a series of images for exhibition, i continued to draw from my daughter’s toys using my ipad pro and apple pencil. the three new drawings … Continue reading
Posted in exhibitions, graphics, sketchbook, Uncategorized
Tagged adobe sketch, Apple pencil, art, arts, artwork, digital illustration, drawing, exhibition, graphics, illustration, ipad, sketch, toys
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toys
i got a couple of new toys this week – after thinking it over for longer than i care to admit and researching a lot over the last few weeks, i finally bought an iPad Pro. i bought an apple … Continue reading
Posted in finished artwork, sketchbook
Tagged adobe, adobe sketch, Apple pencil, art, arts, artwork, children, children's illustration, chris cowdrill, digital illustration, Digital painting, drawing, graphics, illustration, ipad, Sheep, sketch, sketchbook, toys
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sketches from exhibitions 2
this is another post collecting together some work from my sketchbook. i started making a point of drawing sculptural work when visiting galleries and exhibitions – capturing in two dimensions things that should fundamentally be seen in three. some of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, arts, artwork, chris cowdrill, drawing, exhibition, fine art, ikon gallery, lee bul, pavel buchler, peter hiorns, rowland emett, sketch, sketchbook, tate modern
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riso printing @ rope press
i recently attended a riso zine workshop at the splendid rope press in birmingham. i’d been wanting to attend one of their workshops to learn a bit more about and have a go at the risograph printing process for a … Continue reading
Posted in finished artwork, handmade, sketchbook
Tagged art, arts, artwork, collage, drawing, flowers, illustration, landscape, nature, outdoors, printing, riso, risograph, rope press, self-publishing, sketch, sketchbook, zine
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happy christmas
hi there – just a quick post to wish you a merry christmas. i hope that you have had a great year, and wish you all the best for 2016. thank you to all who have stopped by on here … Continue reading
Posted in finished artwork, graphics, handmade, typography
Tagged art, artwork, christmas, christmas card, design, digital collage, digital illustration, graphics, greetings card, hand drawn, handmade, illustration, lettering, typography
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online shop launch
my online shop is finally live – having been a link from my website to an empty store front on etsy for quite a while now, the shop went live recently on tictail. i had a lot of help with … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, artist shop, arts, artwork, badges, craft, drawing, greetings card, illustration, online shopping, tictail
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birdy business card
just a quick post to show you my new business card that i got printed earlier this week. i’ve had them less than a week and already want to get new ones printed with a different bird illustration on each … Continue reading
