The Nautical ABC project | A is for anchor

I've decided to set myself a personal drawing project - called The Nautical ABC project. 26 days | 26 letters all relating to everything nautical. The challenge is to incorporate the object the letter stands for in the letter shape. Here's the first one - A is for Anchor.

I aim to post regularly and you'll be able to check up on the progress here.

Do you have any personal drawing projects? Leave your answers in the comments below!

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Make your own Handwriting font!

Something which I love to use in my work is handdrawn typography. I also especially like using my handwriting to make labels and product names - as you can see on the Tea & Biscuit badge pack below.

Normally I would write the word that I would like to have on a scrap of paper, scan it in, trace it and then convert it in illustrator.  However just recently I've discovered that I can now create an entire font with my handwriting really easily and cheaply and it works so well! Here is an example of the font I've created- just click on the image to be taken to the yourfonts site- amazingly it took me less than 15 minutes to create mine.

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Love is in the air...

In between travelling and packing and sorting boxes for our move I've been working on some wedding invite designs for my brother-in-laws upcoming wedding. Starting with a pencil sketch and then inking in with my favourite Rotring pens it was then transferred to the computer to colour and tweak- I'm still waiting to hear thoughts on the colours but wanted to blog on this happy project! It's also started to give me ideas for valentines day...

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Emmy's Illustration

It was my niece's 1st Birthday on Sunday and as usual I was leaving things a bit late to head for the shops, so I ended up deciding to do a wee illustration based around her age. It has been hand-drawn with pen and ink and then painted with liquid acrylic to make a bright piece of artwork that I hope she will admire in years to come!

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