Wednesday 24 April 2013

Illustrating Springtime...

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:

Sanne said...

Have you ever considered making prints of your drawings? These helleborus would for sure look lovely in a frame on my living room wall.

abigail*ryan said...

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

Shurmmi said...

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