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Brain Food for Kids is a project from Stories by Luci that aims to strengthen family reading time wi

13/09/2026

Desperately looking for your help! 🙏

I can’t decide! 😩 Can you help me? Which designs should I turn into cards to sell at the gallery?

Tell me your favourite number(s) below please 🙏

And also, may I ask, where do you print your cards? I don’t have much storage space, so I’d love somewhere that allows me to order small quantities at a time.

Thank you! ❤️

07/09/2026

Charcoal

02/09/2026

Artist study of the day 😊

Today I’ve been looking closely at Henry: The ARTistic Dog by Justin Worsley , a former Cambridge School of Art student.

When I study an illustrator’s work, I like to take it apart and understand why it works.

I looked at Justin Worsley’s visual language: his loose, expressive characters, the simplicity of the shapes, his limited colour palette and the way he uses composition to tell the story.

I then made some quick character studies, experimented with his palette and chose one of the illustrations to analyse more closely.

One thing I found particularly interesting is how simple and unpolished the drawings are allowed to be. The characters don’t need lots of detail to communicate personality or movement. Gesture, silhouette and posture are doing a lot of the storytelling.

This is something I’m trying to bring more into my own illustration practice: less concern with making a “beautiful drawing”, and more attention to what the drawing is actually communicating. In another words, playing.

Studying other illustrators like this is now one of my favourite ways of learning. ❤️

Thank you Justin 🙏 😊

31/08/2026

At Seven Dials

MA Children’s Book Illustration — Cambridge School of Art

25/08/2026

I did something I’m proud of today, although it’s not a masterpiece 🙈

There was actually a lot of thinking behind this piece.

First, I created two groups of shapes using different colour ranges, with the father and daughter as the main focal point. Then I played with line and tonal value, using different mediums to create different textures.

And you know what? I love it.

It feels like a little step forward in my practice, and it makes me want to explore this way of working even more. ❤️

For this piece, I used a really lovely Royal Academy watercolour pad, 300gsm and very affordable! 🙌

To create the different textures, I experimented with different mediums, including Caran d'Ache gouache and PaulRubens oil pastels, and luminance pencils.

23/08/2026

Before you start painting, always ask yourself: What do I want to focus on in this drawing today?

In my case, I wanted to focus on values, where are my whites, my blacks and my greys? And does it work visually?

Oh well, this drawing may not communicate much, but:
- I love the texture.
- I love the limited palette.
- And I learnt something from making it.

Sometimes, that’s enough. ❤️

18/08/2026

Inspired by my lovely friends from MA Children’s Book Illustration — Cambridge School of Art I decided to play around a little with this drawing.

I did several attempts to get the gesture and mood right, and then swapped the human heads for the animals we were challenged to draw in this exercise.

I loved creating it, although I’m not really in love with the final piece, but that’s not the most important thing, innit? As long as we enjoy the process!

The most important to me is learning.

So... as you know your opinion is very valuable to me, and it would be so helpful if you could share your thoughts on this piece. Maybe you can see something I’m missing!
What do you think? How could I have improved it? I’d love to hear your thoughts ❤️

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