A limitation on my illustration work is that I can only work small on my old iPad Air. It's comfortable physically, but I can't made a double spread in one image, I have to work two separate pages. I have a maximum of 9 layers for the canvas size I use for each page in Procreate, but it gets tetchy and crashes a lot after about 6, so I have developed a method of saving the work, merging the layers, continuing with additional work on the image, merging again, and so on until the illustration is finished. I keep a work in progress folder on the MacBook where I store the documents with intact layers, and bounce back and forth by Airdrop between that and my iPad.
I faced similar issues when I was doing a lot of pattern-making, but developed methods to get around the limitations, which have come in unexpectedly handy now for working double-spread illustrations. This rolling sea image is a perfect example; above shows how it would look on a single page, below demonstrates how it flows across two pages when they are put together. Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my illustration and patterns blog.
I illustrate under the pen-name of Binky McKee, McKee being my mother's maiden name. Binky was the name of every single cat my great-grandmother kept - allegedly about 40 of them during her 94 years of life. I changed the website address a few months ago, so some older links on previous posts are broken. If you click one of those and it takes you to a strange page, simply replace the .co.uk after the binkymckee. with weebly.com and it will work again. I hope you enjoy your visit! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I keep lots of scrapbooks and sketchbooks where I develop ideas and design little creatures. Here's a peek inside one ...
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As you may know, I am also known as Heather Eliza Walker.
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April 2024
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This time, take a peek into my ceramic design sketchbook. I actually made some of the mugs, but I kind of prefer the drawings! The plate designs are painted on paper plates, a most liberating process.
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These watercolours are from my pattern sketchbook. I used coloured wax crayons to resist the washes of watercolour, also home-made rubber stamps dipped in bleach then printed on crêpe paper - the bleach takes out the paper dyes.
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A sketchbook I used for mark-making with unusual objects - corks, seed-heads, feathers, home-made rubber stamps, my fingers and lots of flicky things ...
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