More sneaky peeeks...

A few more tiny looks at my project I'm not allowing myself to talk about.
A teeny bit more info here.

Stuff People Told Me To Draw

I tweeted and facebooked the fact that I'd bought a new A6 sketchbook and asked for people's ideas on what I should draw in it.

Below are the first ten suggestions that came in...enjoy!

One Good Thing - the comic (vol. 1)

Hey you cool dudes,

NEWS: I'm totally gonna have a comic out soon! It will be made up of the first month of my comic-diary-blog One Good Thing. I'm gonna to be selling them at £4 each. Not bad for 40 pages :)

I'll shout about them loads once they're printed, but for now enjoy these preview pictures and if you'd like to pre-order one email me (rachael(at)rachaelsmith.org).

Soz about the terrible quality of the pictures. I'm a cartoonist, not a photo-maker! xxx

Abbie

Sooo...I'm pretty rubbish at keeping my own secrets.

I have quite an exciting illustration job in the pipeline but I don't want to talk about it properly on the interwebs until contracts have been signed and whatnot. (Because it probably will fall through knowing my luck!)

But I couldn't help but share this little detail of one of the drawings. I've fallen a little bit in love with this character. She's called Abbie and she's 15 years old. She's a teeny bit emo and gloomy. But hella cute, no?



Anyway, I'll let you know if it's good news, if it isn't I'll just stay quiet and sulk for a bit. And probably dye my hair like emo-Abbie.

R xxx

I Live Sweat

I did a logo for the awesome guys over at I Live Sweat.
You should check out the blog - it's rad.

Pyder update

Hey guys,

I'm here with a Pyder update.

I've done four ROUGH cover illustrations for Symon, the author, to choose from.

It'd be brillzor to get YOUR feedback too though, so let me know which one you prefer!

You can either comment on this blog post or tweet me.

Number 1:
Number 2:
Number 3:
Number 4:
Love you byeeee xxx

Warkitty!

Here's another character to add to the world Paul Banks and I invented on our recent pub trip.
Warkitty is subservient to Warbunny. And a little less angry.
He sure does love killing those mice though!!

If you missed the first Warbunny drawing then click here... OR HE'LL GET YOU!

The original pub sketch:

Jadu characters

Here are a couple of cute little character designs I did for web content management company Jadu. They will feature in a promotional booklet. The girl is a designer and the boy is a developer.
Can't wait to see the finished product :)

Warbunny!

Hey guys,
I wanted to share this character, Warbunny! He is one angry dude.
The idea for this guy came from a recent trip to the pub with the amazing designer Paul Banks.

I decided I would try to bring him to life...

Here's the sketch I did whilst in the pub:

Hopefully this isn't the last we'll see of Warbunny.

Watch this space!

R xxx

Fish and Hamster card

This is the front of a card what I made for my friend David.

The fish is called Goliath and the Hamster is called Moet (based on real animals).

I might make a few more like this (but not as specific) as I kinda dig the style.

R xxx