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Tag Archives: drawing
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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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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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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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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cards
here’s some new card designs i’ve put together for a craft fair i’m doing in a couple of weeks. they are all taken from drawings in my sketchbook that have been done in development of other work. i hope you … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artwork, card, chris cowdrill, coffee, craft, creative, drawing, flowers, greetings card, illustration, robot, sagrada familia, stationery
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indigo octagon vol.4: the compulsive orgonists of west bromwich
indigo octagon is the collaborative arts group i’m involved with (along with artists shaun morris and andrew smith), and i am pleased to present our fourth publication to you here (it’s free to view on issuu). volume 4: the compulsive … Continue reading
