Armistice day

Thinking of all the soldiers.

Tilly on Computer Arts inspiration blog

The good folk of Computer Arts magazine have featured my work on their Inspiration blog here. What a tip top way to start the week, cheers chaps.

Brick Lane Banter

Here's an illustration I did on the interesting folk in Brick Lane.

Studio Space

We have a desk space going for an illustrator in our ace studio in Brighton, a stones throw from the sea and I wondered if any of you out there would like to join us on our inky adventures!? If you live near by drop me an email tilly@runningforcrayons.co.uk for details, your welcome to pop round for a brew and to see the space.

Thank you Margaret Kimball

A while back I was asked to be on the wonderful blog We Heart Illustration which is curated by the talented illustrator and designer Margaret Kimball. The other day on twitter Margaret was putting together a lovely package for a lucky recipient, I commented how wonderful it looked, well lo and behold I pop into my studio only find this beauty on my desk! This lovely print will most definately be gracing my walls and check out the crayon drawings on the envelope! Margaret your ace! Thanks :)

Go check out Margaret's fantastic work!

Tick Tock Tilly

Here are some watches I did the other day for my agency Eastwing and something else I will reveal soon!

Festival frolicking

Above is the illustration I did for my agency Eastwing about summer music festivals. I love music festivals and I always try to make my way to a few each year. I love the effort people go to with fancy dress, full of creative craziness, with the token fairy wings and the inevitable Mexican hat blocking people's views!

Being a rather small individual I usually struggle to see the stage and spend most of my time dodging plastic cups as I balance on a friends shoulder so I can grab a glimpse of the act, if I had the nerve I would attempt to crowd surf but I have always been to nervous! Maybe one day I'll brave it!

Tilly is now represented by Eastwing Agency!

I am now represented by the fine folk at Eastwing Agency! Pretty chuffed to be among other super talented illustrators such as Paul Blow, Lizzy Stewart, Lucie Sherdien and Zara Picken to name a few. I'm off to toast myself with an Earl Grey, tomorrow's my Birthday so I'll keep the champers on ice for now.

Tilly for the New Statesman

Here is the latest illustration to be printed, currently inking up next issue's. I'm thoroughly enjoying this monthly job, muchos fun.

We ❤ Illustration feature

The tip top blog We Heart Illustration has featured of my work and there's a little interview up there too. I was asked some rather ace questions, that certainly got my brain ticking, go have a peek.

Margaret Kimball also has some amazing work and you should certainly click your way through her ace site!

Cupcakes and Wine

I went to have a gander at Glynde festival on the weekend, with wellies one and brolly in hand! Here is a few pics of the MasterChef winners who were doing demo's (but no tasters to our disappointment!) and the brochures with my illustrations on. I have to say we spent most of the day tasting all the English wines and stuffing cupcakes.

Lots more work to post shortly, waiting for work to be released before I can post!

Posh food innit

I'm going to the Glynde Food and Wine Festival this weekend to not only stuff my face with posh nosh and try and have have a natter with the lovely Val Warner who's food is a delight, but to go take some snaps of all my inky goodness being displayed and modelled by staff, here are some pics of my work embellishing the website. Go grab yourself a ticket!

Lets do Launch

The lovely Pip from Meet me At Mikes let me know about the great tumblr Lets do Launch (which had featured my Space Hoppers). They have some amazing space photo's up there, these are a couple of my favourites
Originally from:
1>0 Led Zepplin
2>) Kissy kissy
3.) ace wallpaper dude

Love me do - round 2

Love is in the air!

Been asked to do lots of wedding love hearts lately and here is the second one for the fine couple Harry and Mona.

Tilly gets a mention over at Meet Me At Mikes

I've noticed a mahoosive number of fine folk having a gander over here the last couple of days, my ears where burning but it wasn't until a lovely blogger told me her route to this blog that I knew who to Thank. The lovely Pip of Meet Me At Mikes has done a glorious feature of my work and it certainly brightened up the studio on these super gloomy days (oh how I love British weather). Go make your way down under through cyber space and have a flick through her awesome blog, full of lots of crafty projects and generally all things ace! Thanks Pip.

Love me do

This was a commission for the lovely new couple Mr and Mrs Winslade, a collection of all things they love together, oh bless ain't that sweet!

Tilly for New Statesman new magazine Charity Insight

I've been doing a monthly illustration for the fine folk over at the New Statesman for their new sister magazine Charity Insight. This is the one I did rather quickly last month and I'm currently inking up a 'LOVE' tattoo for next months.

Tilly, Running For Crayons on Tigerprint

The lovely chaps Tigerprint have done a feature on my work on their blog here, tar muchly Tigerprint folk.

spotted

Spotted the first piece of advertising for Glynde Place in Bill's Brighton yesterday.

Glynde Place Food and Drink Festival

Here is the full illustration which I spotted on some advertising the other day.

I'm going to the festival where I will snap away some good shots of handsome waiters being the canvas for my inky drawings of pigs on spits and take advantage of being able to put a deluxe food hamper on work expenses.

Glynde Place Food and Drink Festival Sneak peek

Here is a little peek at a job I finished recently for Glynde Place Food and Drink Festival, it's going to be used on T-shirts, all of the promotion and their website. It was a great and mammoth one to work on. I'll upload the full beast soon, which you should go to!

Tilly's t-shirt for Threadless. Go vote (again)!

Hey, so I have finally done a T-Shirt for Threadless, it was good timing for the 50th anniversary my Space Hoopers, seen below. Go vote for my design, it would be ace to have it printed! tar muchly.

**Update** Lots of people asked to see a closer version of the T-Shirt so I resubmitted it, so I had to start from scratch with votes, so please pop over HERE and click *5* for me again. Thanks very muchly!

Running For Crayons - Space Hoppers

Something I have been working on lately

Creative Review and a 99p with Quentin

Creative Review just ran a little quick competition on Twitter - to tell or twitpic/draw them an illustration-themed lie; mine was 'I spend the summer in Bognor with Quentin and a 99p with a flake'. It didn't win but I did only have 15 minutes, I wish this wasn't a lie I'd love to have Quentin as a chum.

Bognor and an Animal Collective

This week has been grand, lots of drawing going on - I've been working on some illo's for a rather brilliant holiday camp/resort, making me reminisce of donkey rides and floppy hot dogs.

Here's my animals all herded up together.

Running For Crayons - Matrix Creative Marketing

Here are a few of the full illustrations that I posted as sneak peeks the other week. I was asked by Matrix to do a series of illustrations for an exhibition they were doing. They were great clients to work for, after completing the 6 illustrations they commissioned me again to do a life size cut out of a couple of my characters, in the style of a pier comedy portrait - had a blast doing them all.

Running For Crayons - ABC sneak peek

Here is another sneek peek, this time it's the B I did for the ABC project. My text was about a troop of bandit baboons building the letter B, from their victims belongings.

Music Crush The Boxettes - Free

I got introduced to these super talented girls this week by a friend of mine who went to school with some of them. This tune is SO good, it makes me mega jealous, (I sound like a cat drowning) not only their amazing voices/beat boxing but check out the lush dresses!

Running For Crayons - ABC project

I am lucky to be involved in the 'abc-project' book, it has some amazing illustrators such as Big A Band, Simon Wild, Lucy Davey, Stanley Donwood and Karolin Schnoor, to name just a few and I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone's work together.

They have put the photo's from Creative Boom up on the news page, go have a peek, where you can see all the news and the other illustrators.

Tuesday Morning Chuckle

Ha, ha, I know it's hideous to dress up your pets but this made me chuckle and anything on a gloomy day that makes me laugh gets top marks!

(via katemiss)

Sneaky Peekah

Here is a little sneeky gander at some illustration I finished this week, they were 6 in total and they have asked me to do another one next week which is nice of them. I'll post them all proper when they printed.

Music Crush - Angus & Julia Stone - You're the one that I want - Rolling Session#12

I know I'm posting the same band but press play and your see why. A brilliant cover (a rare thing) for a Friday, brought a smile to my face. Enjoy.

Music Crush - Angus and Julia Stone - Mango Tree

My sister suggested I listen to this band the other day and I LOVE them. The just sound perfect and really appropriate for the spring like optimism in the air. They have lots of good tunes, my other favourite is Paper Aeroplane, just brilliant.

Illustrator crush

Just been over at the ace Pikaland and been catching up on my blogging and discovered the A-M-A-Z-E illustrator Angela Fox, loving the bright colours and she seems to have a love for the bulbous round shapes for her peeps too. Go have a gander at her work here.

Running For Crayons st st st studio

The brilliant blog Creative Boom have featured our studio space, see here as their first readers studio article! Muchos happiness and thanks goes to David for choosing us, cheers.

Here are a few pics that didn't go on the Boom. Have a gander at the rest of there blog it got some awesome designers on there and lots of ace things to keep you eyes excited!

Cheers Charlie for snapping away on a Sunday!