Friday, June 01, 2007

The process

Inspiration.

Sketches.

More sketches.



And once the late night sketching has reached an end it gets scanned into the computer. From there the images go to photoshop, get cleaned up, sent to illustrator, coloured and put in repeat.
Once all the fun bits are done I then spend the next few weeks thinking about the printing quotes and costs, not so fun (oh yeah, and remembering to feed and dress the kids).

13 comments:

Manda said...

hi,
thanks for sharing the process... inspiration for those of us still yet to print anything (having thought about it forever.....)just wondering have you ever used a gocco? i'm trying to decide whether or not to ......
manda :-)

macati said...

hi!
loved watching the way your work evolved!!! and the result of it is so beautiful! kids of an artist suffer!
:)
manela

Anonymous said...

Beautiful stuff! And yes, it does look like fun. I can't wait until it is available.

Anonymous said...

wow thats very cool. love to see the work in progress.

Cosy said...

Thank you for sharing your work and process - I really enjoyed seeing it.

Anonymous said...

how cool, thanks for showing that!

Irma said...

gorgeous! what a talent!!!

Anonymous said...

I am huge fan of seeing the process and how people work so thank you for the insight. I like the bottom few photographs, these images look quite large.

molly | mommycoddle.com said...

and oh yeah, the kids...
too funny. I'm like that too, sometimes when I get in the creative zone.
seeing your work makes me wish i could draw. and come over for a lesson in illustrator!
i love the new stuff. can't wait to see the rest of the process.

Stacey said...

Oh gorgeous! I love those Art Nouveau style patterns.
You are really lucky to have such a talent. I'm limited to stick figures they are pretty awful even by stick figure standards.

Anonymous said...

I love your designs! They are very inspiring. In fact, I've been wondering how to get some of my ideas printed of fabrics, but I have no clue where to start... Any advice?

Anonymous said...

I've had you're website bookmarked for ages, but just found your blog. How exciting! What's the next stage in your process? Do you get all your fabric printed by a print shop?

Anonymous said...

hi there! great pattern...any advice on how to clean it up in photoshop. I have done the dust & sctartches and smoothing, but I think my lines still dont have that smooth finish.