At the start of the year I discoved FLEXBOOKs, which I instantly fell in love with. The ones I'm using have less than 100 pages of heavy paper which I really like, they also lie flat so working right across a spread is a big plus:). This a small selection of sketches created for both personal and commercial jobs over the last 12 months using pencil, Unipin fibre tips, Letraset ProMarkers and watercolour.
I usually post a couple of new sketches a week on my Facebook page :))
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Native birds of Ireland (mostly :)
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The morning queue for coffee can be murder :)
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#onthedraw in La Palma
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#onthedraw in La Palma
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too much time spent on planes
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'Embrace what you love!'
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type study
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build cities on hills - it throws up more design challenges and as a result a more creative solution:)
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free the birds!
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up town / down town
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profile pic
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playing with type
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