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Tag Archives: chris cowdrill
flower illustrations
i was so pleased with how my series of flower drawings were going that i decided to give some of them a purpose. i chose three drawings that i would develop into finished digital collage outcomes and then produced three … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, artwork, azalea, blossom, botanical illustration, chris cowdrill, collage, dianthus, digital artwork, digital collage, digital illustration, drawing, flowers, forget-me-not, illustration, photoshop artwork, photoshop illustration, rhododendron
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godzilla collage artworks
my godzilla obsession continued in 2021. as well as doing lots of drawings from 1962’s king kong vs. godzilla, i set to work on three larger scale collage artworks. these were based on illustrations i’d done previously and released as … Continue reading
home again
well, it’s been another funny year, and one that began with us going into lockdown again here in the uk. this has been the experience of people in different countries around the world at different times this year. all this … Continue reading
Posted in sketchbook
Tagged art, artwork, azalea, botanical art, chris cowdrill, digital illustration, drawing, flower art, flower drawing, flowers, illustration, ipad drawing, iris, jasmine, lockdown, observational drawing, procreate art, rhododendron
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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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visions of a free-floating island
i recently worked on this booklet for artists andrew smith, hugh marwood and shaun morris for their exhibition at surface gallery, nottingham. the title is taken from andrew’s painting featured on the cover which they had selected to use for … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew smith, art, art exhibition, chris cowdrill, exhibition, graphic design, graphics, hugh marwood, shaun morris, surface gallery
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baby shoes
if you’ve seen my twitter feed, then you’ll know i’ve been drawing a lot of shoes recently. i’d wanted to document all of my daughter’s footwear from when she was first born (just over a year ago), and had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple pencil, art, chris cowdrill, digital drawing, digital illustration, drawing, illustration, ipad drawing, procreate, shoes, sketch, sketchbook
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a minor place
i recently worked on publicity material for an exhibition of work by friends and past collaborators hugh marwood, shaun morris and andrew smith at artists workhouse in studley. the exhibition was described as “working across a range of practices including … 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
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
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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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