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Illustration Show at The University of Lincoln

We Write, you draw!

The Tigerprint editorial team is on the lookout for people who love to doodle! If you think you can bring our words to life with your line drawings you’re in with the chance to win a two-week placement at our West Yorkshire studio and potentially see your sketches translated in to real life M&S greeting cards.

Interested?

Find out all the details at this link.

Lizzie Mackay

© Lizzie Mackay

© Lizzie Mackay
  © Lizzie Mackay

  © Lizzie Mackay
  © Lizzie Mackay


© Lizzie Mackay

  © Lizzie Mackay

The incredibly talented Lizzie Mackay was the winner of our Coming Together At Christmas Competition back in December 2012 with the adorable entry at the top of this post.

Lizzie is a illustrator/designer specializing in Children's Print and Graphics and her portfolio is jam packed with wonderful and colourful designs.

Having graduated with a BA in Illustration from the University of Brighton and now with over 15 years experience in printed textiles, Lizzy has designed for many well known stores including Baby Gap, Monsoon, Pumpkin Patch, Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda, Babies 'R' Us, John Lewis, Mothercare and Vertbaudet to name a few.  

Currently Lizzie is currently freelancing fora variety of clients but is also keen to take on new commissions elsewhere.

 “ I have a passion for colour and love, love, love doing what I do, combining hand drawn, colour and pattern in Illustrator and Photoshop.

I'm lucky to work from a little home in the Somerset countryside, along with my lovely hubbie and two children, a couple of bunnies and a handful of fish”.

 

Be sure to find out all about Lizzie at the following links:

http://www.lizziemackay.com

http://lizziem-lizziem-lizziem.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/pompadoo

Designer Spotlight - Julia Patton

  © Julia Patton

© Julia Patton

© Julia Patton

© Julia Patton

© Julia Patton

 

The very talented Julia Patton is an illustrator represented by the Bright Agency and some of you may recognise the top image as a runner up in our recent competition Coming Together At Christmas.

Julia has a wonderful illustrative style which perfectly captures her family of characters as well as the everyday.

Pink Paper Circus

Image © Pink Paper Circus


Image © Pink Paper Circus

Image © Pink Paper Circus

Image © Pink Paper Circus

We'd like to introduce Fiona, aka Pink Paper Circus Illustration. Fiona is a London based freelance illustrator who was a runner up in the recent Male Fashion Icons & Symbols competition.

Above is a selection of her work from various categories in her portfolio, ranging from People & Portraits to Bits & Bobs.

Visit her website to see more of her style.

Paper and Scissors

© Sarah Evans

© Sarah Evans

© Sarah Evans

© Sarah Evans

  © Sarah Evans

  © Sarah Evans

Paper and Scissors is the creative endeavour of designer Sarah Evans specialising in surface print for greetings and gifts.

Sarah loves creating beautiful designs from handmade keepsakes to beautiful digital files.

Above is just a small selection of Sarah's stunning work but do head over here to check out lots more eye candy!

Kiley Victoria Illustration

  © Kiley Victoria

  © Kiley Victoria

  © Kiley Victoria
Kiley Victoria is a UK illustrator who was recently awarded runner up in our Xmas Surface Pattern Competition with the design at the top of the post.

Kiley Victoria has very commercial style which is complimented by the lovely use of colour palettes which evoke a sense of nostalgia in the designs.

Head over here to find out more about Kiley Victoria.

Hollie McManus

  © Hollie McManus

  © Hollie McManus

  © Hollie McManus

Hollie McManus is an illustrator and designer working and living in the UK. After graduating last year from the Arts University College of Bournemouth with a BA(hons) Illustration degree wrote and illustrated a delightful children's book called The Little Bird which she hopes to get published one day!

I'm sure you'll all agree for the snippets of the book above that Hollie has a gorgeous illustrative style really suited to children's book and we wish her much success!

 

Holly Blackman

 

                                         © Holly Blackman

Holly Blackman recently graduated from the University College of Falmouth with a BA (Hons) in Illustration.

Holly creates the most wonderful characters who appear to come alive and jump out from the page at you. Her illustrative style is wonderfully fresh and I'm sure we will be seeing alot more of her work in the future.

Frances Moffatt Illustrator

                                                     © Frances Moffatt

                                    © Frances Moffatt

I absolutely love receiving post so I was thrilled to receive a promo pack from freelance illustrator Frances Moffatt last week.

How gorgeous does it look?

Frances, is a freelance illustrator based in the North East of England and specialises in fashion, beauty and lifestyle imagery.

Frances recently completed her Ma in Design (Illustration) and her 'Sunglasses Girl' illustration has been selected for publication in the "New Talent" category of the upcoming Association of Illustrators Annual.

Make sure you head over to www.francesmoffatt.com where you can check out more lovely illustrations and further info.

 

P.S Thank you to Frances for such a lovely piece of mail!