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Here’s a few illustrations we have been working on recently, from a brave squirrel to a magical unicorn in a tutu. If you would like to see more of our illustration work you can visit our portfolio or follow our progress on our Instagram at @pipandrach.
We would also be sharing a few Christmas illustrations soon, so keep an eye out on our Instagram page.
This cheeky and brave squirrel is all ready to lasso this rather cute giant acorn.
A midnight feast with an imaginary friend.
We are delighted to announce that our elephants that we have painted for Worcester’s Big Parade have raised £16,400 collectively, for the wonderful St Richards Hospice. We are so pleased to have been part of this wonderful event in aid of such a lovely charity, and its been fantastic to have our elephant’s displayed around the streets of Worcester!
If you would like to find out more check out our Instagram:@pipandrach or visit Worcester’s Big Parade website or take a peek at Wild in Art website.
So happy to have been shortlisted for the Ethicool illustration competition! You can vote for our illustration: Vote Here Just follow the steps and vote for Rachael and Phillippa.
We are so grateful for all your votes and support!
The illustration is about a quiet non-verbal girl who communicates through music and drawing. We decided to create a joyful and happy scene showing the girls thoughts and words flowing though music and drawings.
We are so pleased to have been chosen to paint two elephant sculptures for @worcsbigparade 🐘🐘 We can't wait to get painting and adding some bright colours them🎨 😊😊 Worcester's Big Parade is public art trail which opens the 12th of July. 🌻🌿 See more of our progress on our instagram: @pipandrach
Hello all, It has been great to produce some fun and playful colouring pages for Idle Hands colouring booklet with Illustrator and animator Dan Castro and other fantastic illustrators. Idle Hands is a free colouring and activity booklet to help encourage creativity for children during lockdown.
Take a peek here: idle-hands
Idle Hands, Colouring pages by Illustrator Dan Castro and other fab illustrators
One of our contributions to Idle Hands colouring booklet
We have designed some free printable activity sheets. You can download them by clicking on the image and then right click on the image and save to downloads.
Some of the activities include making decorative Llamas, mazes and colour and find activities.
We have created some designs for fine art prints and wall art at FY. Here is the link if you would like to take a look! FYPrints
Some of our designs include a Magical Wizard print, a Buzzy Bee art print and a Tiger in the jungle print. All of FY’s art prints use sunlight-resistant inks on cotton mix archival paper. All prints are available in multiple sizes and are available framed in oak, white and black wooden frames.
Designing some book covers as part of a personal project. For the Peter Pan (By J.M. Barrie) front cover we decided to paint a night time scene with the text overlaying the moon to draw the viewer eye into the cover. We wanted to include small parts of the story into the cover like Tinkerbell and the pirate ship which draws your eye around the cover and gives the viewer things to spot. We decided to have the sea at the bottom of the cover which adds depth and gives visual interest to the book. We also blended the colours of the sea and sky to create a misty effect and capture the fantasy and far away feel of the book. The different plants around the outside adds a whimsical touch.
For the Jungle book Cover (written by Rudyard Kipling.) We decided to use a warm colours using mostly oranges and yellows. We wanted to include a scene of the story into the book cover so we decided to have Mowgli with Bagheera on a tree branch to make the characters the focus of the cover and draw your eye up to the title. For the text we decided to to place it at the top-middle and uses the same colours on the text as we did in the illustrations to link them together. We decide to make the word “Jungle” bigger to give it visual hierarchy and add a sense of play to the cover. The tree running down the side of the cover draws you to the main characters on the tree branch and brings the whole cover together.
We have been working on some illustrations inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book. We have design a set of illustrations inspired by the playful and well-known characters such as Baloo the bear and Mowgli.
We started of by sketching the characters in different positions and capturing their movements and overall body language. We then used black inks to outline the characters and add subtle areas of shading with a soft paintbrush. We then created details such as fur and created delicate line work with a fine-line pen.
Mowgli in pen and inks
Designing a fun cat character in a cosy jumper. Love playing with pattens and textures to create this cosy cat. We often get an idea for a picture book sparking of one character and love playing around with a character, getting to know them and drawing them in lots of poses. When we created this character it sparked a series of questions ‘Why is he wearing a jumper?’ maybe it was knitted for him by a kind granny for him when he was just a little kitten. “ What kind of Jumper?’ A knitted one, slightly too big. ‘What could happen next?’ Maybe the jumper starts to unravel and cause lots of chaos!
We begin to create a framework around this character and his beloved knitted jumper. We are not yet sure where its going to take us and are continuing to develop the character and his story.
