Day of the Dead

Recently I’ve had a major hand lettering explosion – I’m slightly addicted (as you can see from my instagram – blog post coming soon) so I decided to mix it in with some illustration and create a little something for Dia de Muertos as I *love* the imagery associated with it :)

I thought the skulls would make an awesome pattern so I decided to throw that in too…

Both are available as prints, etc from my online shop (click the images). I am SUPER pleased with how these turned out. Creating stuff like this makes me so excited and happy!

You may also notice I’ve added a signature to these pieces. After lots and LOTS of experiments I’ve finally settled on a nice looking signature to put on my prints and illustrations (a standard copyright line is far too dry). Here’s a close-up; it is, of course, hand lettered :)

Fun times! I love what I do for a living sometimes (most times) :D

Sugar Skull

Apologies for yet ANOTHER “stuff in my shop” post but I’m slowly going through my old work and making it available to buy, so here we are :)

So, you can now buy some rather nifty products with my sugar skull illustration on them! Not all products are pictured here so you should go to my shop to have a nose around: http://society6.com/IllustrationbyJulia

Momento Mori

The other day I was overcome with the urge to draw a Mexican sugar skull…so that’s what I did!

I took inspiration from lots of different skulls I found, but mostly I made up the decorations. I also wanted to include the text ‘Momento Mori’ (‘Remember you will die’ if I recall correctly) and what better way to include text than on a banner? Pink is definitely the colour to deal with death :) (excuse the lowered quality of the image…the text is actually very clear). Overall I’m really pleased!

In other news I plan to be taking part in a few collaborative efforts in the very near future. The first is Find Chaffy, where illustrators create a panel showing his latest adventure;  the second is I would be… where illustrators/designers illustrate what they would be if they weren’t a designer. You’ll have to wait until I’ve done my illustration before I tell you! And last but not least Monstrous Collab; which will result in an A2 poster filled with characters (finger’s crossed I’d get picked!).

I’m soooooo excited to get going with these, so it probably won’t be long until they’re done. Sleep is for pansies…