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Starting out #2

By elise | Published: May 20, 2009
Here’s another one… #2 Folios 1. Don’t put anything in there that you don’t want to do! Sounds simple but it’s funny how often we assume we should cover everything. If you hate drawing technical pictures – don’t put them in your folio. If you hate a particular style that everyone else is doing, don’t put it [...]
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Starting out #1

By elise | Published: May 9, 2009
Last week in amongst markets, talks and meetings – was mentoring. There were three sessions, one hour each and it was terrific. I feel pretty privileged to get to see the work of people at all different stages of their careers – some just beginning, others well and truly on the way but perhaps just [...]
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space to breathe and think

By elise | Published: April 29, 2009
Here’s something brilliant about being an illustrator. I’m doing development for my Massive Book at the moment. It’s called The Collector as a working title but I think that’s about to change. The thing is – the story crosses between worlds, civilisations, even realities. So that means envisaging everything to do with these places. If [...]
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The three covers

By elise | Published: April 25, 2009
…are done! Complete, polished-off, kaput, done, done and done. (Do I sound relieved?) And I’m really happy with them. It’s been a very interesting project and a very hard one. Here are some of the unique challenges: * Having three dramatic phases of picture – usually there is one focal point and the rest organises itself [...]
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My Palette

By elise | Published: February 17, 2009
So the word Pallette can refer to two different things… 1. The actual surface people mix their paints on which can be anything from an icecream tub lid to a beautiful wooden thing with thumb-hole and all. 2. The range of colours that the artist uses when painting. One of the things that I noticed when I was [...]
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sound and vision

By elise | Published: November 28, 2008
Every now and then I’ll post something that influences my work. There are films, artworks, music and words that stir my imagination and resonate with what I’m doing or seeking to achieve. Other art-forms are brilliant for influencing us because we take what resonates and mold it into something new. I regularly turn to film [...]
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