Greetings!

This is one of a series cards that I'm working on for my 

portfolio and an upcoming show. I really like designing cards as 

I can never find exactly the one I want in the shops and this is

a satisfying way of rectifying that, I hope people have the same taste as me, I'm worried it's all gone a bit saccharine and twee but to be honest, sometimes that's what I want! teehee x Enjoy!

Mouse Card 1.

Lickety Split!

I started on a new picture today,  well it consisted of sketching out a few ideas and collecting reference from the internet, I decided I wanted to illustrate the age old favourite 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' (Edward Lear is one of my fave authors and one of my most treasured possessions is a copy of his 'Book of Nonsense', I researched images by illustrators and felt inspired to do my own interpretation, that and the fact that I'm desperate to draw an owl, and the sea and a cute kitty!


I was just doing some super quick scribbles, when I actually quite liked one of them, I think it was because I didn't feel ready to start labouring away on the intensely detailed version, so I decided to do a quick colour of the scribble... anywho, here tis;

...and the sketch book page it came from

Snowy Griffin and girl

Hello hello on this wondrously sunny spring afternoon! I have been busy getting this last picture ready for the folks at Advocate to take to Bologne today,  I think it came out o.k! Well I like it anyway, I think I prefer the cropped version which I have messed about with the hues, I think it looks a bit softer with a bit more  yellow in it, anywho, here are both versions... make up your own mind! Right I best get going, I have a book to design, eek! 

Over and out XxX

-Snowy griffin crop-

-Snowy Griffin- (whole-illustration)

Life aquatic

Hello! this post is my latest illustration, I had real fun doing it, apart from the slight queasiness I got from looking at too many reference pictures of warty toads, I had to start renaming photoshop layers from 'left hand toad warts' to 'left hand toad spots', as it was all getting a bit grim! Anywho, I hope you enjoy it.... Much Love! Jessica

-Thumbelina with toads (and trout)-

Something old, something new

Bonjour! I have finished colouring up my last post and I hope you like it.. I also thought I would post two other illustrations which aren't so new but thought they would be worth sharing; anywho.. yer tiz' (as the forest folk around here would say)

-Thumbelina in the Burrow- 

-Website opening page idea-

-BIG hug card-

Was feeling in need of a hug so came up with this!

Drawn whilst I was on the train to Hereford to visit 

my boyfriend, I was living in London at the time.

Going underground

Hello peeps, Since my last post I have been busy sketching away on this underground scene, it's again, roughly based on Thumbelina. I'm about to colour it up but thought I'd show it to you in it's raw form first,  kinda like the before and after, I hope you like it!!!! xxx

-Thumbelina in the burrow-

(with Red Breasted Flycatcher)

Latest Picture

This is the first one of four illustrations to strengthen my portfolio for Advocate, keep your eyes peeled for the next one y'all!

-Thumbelina-