Pablo Auladell

I thought I would share with you a wonderful artist I have recently discovered:

His combination of charcoal drawing and colour is very inspiring to me, as are his wonderful textures.

"Pablo Auladell was born in Alicante, Spain, in 1972. He is longsighted, self-taught and has got no cat at home. He recieved the Second Best Illustrated Book for Children Award in 2005 (Spanish Ministry of Culture) for Peiter, Peter and Peer and other Andersen Tales, and the Best New Talented Author Award in the 'Saló del Cómic de Barcelona' 2006 for the comic-book La Torre Blanca. He is currently working as freelance illustrator in Alicante."



http://pabloauladell.blogspot.com/

http://www.pabloauladell.com/ines-azul/

Digital colouring

pen drawing

character sketch

Chickens

Continuing with the theme of drawing animals:

Following on from my sketches, this is a concept drawing for a story about a woman trying to find imaginitave ways to kill a chicken:

charcoal drawings

cat sleeping on brick barbeque

Watercolours

These are the new watercolour paints I got for my birthday from my cousin Chris - I was playing around with them during the heat wave. I am trying to get back to observational drawing this summer as I don't want to neglect it. Here's my feeble attempt to paint some logs:



Chris is an illustrator too. He does very beautiful watercolours of wildlife, and has gone all the way to Peru to paint from first hand observation. Mine look so sucky next to his! Watercolour is easily the most challenging media for me.

Have a look at his website if you can: http://fieldillustrator.com/