A beautiful World with Pukka and WWF

A few months back I was contacted by Brighton-based Neo advertising agency and asked to create some illustrations for the awesome herbal tea company Pukka, who were celebrating their 10 year anniversary and helping support WWF by brewing up a lovely new tea alongside a campaign named 'A Beautiful World'.

The campaign aims to celebrate the natural world in which Pukka grow the herbs for their eclectic range of teas and to raise awareness of the efforts made to conserve our beautiful world! Every year Pukka plant more than 20 millions plants and trees, and invest in renewable energy, sustainable projects and reforestation programmes. The partnership with WWF - UK is designed to raise more than £50,000 for the charity's global projects!

I was honoured to be involved in this project and massively enjoyed making what essentially was a large scale doodle pattern inspired by the Pukkapedia and the beauty of nature, which was then chopped and moved around and animated in order to create the backdrop for the campaign's microsite!

Please check out the site and support the campaign at: 

http://www.pukkaherbs.com/beautifulworld 

also find out more about the project by following this link:

http://www.weareneo.com/blog/pukka-starts-something-beautiful

...and don't forget to look out for the specially designed tea in your local supermarket!

mermaid sketch

first scribbles, more to come :)

Shooter girl game character

Recieved a cool little character design brief from Dynamo - reinvent a character from an online game. Here goes:

and the coloured version:

 ...that was fun :)

Quick colour practise...Been experimenting with colour-roughing and painting quickly! Still playing a little safe, but it's fun to see things appear fast on the page! :)

Quick doodle time

Long time, no blog! Dynamo is keeping me busy with lots of projects...not really allowed to upload most of that yet though!
I do get a bit of spare time to do some doodles now and again, I just need to become better at uploading them!! This sketch started when my good friend Faye Simms complained about not being very good at painting ears (she is, she's just overly critical), as we were sat working together late last night. I started drawing an ear, agreeing that they are rather tricky to get right. Then I attached a face to the ear and then the face started sprouting a lot of mad hair, and turned into this :) A fun half-hours distraction from all those goblins and fairies I've been drawing recently!

New work

I'm currenty trying to develop my portfolio by doing a couple of pieces with children's fiction in mind - here are a few sketches, character development drawings and works in progress...hopefully I'll get them finished up soon!

The dragon children

A gift for my siblings in Norway - Alvilde, Emilie and Herman - who are magical, fierce, brave and beautiful and who I love very much x