tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77244296673375301632024-03-13T02:58:44.660+00:00Miss Robinson's ArtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-38542723566222837762015-08-29T21:11:00.000+01:002015-08-29T21:11:30.127+01:00Surprise Dad!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As my Dad doesn't read this blog it's safe to show you all these beer mats I designed as a surprise for his birthday party next week, this <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/catseyepress" target="_blank">lovely ebay shop</a> is printing them for me. I can't wait to scatter them about and surprise my dad! These were made in Adobe Illustrator. I aged the photo using this excellent tutorial you can find <a href="http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/old-photo/" target="_blank">here</a>, to achieve a 'real ale' sort of traditional look.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-28381150736625380912015-08-05T15:59:00.002+01:002015-08-05T15:59:51.273+01:00Not dead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Teacher training really scuppered my blogging for a while. Here I am once more, with a just-completed oil painting of a drinks can. I'm pleased with the top of the can and the ring pull, and the lettering isn't bad. Hopefully the time I have this month will let me get some more paintings done, and I can finally realise my goal to enter something into an exhibition.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-47420518493201721392014-12-28T23:17:00.001+00:002014-12-28T23:17:24.076+00:00Dear Mr Potter...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a piece I did based on an earlier lino print. It shows a Hogwarts owl with a special letter for Harry Potter. After a long period away from digital illustration I am enjoying a return, and I'm looking forward to developing my work further.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-48356430652643460732014-12-21T16:56:00.000+00:002014-12-21T16:56:01.003+00:00The Cat That Walked By Himself - re-do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Having abandoned digital illustration for a while, I was tidying up my files today and in the process I discovered how much I enjoyed doing it. I found this piece from my (still ongoing and stalled due to time constraints) A-Z in literature project. It's the C entry, The Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard Kipling. I re-did the woman as she was getting on my nerves, and made some tweaks with texture, colour and the position of the cat's head. You can see the original <a href="http://illustratorrobinson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/c-is-for-cat.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-13909671529851138912014-12-16T18:54:00.000+00:002014-12-16T18:57:06.160+00:00Illustration Friday: The Sea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Studying a PGCE leaves little time for my own artwork which is sad, but now I have a little time off I have got back into the swing, with a watercolour piece for Illustration Friday. This week's theme: The Sea.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-69310479024815863142014-08-26T10:44:00.001+01:002014-08-26T15:46:14.872+01:00Inked up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A while back I wrote about a design I submitted for a fan art competition - a series of portraits of the original 80s transformers. Well, it didn<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">'</span>t win, and some of the designs in there were just amazing. But I was still pleased with my effort. A few friends on Facebook expressed their desire to have the design on a T shirt so I duly obliged. Here is the finished result. I am going to put this in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/GhostGoose" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a> at some point.<br />
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For those of you in the UK and curious, I used <a href="http://www.totalclothing.co.uk/" target="_blank">Total Clothing</a>. There was a screen print charge of £20 and each subsequent T shirt cost £5, so pretty reasonable. Its made me want to do more designs in this style (I will add it to my growing pile of unfinished or not-yet-started projects), maybe a Tardis, as the new Doctor is now gracing our screens?<br />
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I also completed a comic, Two for Joy, though I am not quite happy with it yet. I have found this project really daunting - getting the pacing right for a little graphic story is hard, and I always think my artwork could be better. But at least I finished it!<br />
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And finally, remember <a href="http://illustratorrobinson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/d-is-for-dark-lord.html" target="_blank">this illustration I did</a> of Dirk and Christopher?<br />
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They are characters from a book series called Dark Lord by Jamie Thomson, I just love them. I recently found out a third book has been released so I must get my hands on that. I can<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">'</span>t get these characters out of my head. I think I should expand them some more!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-59083606726127033312014-04-22T15:58:00.000+01:002014-04-22T15:58:02.308+01:00Educational...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-3535843944950458332014-03-12T14:44:00.000+00:002014-03-12T14:48:54.551+00:00Vote and help me (roll) out!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi all, I have entered a <a href="https://contest.welovefine.com/vote.php?id_contest=71&id_submit=27438#.UyBxWyjLg20" target="_blank">competition over at welovefine.com.</a> To celebrate 30 years of Transformers, they are calling for fan art submissions, and the winner ends up on a T shirt. There is a voting system, please do visit and vote for my design if you have time!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-34814803219505158662014-02-13T12:07:00.003+00:002014-02-13T12:08:38.788+00:00S is for Santiago<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So, this is the next instalment for my literary alphabet, and in a break from tradition, its not G... its S. S for Santiago from The Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. Its not yet finished and though I like it, there are still tweaks and experiments I want to try. I still really hate my F entry, Fagin, so that will need re-visiting at some point. <br />
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I have been working on an ink and brush comic which I should be putting up soon, I have nothing but respect for comic strip writers, laying a story out on a page is hard work!</div>
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Going to France to relax and soak some rays! See you all when I get back :-)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-23960269325389724582013-06-22T21:37:00.000+01:002013-06-22T21:37:02.170+01:00Moar stuff?!?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have finally got round to listing new products in my NOTHS shop - my weeks-in-the-making <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/hannahrobinsonillustration/product/the-colouring-book-for-grown-ups" target="_blank">Colouring Book for Grown Ups</a>, a new <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/hannahrobinsonillustration/product/if-you-need-me-sympathy-card" target="_blank">sympathy card</a>, a <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/hannahrobinsonillustration/product/i-call-shotgun-driving-test-card" target="_blank">congratulations on passing your driving test</a> card, and some lovely <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/hannahrobinsonillustration/product/four-black-white-illustrated-postcards" target="_blank">black and white illustrated postcards.</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-57405335927107997052013-05-26T12:05:00.003+01:002013-05-26T12:21:30.814+01:00E is for Esther...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...Trapped in the body of a teenage boy and sent to our world, having to endure indignities such as school, homework and detention. He befriends his complete opposite: a sweet, innocent boy named Christopher who tries to help him regain his terrifying form and return home. I’m a couple of decades out of the target reading age for this book but it didn’t stop me enjoying it. I think what I loved best is how much the two main characters seem to truly care about each other (deep deep down) and rely on each other. Like Harry Potter, this book appears at first glance to be about magic and fantasy, but to me it was equally about friendship. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Teenage-Years-Dark-Lord/dp/1408315114/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368560201&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=dark+lord+teemage" target="_blank">Dark Lord: The Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson</a></b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-33212903432895548772013-05-12T09:09:00.001+01:002013-05-12T09:19:47.468+01:00C is for Cat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This week’s illustration is of The Cat That Walked By Himself, by Rudyard Kipling. So far this project has made me look around and read new material, or re-read old books I used to love. You</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">d think that not having a TV would leave me more time to read, but actually I seem to spend a lot of time up in my studio doing art! Which is still great.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As part of my A-Z literary alphabet, here is poor Bilbo, running away from Smaug<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">'</span>s deadly flames!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-15262172024794347652013-04-29T23:13:00.000+01:002013-05-14T20:57:34.981+01:00A is for Anne <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Myself and my good friend and awesome illustrator buddy <a href="http://carlydraws.com/" target="_blank">Carlydraws</a> are currently doing a literary alphabet, with each letter connected to something in literature. My first letter is dedicated to Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I think my alphabet will be largely character based, but we will wait and see.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-81405733423475674632013-04-28T14:24:00.001+01:002013-04-28T14:24:43.542+01:00Harry Potter and the Graphic Design Awe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724429667337530163.post-43702374478559262262013-04-03T22:03:00.000+01:002013-04-03T22:09:49.980+01:00Find Me Keep Me - Peterborough 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What a buzzy Easter weekend. I was involved with an Arts Council funded project last week: Find Me Keep Me. It was a month in the making, and involved hiding art in the centre of Peterborough, UK, for members of the public to find. It was inspired by Free Art Friday in London, which you can educate yourself about on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt0-IhpF3Y" target="_blank">Youtube</a>, should the mood take you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were 52 artists involved, and we were divided into teams according to our discipline - I was put into the 2D art team. We met each week in the pub to discuss potential themes for our art, promotion and how we would hide our art on the special day. Do I even need to say that there was much more laughter and messing around than proper discussion?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But we DID manage to come up with a nifty promtion idea - a folding zine that showcased all our work, to be given out and hidden on the day. Here’s us with scalpels and stuff, showing off our folding skills.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our theme was ’treasure’, and I produced this illustration of various keys.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the day I hid it on the steps of the Guildhall in the square... turned my back for 30 seconds, and it had gone. Excited shiver...</span><br />
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On the day we alternated between hiding the art, and telling the pubic about Find Me Keep Me. We had all leafleted beforehand, as well as facebooking and tweeting about the project, but I was still amazed at the level of response. People had come into town especially to take part in the hunt, and I saw people <i>running</i> across the square with a map when they thought they’d found something! The whole thing was amazing, and I was lucky enough to see some delighted people discovering some art. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, so cool. Thanks to the organisers of this, I want to keep meeting up with all the people I met on this project, and hopefully organise some other stuff off the back of it! I hope it happens next year!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I thought I’d share some of the books I turn to again and again when I need inspiration. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Over the years I’ve accrued a great selection that keeps growing all the time. The following books inspire me in different ways. To try something new, to be myself, to have fun, to think carefully about composition, colour, character... I could go on and on. Instead, have a look at five of my favourite tomes: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tonight I went to a meeting with a bunch of other artists, poets, performers and sculptors, about a great new project that<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">'</span>s launching next month in Peterborough: Find Me, Keep Me, organised in conjunction with <a href="http://www.creativepeterborough.com/" target="_blank">Creative Peterborough</a>, and with funding from the <a href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/" target="_blank">Arts Council England.</a> The idea is we all create a piece of art and leave it somewhere in the city for people to find. Tonight we divided into groups and discussed what we would do, and how we would promote it. Very exciting and I can<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">'t wait t</span>o get started! If you follow my other blog, you<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">'ll see I love to <a href="http://haveagohannah.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/to-whoever-you-are-out-there.html" target="_blank">hide</a> bits of art in places for people to find already. At university I used to hide drawings or poetry in parks, fastened in jars, hidden in trees or under benches. It</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">'s going to be so great to do this with a group of other creative lovely people. Only 4 weeks to create, promote and hide, so I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">d better get planning. :-)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">This is my one hundredth blog post. Slightly shameful as I started this blog back in the mists of 2009. But hey-ho, I've got a lot better at regular blogging since I started, I've learnt so much in that time. Coincidentally, I also recently passed the 100 followers mark. Through the blogging world I have come across so many wonderful people, and seen so many amazing pieces of artwork, not to mention recipes, journals, articles, competitions... the list goes on. Illustration Friday, in particular, is to be thanked for providing me with a stimulus every week to create something, even though I haven't been able to take part every week. I can now honestly list blogging as one of my main hobbies. Having this blog has pushed me to keep drawing, painting, printing and playing, it's been a real lifeline and given me a reason to illustrate when I haven't felt like doing so. My second blog <a href="http://haveagohannah.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Have A Go Hannah</a>, launched last week, is proving to be tremendous fun too, in such a short space of time.</span></div>
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