Merry Christmas Reindeer Cats!

Did the reindeer visit you overnight? Or were they a little smaller, furrier and well…more feline?
Happy Christmas!

Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you’ve all got your shopping done - otherwise, here are some cats ready to lend a hand!

Christmas Cards!

I recently joined the website 'Red Bubble' to sell some christmas cards! You can see my shop here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/aliciamb

Here's a sample of the cards up for sale:

 

Tulips

 I visited the Tulip festival not long ago. Here are some photographs of all the beautiful colours.

Bonus: Coco's not allowed any poffertjes. Sorry, puppy!

Sweet dreams

A page spread from my first ever picture book :) Goodnight!

Cats in Spaaacce~!

Danger Danger Puss Robinson!

The internet

Online chatting :P

Alice's cycling holiday.

Plenty of Alice references hidden here :)

Bauhaus concepts continued

Redesigned office - Bauhaus concept art.

Magrat

 

Character design! Magrat, from Terry Pratchett's - Wyrd Sisters.

"a slightly watery-eyed expression of hopeless goodwill wedged between a body like a maypole and hair like a haystack after a gale."

The Noise II

Another spread from my concept picture book called "The Noise".

Guard Cat

The Guard Cat - necessary for all office environments.
(This is actually a bit of concept art for a story I was working on).

Egyptian Jazz Character Design

Little bit of character design here: an unusual Egyptian jazz group.

Africa

I hope I can go there someday. Until then, I'm as wistful as the song by Toto.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! Hope you all get many more treats than tricks!

Powered by the ocean.

Element energy.

Pumpkin Penny

Halloween time!

Lemonade stand!

A2A Lemonade stand.

Character Design - Post it

Some little character sketches!

3D Paris

 

This is actually a 3D image - there are 3 different mounted layers of cut outs, glued on top of each other. The girl is one layer, over the window layer, over the background image.

Ah, Paris.

The Noise

Spread from a picture book about...well, noise!

Bauhaus Concept Art

Another bit of Bauhaus concept art - sunset lighting in the office.

Dick Bruna meets Ashes to Ashes

I am a huge fan of BBC's Ashes to Ashes. I am also a big fan of Dick Bruna. I think the above illustration was inevitable.

Bauhaus Set Design

A before and after design for Walter Gropius' office in Weimar. The above design is representative of the original isometric drawing. You can actually see a reconstruction at Weimar University today in the original building.

Sketches galore

Quite a few characters hiding here: some in plainer sight than others.

Concept art

Here we have some more Bauhaus concept art - Gropius' office during sad times :(

Very emotionally responsive weather.

Moon rise

Moon rise in winter.

The Great Louvre Swap

Here we have a few illustrations from a concept picture book of mine, The Great Louvre Swap - starring a very grumpy Venus de Milo.

Dornburg castle map

Dornburg Castle Map - A technical illustration

Doggies!

Just some adorable doggies. The top one is my very own faithful hound, Coco.

The Odyssey

So I set myself a task of rereading the Odyssey (the original verse, translated by E.V. Rieu), and I just finished it. YAY! But, I completely forgot just how gory it is. And how heavy going...and how every plot point has to be accompanied by the characters stuffing their faces. If they did a 'You are what you eat' with Odysseus, they would have to make it an hour long special.

Sunflowers

The grow towards the light.

Bauhaus Concept II

How many different Bauhaus pieces can you spot? Concept art for the 1923 Weimar exhibition.

Telepathic Triplets

A sketch of some telepathic triplets. They not only know what eachother are thinking: they know what you're thinking too...

*cue x-files music*

Bauhaus Concept Art

Concept art of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition. The coffee pot is designed by Otto Lindig, and the salt bowl by Theodore Bogler.

Space Dad

 

Dads in Space. They'll always catch you on the way down.

The Woman in White

The Woman in White - A scene from Wilke Collins' classic novel.