Drawings, Art, Maps and other Curiosities
blog about the work of Abi Daker
Last year I lived in a rather beautiful stone building with an enormous, high-ceilinged bedroom. Details »
My Old Room
As anyone who follows me on Twitter will be aware, I live halfway up a hillside in Cyprus. Details »
Mesogi
The illustration on the left was created for Tsangarides Winery last year and was used on their white wine labels (image below). The brief required a drawing of the local area (Lemona) in a traditional style.
Illustration for Tsangarides Wine Label
These illustrations were created along with Lesley Barnes to accompany an article about Professor Brian Cox, physicist and former keyboard player in D:Ream. The article (written by Amelia Gregory) has just been published on Amelia’s Magazine.
The time frame for these illustrations was fairly short, just a couple of days and the illustrations were passed back & forth between both artists. The portraits were hand drawn & coloured and then edited digitally.
These drawings were the original unedited sketches that were used in the final piece.
Prof. Brian Cox for Amelia’s Magazine
7 Sins Illustration.
This bit of illustrated typography was created in response to the 7 Sins contest brief which required entrants to create artwork based around the theme of the 7 Deadly Sins.
The illustration was created using a mixture of pencil, pen & ink, watercolour, magic marker and fineliner and the original size of the digital file is 70cm x 100cm.
7 Sins
Archaeological Illustrations.
These illustrations were supplied many years ago for Warwick council’s archaeological department. They were created using Rotring pens. I have forgotten the scale but they used fairly standard conventions.
The illustrations variously depict thimbles, stones from a church, buckles & jewellrey.
