Angelina Jolie

http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/angelina-jolie-biography.jpg

The link above is the ref pic I used.
Pretty hard, about an hour to draw.
I'm trying to draw people and get a somewhat likeness since I find it so hard. I always end up trying to make up bits and it comes out completely different to who I'm supposed to be drawing!
More to come :) I might do a celeb drawing blog just get me going.

Pencil Sketches

This one is just a few sketches together of my two german shepherds, they don't half move around alot! This one was about 20 minutes, each image taking a few of minutes.

This one I will add more in photoshop and make it a 'multi-media' piece. Or at least try to!
(Disclaimer: Symbol on the shirt is not mine, it is Slipknot's logo... since his favourite band is Slipknot!) This one is not a pencil actually... its a fine liner! Only about 10 minutes

A recreation of the Gnome from World of Warcraft since I've been playing it this summer... (Tell me what realm your on!) Probably about 40 minutes worth of drawing.

My mum and doggies asleep around the couch... its been a very lazy day today! Probably a 10 minute sketch.

This was a tattoo idea, pin up, nothing special, though for some reason the rose looks more like a cabbage, the cabbage lady! This took about 40 minutes maybe a little longer.


Not sure what to say about these! I felt inspired to draw, the need to draw. Just a few to keep me going through the day. :)

All images are © harliejayneillustration

Andy Smith!

Loving these crisp packets! Making me hungry...
Im loving the contrast of colours with the crisps accordingly, like the streaks in the bacon streaks packet make me think of a crispy bacon butty right now... The typography works so well with each flavour, saucers are a very spacey font and the dino's are really stone age-ish! Bloody fantastic!

Found this guy's work when browsing through some illustrators. Love his work. I think I should be taking inspiration from the likes of his works, mainly because I'm not that great at my composition or colours!

http://www.andysmithillustrator.blogspot.com/

He has an exhibition in bristol 25th june till the 20th august, hopefully Ill be able to go there and have a look at his work! Bit of a trek but its worth it!

This one reminds me of a brief we did recently called How To. We had to make an image that would inform the viewer and educate I guess... I shall post mine up after this and explain! But more about Andy Smith. I love the sort of toony look he gives his drawings but they are so accurate! The typography always compliments his work, I need to learn to make better use of outlines aswell. I think the layering of his work is an important part of his work too.

Ill post more of his stuff as it comes, really great illustrator!

Handpainted Converse by moi! :) Just posting this up to make it look... less... empty?

Noobin' it up.

Hi guys and girls. New to blogging so please bare with! This is for my summer project for my degree and I shall be posting images and the like twice a week or more to blog how my summer is going and what I've been getting up to!

I'll probably post things that are not related to my degree as well, but they will still be just as important :) Enjoy!