Month: October 2017

Spooky Illustrations! Happy Halloween!

We have some wonderful and spooky illustrations for todays post created by our students – perfect for Halloween! The illustrating Children’s books Diploma course is perfect for creating illustrations such as these. We defy any of our viewers to be…

Competition Entries Online!

This years London Art College Competition 2017 is closed and we have added all of the entries online at the link below. London Art College Competition 2017 Entries  We have had some stunning entries this year and I know that…

Elena Statham – Illustrations!

Hello! Finely I managed to  finish two sets of assignments: Sebastian Sink City and Fiery Fred! I thought to share with everyone. The Second assignment took me a while, as I didn’t read properly the instructions on what side the…

Evelyn Sichrovsky – Pencil Drawing

We love showcasing student Evelyn Sichrovsky’s artwork. Evelyn completed her Painting and Drawing Diploma Course last year. However we keep adding her work here to the blog as inspiration for our current and future students! Keep drawing!

Robyn Dreyer’s Illustration

Tutor Maggy Roberts sent us this superb illustration by one of her students Robyn Dreyer. Robyn said below… I enjoy working with watercolour, it’s always a challenge as you never quite know how the water is going to roll or…

Coloured Pencil by John Irving

Below is a wonderful coloured pencil drawing by London Art College student John Irving. He is studying our Coloured Pencil Course. We have added the reference photo which John sent in with the artwork for his tutor to view when…

Lillian Lan

Lillian Lan is enrolled on two of our courses. The Illustrating Children’s Book Diploma course with Maggy Roberts and the Landscape Painting Diploma Course with Alan Dedman. Maggy emailed us one of Lilian’s illustrations to showcase on our blog, which…

Joy Deane

Joy Deane has just completed our Graphic Design in Art Course with a Distinction. Tutor Vanessa Weaver was very keen for us to show Joy’s work here on our college news blog and we would like to congratulate Joy for…

Yulia Kerme

Drawing portraits have always been my passion as long as I remember, although, unfortunately, there was a period of my life when due to the health condition I had to give up art altogether. It took me some time and…

Jacksons Art Competition

This October, Jackson’s are celebrating Botanical Artists by running a free, international, digital competition: ‘Plant Life: Botanical Illustration’. Jacksons are offering the 3 winners watercolour prizes worth a total of £300 RRP, kindly donated by Winsor & Newton, along with…

Amy Curran

Amy Curan has just passed the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma Course with a Distinction. Maggy was delighted with her final image and wanted us to showcase it her eon our college news blog. Her final illustration is absolutely superb! We…

Yvonne Overheul

My whole life I have spent hours in book shops admiring the illustrations of other people, so when my daughter was about 5 years old and showed a great interest in drawing I started drawing together with her. Only then…

Victoria Biggs

This watercolour illustration was created for the first assignment on the Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma – to illustrate a double page for the rhyme ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’.  I wanted to create a dream-like atmosphere that would appeal to young children…

Amy Curran

Student Amy Curran has created an illustration for one of her assignments on the Illustrating Children’s Books diploma course. Tutor Maggy Roberts emailed the image to us asking for it to be included on the blog and gallery. Maggy said…….

Heidi Hauser

We have a superb illustration to showcase below by student Heidi Hauser who is studying our Illustrating Children’s Books Diploma course with tutor Maggy Roberts. The first image below shows the full illustration including Heidi’s registration lines and the gumstrip…

Diane Bishop

It’s Children’s Illustration week! If you are looking to improve your illustration work, perhaps you want to pursue a career as an illustrator, or maybe you are writing your own children’s book and would like to illustrate it yourself. If…