Hand-illustrating beautiful flowers is a huge part of what we do here at abigail*ryan, and something we really love... each and every design, pattern, print and product starts with me photographing beautiful flowers, trying to find gorgeous silhouettes and forms that I know will work well with my style of drawing, and then painstakingly interpreting them in pen and ink...
I love making marks with ink, creating deep hatched details, and how you can show the undulations of papery natural forms with some flowing line-work, building up depth and intensity with each line and mark you make.
I also love seeing them transformed with colour later on - it's such a magical process.
Here are some Hellebore's I have been working on. These are becoming the forth napkin design in a box set we are set to launch very soon.
Yum!
A@a*r
3 comments:
Have you ever considered making prints of your drawings? These helleborus would for sure look lovely in a frame on my living room wall.
HI Sanne - YES! It's something we've thought about a lot, and we know a lot of our tea-towels end up in frames, so keep your eyes peeled in the future, as it's something we are certainly considering. XX
These are beautiful, you have no idea how much I appreciate this- hand drawn! I'm in an art school, and majority of the kids don't draw- which leaves me feeling odd.
You're so talented.:D
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