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feat Make Art That Sells Adolie Day's step by step illustration process

Adolie Day’s step by step illustration process

Adolie Day’s step by step illustration process Adolie Day was previously represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. In this blog post, she explains her step by step illustration process for creating a character for the front cover of a journal. Adolie writes: “Hi Lilla! Here (finally) is an overview of my work process for creating a character, I hope it will answer some questions. For the first step I draw with anim pencil in blue. I then turned to the light table to improve it, make it more readable, clean, adjust my line and add details sharper. I then add some values ​​in blue ink. I scan and begin working on Illustrator forms (the tablet). I draw some bodies, details, printed, peas … and import them into Photoshop. Sometimes (not here) I scan funds in watercolor, fabric, I import photos to bring the material. For the rest I’m working on Photoshop, with

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Interview with illustrator Trina Dalziel

An Interview with iLlustrator Trina Dalziel Trina Dalziel is a freelance illustrator who is represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. Her clients in the UK include: Mini Boden, Cico Books, Duncan Baird Publishers, HarperCollins, Hodder and Stoughton, Sainsbury Magazine, She, World Wildlife Fund. In the USA, her clients include: Air Continental, BlueQ, Body and Soul Magazine, Boston Globe, Chronicle Books, Delicious Living, Family Circle, Land of Nod, Madison Park Greetings, Real Simple, Scholastic, Spa Magazine, Time Asia, Yoga Journal She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, Anglia Ruskin University, University of Wolverhampton, Southampton Institute, University of Central Lancashire, Middlesex University, University of the Creative Arts Maidstone. For this interview with illustrator Trina Dalziel, Trina was interviewed by Deborah Henry-Pollard. Trina told us: “Thought you might like to read this. It was for the blog of a lovely woman called Deborah Henry-Pollard, who I met last week at

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Love your customer …

  Some of Lilla’s pottery projects. This is an extract from a wonderful blog that I enjoyed a great deal, by Whitney Smith, a potter from Oakland, California. Love your customer, even when you don’t Whitney writes: “I worked a few jobs in high school that required constant interaction with the public, and I learned — as did my supervisors — that customer service was not my forte. People would get on my nerves with their foolish expectation that I should serve them quickly and politely. I would shake with indignation if a customer gave me attitude. Of course I was young and untrained, and I had little idea what the word “customer service” meant, only that it sounded like somebody else’s job. I thought being an artist and escaping into my studio every day was a great way to avoid having too many encounters with the general public. I

blog trina inschriach bluepoppy Make Art That Sells Using natural inspiration to make a repeat floral pattern

Using natural inspiration to make a repeat floral pattern

How to use your sketches to make a repeat floral pattern Trina Dalziel is an illustrator who is now represented by Lilla Rogers Studio. She recently got in touch to share her process for creating surface design, and showed us how she used inspiration from a visit to a local nursery to make a repeat floral pattern. Trina’s photos from Inshriach plant nursery in the Highlands in Scotland. Trina wrote:  “I thought you might like to see how my collection of repeat patterns named Inshriach started. Last May, I went home to Scotland to visit my parents. On my Mum’s birthday, we went to Inshriach plant nursery, which is in a wood at the foot of the Cairngorm Mountains in the Highlands. They have a little café that sells amazing cakes made by the owner’s Norwegian wife and where you can sit and watch squirrels and birds in the trees

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talk on nurturing creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk on nurturing creativity Elizabeth Gilbert, the amazing author of Eat, Pray, Love  recently gave a great TED Talk. This part really stuck out to us: I am a writer. Writing books is my profession but it’s more than that, of course. It is also my great lifelong love and fascination. And I don’t expect that that’s ever going to change. But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career, which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work. And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book, this memoir called Eat, Pray, Lovewhich, decidedly unlike any of my previous books, went out in the world for some reason, and became this big, mega-sensation, international bestseller thing. The result of which is that everywhere I go now, people treat me like I’m

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38 Tips to be more Creative

  This is a great piece you might enjoy. I found it here. Enjoy it! So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years:

TRINA DALZIEL3 Make Art That Sells Trina Dalziel: 4 good things and 4 not so good things about being an illustrator

Trina Dalziel: 4 good things and 4 not so good things about being an illustrator

Trina Dalziel shares her thoughts Illustrator Trina Dalziel shares her thoughts on what’s good and not so good about being an illustrator. Read on to find out what she thinks – do you agree? Art by Trina Dalziel for Illustrating Children’s Books . Good Things 1. I get to draw and make things and paint and design and do all the same things I’ve loved doing since I was a child. I can work from home or a studio. I can start and stop work when I choose each day. I can have a weekend in the middle of the week if it suits me better. 2. At the ideas stage of a project I can take my sketchbook to a cafe and make plans there. I can work in my garden. I can go and visit my family and take my work with me. 3. When I’m doing the