Here’s my Christmas Gif, I made it for Ryan Todd's Christmasgifs site. it was built by enjoythis and features loads of awesome festive gifs. check it out - it’ll melt your mind!
I’ve been working on a series of London maps recently. They’re nearly all finished but I thought I’d just share with you a collection of people who feature on the streets on my maps.
I’m currently working on a series of London maps.
Here’s a little sneaky peak…
Portrait a week - Rebecca Adlington
I’ve tried to be a bit more adventurous this week in developing my new portrait style and have been using colour. I’m pretty please with the result and will probably try and experiment with my colour palette a bit more next week.
I’ve drawn Rebecca Adlington as she’s announced her retirement from swimming - she is the most successful british swimmer of modern times.
I also chose her because I was getting bored of drawing male politicians in suits, but in hindsight maybe water was a bit ambitious…
Portrait a week - Benjamin Netanyahu
Here’s this week’s portrait from my new side project to develop my painting style.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been in the news a lot recently due to him being re-elected as the Israeli prime minister last week - then again this week after a cartoon of him caused controversy when it was printed in the Sunday Times.
I’m enjoying this painting malarky, this illustration was done using pencil and ink with a bit photoshop tweaking afterwards. I need to be a bit more adventurous next week though I reckon.
Aesop Fable - Two Travellers and the Bear
Over the last couple of months I have been working on illustrating Aesop’s Fables. And here is the first, based in the story of two friend traveling together and what happens when they are confronted by a bear!
I really like Aesop’s fabels - considering that they are thought be to nearly 2000 years old its amazing how timeless they are.
Anyway I hope you like my interpretation. You can see a few crops from the picture below and I also have this illustration available on my shop as a Giclee Print HERE
p.s. please click on the above pic to zoom in.
A New Side Project -
I’ve decided to try my hand at portrait painting again. My plan for 2013 is to try and develop this style to put together a new painterly portfolio by doing a portrait a week from a recent news story.
This week’s illustration is a portrait of Obama during his inauguration on Monday.
Here’s another pattern that I’ve recently finished and will be am getting printed on fabric soon. Check out the blog post below if you’re interested in getting your hands on some Dancing Bear or Chairlift fabric.
The fabric is £40 per yard, please email kerryhyndman@hotmail.com to place your order.
I’ve been working on some patterns recently and will be sending off my designs to be printed onto fabric at the end of this week. This chairlift pattern comes in Grey, Mustard and Green. If you’re interested in getting your hands on some send me an email at kerryhyndman@hotmail.com and I’ll add your fabric to my order. I’ll place the order on Friday 25th Jan so let me know before then if you would like some.
The fabric is £40 per Yard and can be used for upholstry, cushions and tea towels.
p.s the yellow patten is not bigger I just zoomed in to show the detail!
I’ve been working on a personal project recently, trying my hand at a bit of story telling. It’s nearly finished but there’s still a lot of tweaking to be done before I send it off to print. So here’s a bit of a taster of things to come…
Before Christmas I was commissioned to create a personalised World Map print. The Map was to be given as a gift and include places that the recipient had lived, worked and visited. I also had it printed, framed and mounted and was pretty pleased with the end result.
If anyone else is interested in a personalised map please get in touch!
Roar! little peek at some work in progress…
The above images are from Professional Manager Magazine. I was commissioned by Think Publishing to do illustrations about virtual office spaces and giving corporate gifts.
I’ve just updated my website with lots of new work - I’ve made a few tweaks to the design of the site too…
Here’s my new Motel Christmas card for 2012, they are now available as a pack of ten on my online SHOP. I’ve also updated my shop with a couple of other bits and bobs.
caravan illustration
Here’s my new gig poster for Willy Mason gig at Gateshead old town hall you can buy tickets HERE
I was commissioned by DamnFine Media to draw the illustrations for three films to be shown on the Guardian website. For the films, entitled ‘How to be the president of the USA’, ‘The History of the Rebublican Party’ and ‘The History of the Democrat Party’, I needed to illustrate a number of Presidents along with a variety of expressions, additional characters and create costumes for all the chips who were to play the part of the american public!
The Films were American Diner / fast food themed and while filming I had to draw backgrounds and words in ketchup and mustard around the main characters.
It was strange week of filming, but now my ketchup drawing skills are pretty polished and I’m sure will come in useful again at some point!? It was also a refreshing change from my normal digital illustration style and it was nice to work on some portraits again.
You can see all three films HERE on the Guardian website, ‘How to be president of the USA’, ‘History of the Democrat Party' and 'History of the Republican Party’
