OB Illustration London

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“A very inventive and original illustrator.” - Sue Grayson Ford, The Campaign for Drawing web: http://obrotheridge.com

Friday, 20 June 2014

Sketches: where IDEAS are born!

Revealing very first sketches (and the notes I made with them!) for the Big Draw poster commission - the first idea can be a winner, or can develop totally unexpectedly! 

1. Flamingo Drawing

Either people drawing flamingos, or the other way around!


2. Cupid



3. Drawing the World

People using art materials to create the world around them, world becoming more realistic in places, maybe a squirrel climbs through…



4. Pencils Don't Grow on Trees



5. Kids drawing

People drawing on the floor on lots of coloured paper, I could make a kind of pattern out of people and art materials. 



6. Pencil sharpener




6. Pencil sharpening


Ants either climbing or drawing on a roll of pencil sharpening that has been dropped outside – possibly grass shoots around. Coloured pencil flakes on ground. Could be quite graphic or earthy.
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However crudely done, I wanted to show how important sketching out ideas is when developing how you think about something! And that I love the 'first ideas' part !

Thank you - and thank you Big Draw!

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Sunday, 15 June 2014

The Big Draw & It's Our World

For this year's festival of creativity, The Big Draw are joining forces with It's Our World and Faber Castell. They have just launched their promotional set of posters, banners and certificates - illustrated by moi. 

I used Faber Castell's beautiful watercolour pencils, and had a little inspiration (above) from the Paul Klee exhibition at the Tate Modern earlier this year.

The Big Draw runs throughout October every year, with 280,000 people expected to take part in over 1000 events across 21 countries this year!

Look on the site for events, and if you can host one, download my posters!

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Lovely Klee colour blocks inspired the top poster