EMELBI

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St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School

Posted by EMELBI on  11th November 2021
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Procreate, School Workshops
Procreate Portrait Workshops I recently had the pleasure of running a weeks worth of workshops with all the children in St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School in Wigan. Working with Reception children, right through to Year 6, we used an app called ‘Procreate‘ on the Apple iPad. Many of the children had never seen or worked with Procreate before so there was a steep learning curve regarding some of the technical aspects of
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The Beautiful Mundane Project – Birkby Junior School

Posted by EMELBI on  19th May 2021
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Photography Workshops
This was such a fun project with years 4 and 5 at Birkby Junior School. All the children were introduced to the process of making striking digital graphics from really basic digital photography. STAGE ONE – THE PHOTOGRAPHY Using iPads, the children were encouraged to take a series of photographs of every-day, mundane objects that would usually seem humdrum or of a dull subject matter. Things like light switches, radiators, air vents, skirting boards etc.
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Ash Croft Primary Academy – Digital Lift Off Day

Posted by EMELBI on  18th May 2021
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI
In this recent workshop, the year 5 and 6 children at Ash Croft Primary Academy made some strong graphics from hands on illustrative beginnings. Starting with their own portrait photographs as reference material, they made some detailed portrait illustrations of themselves using biro pens on heavy cartridge paper. Exploring a series of techniques, these images were then worked into with thicker pens honing the major detail. Special attention was paid to the areas that make
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Jazz Pizzazz

Posted by EMELBI on  13th April 2021
Category: Characters, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Grpahics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate, YouTube, YouTube Tutorial
This is a recent illustration created in Procreate on the ipad and finished in Photoshop on the iMac. I love working between these two platforms. It’s a real organic process much of the time and a slightly different way of working than I am used to. That said, it is quickly becoming one of my favourite ways of creating striking graphics and laying down ideas for numerous projects. Here are a few different treatments of
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Geoff McGeoff – Bodaciously Boho

Posted by EMELBI on  24th February 2021
Category: Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
Tags: Photoshop
This dude, who I have affectionately called Geoff McGeoff, was created on the iPad Pro using Procreate. I was messing around with just one brush. The ‘Syrup’ brush, under the ‘Inking’ menu of brushes. I love hard line illustrations. It’s probably because I have always drawn with pens and markers. This technique in Procreate, using two different colours for the hatching, reminds me a lot of wood cut work. Positive and negative space is apparent
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Red Ed – Two Minute Time Lapse Illustration

Posted by EMELBI on  9th February 2021
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, Sketch, Sketching, YouTube
This image was made as part of a new series of two minute time lapse illustrations that I am embarking on for my YouTube Channel. I’ve called this one Red Ed. As part of this journey, I want to explore a variety of different mediums again and become a bit more exploratory concerning image making. Way back in 1994, I did my Art Foundation where we were encouraged to look at all aspects of creative
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365 Sketchbook 2021

Posted by EMELBI on  3rd February 2021
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, EMELBI, Illustration, Sketch, Sketchbook, Sketching
I have decided to undertake a 365 sketchbook. An illustration/sketch a day for a whole year. No rules, multiple mediums and any subject. I will draw whatever comes into my head on each particular day. Just for the sheer love of drawing and for the exciting journey of exploration and discovery. To challenge myself, my first sketchbook has got recycled paper that’s quite thin and acts a little bit like blotting paper. This makes for
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The Laughing Boy Project

Posted by EMELBI on  22nd January 2021
Category: Art, Collaboration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Grpahics, Illustration, Portrait, YouTube
I was recently invited to collaborate on ‘The Laughing Boy Project’ by the artist and photographer Hersley Casero. Hersley-Ven Casero is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Dumaguete City, Philippines. He and his partner Toulla contacted me through Instagram just before Christmas and asked if I would like to create  my version of The Laughing Boy. The invite came at a time when I was looking to get involved in more collaborations with other creatives,
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Hands Up For Equality – Silkstone Primary School

Posted by EMELBI on  24th November 2020
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Illustration, School Workshops
Here is an art project recently undertaken by the Year 3 children at Silkstone Primary School in Barnsley. They created some interesting illustrations based on ‘Equality’ using the outline of their own arms. The children made their images using words/text to form some strong detail for the inside of their arms. Adding various textures with pens, and colour from a limited colour palette, they came up with these striking graphics. The limited colour palette was
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Unique and Equal – Silkstone Primary School

Posted by EMELBI on  24th November 2020
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Illustration, Portrait, School Workshops
These self-portraits were made by the year 4 children at Silkstone Primary School in Barnsley. This project was a creative experience that brought about some inspiring results. Based on their own portrait images, the children explored the line and structure of their own faces, through a series of drawing techniques. These techniques were devised to examine parts of the face that form the true character of who they are. By paying careful attention to the
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Chikket Imps

Posted by EMELBI on  20th November 2020
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration
This scrumptious bunch of impish lovelies are part of an ongoing illustrative project. I am interested in the uniformity of the illustrations. I follow a particular set of rules in the creation of each of the characters so that they relate to each other in a very particular way. Also in the way in which they have been placed in the exact same environment. That said, my aim is to make them as different to
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Super Quick Illustration

Posted by EMELBI on  9th July 2020
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Grpahics, Illustration, Sketch, Sketching
My wife asked me to do a quick continuous line illustration for a presentation she’s doing over Zoom. It had to be a self portrait and done quickly, almost without thinking. (Fig 1) She then asked me to take that initial drawing and embellish it with texture shading and form etc. Again, I had to make these graphic additions really quickly. (Fig 2) I then photographed the resulting image on my iPhone 11 Pro, sent
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The Unusual Suspects – Nous Trois

Posted by EMELBI on  9th July 2020
Category: Art, Characters, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Illustration
During this lockdown period I have been getting around to one or two things that I have been meaning to do for ages. There seems to be a lot of stuff that one puts on the back burner until there is time to address whatever it is that needs addressing. Some of it is house maintenance, of which I have done a fair share of late, but also there is always a backlog of things
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Symmetry and Negative Space

Posted by EMELBI on  9th July 2020
Category: Art, Colour, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Grpahics, Illustration
A quick exploration of negative space and assumed negative space within this symmetrical image of a dude on a BMX. I love how art and design can take you on a journey beyond the obvious just by using colour and form. I’ve always been fascinated in the exploration of colour relationships and how colour can completely change to mood of an image, while fundamentally, the structure of the image or graphic stays exactly the same.
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1 Second Photoshop Tutorial

Posted by EMELBI on  8th July 2020
Category: Digital Illustration, Illustration, YouTube, YouTube Tutorial
I’ve been having a bit of fun with editing today and I had an idea to make the shortest Photoshop, time lapse, illustration tutorial ever! This is an image of mine called Street Angel. I took 30 snap shot images in Photoshop at various stages of the image build and imported them into DaVinci Resolve and set the project frame rate at 30 frames per second. I had to find a real short audio stab
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The Day I was Vincent van Gogh

Posted by EMELBI on  29th August 2019
Category: Art, Art Education, Creativity, Education, Painting
Yesterday, I was mostly being Van Gogh. I created this version of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ for my wife’s art classroom doors, ready for the new school year to start. It was a lot of fun to do. In doing so I felt that I got a taste of the energy and vibrancy that Van Gogh painted with. The mimicking of the technique and style was a lot of fun and it was interesting
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Codsall Middle School – Portrait Illustration Workshop 2018

Posted by EMELBI on  7th December 2018
Category: Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Drawing, Education, School Workshops
  Here are some of the images that the pupils at Codsall Middle School in Wolverhampton produced during a recent portrait illustration workshop. The images are derived from their own portrait photographs. They learned to look for dominant parts of their features to pull out their true character. These are a handful of the images that were produced on the day. It was hard to pick the images for this blog as they were all
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A Carton Full of Creativity

Posted by EMELBI on  6th June 2017
Category: Animation, Art, EMELBI, Gif
A gif animation of the EMELBI Boi Carton. I love animated gifs. They’re great things to play with in terms of a quick bit of animated creativity. They make brilliant little adverts too.
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Art is a Human Right

Posted by EMELBI on  15th May 2017
Category: Art, Art Education, Creative Learning, Digital Art Education, Education
It absolutely is. Everybody has the ability to create and make art. Exercise your right to be creative. Exercise your right to make art.
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All Stars Performing Arts Presents ANNIE 2017

Posted by EMELBI on  7th March 2017
Category: Art, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Grpahics, Illustration
I recently designed the ANNIE posters, flyers and social media promotional material for the forthcoming summer show by the All Stars Performing Arts school based in West Yorkshire. The show will take place at the Bradford Play House where tickets can be purchased via the Box Office. Set in 1930s New York during the Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. Annie’s luck changes when
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Gomersal Primary School – Creative Workshop 2016 #2

Posted by EMELBI on  16th December 2016
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, School Workshops
This has been a wonderful project where the children have explored a wide range of mediums including photography, pen line portrait illustration, textured mark making with a variety of tools, paint blending experimentation on canvas, digital illustration and layering techniques and then bringing all these things together for the final pieces. The finished artworks are absolutely fabulous and so wonderfully individual. It was a pleasure to work with such a great bunch of talented young artists.
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Sketchbook Images – December 2016

Posted by EMELBI on  12th December 2016
Category: Art, Drawing, Sketch, Sketching
Some quick sketches from a recent sketchbook. Number six was drawn by my 4 year old daughter. I added the kiss speech bubble. We work collaboratively some times. Children’s unbound creativity is a wonder to behold most of the time.
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Gomersal Primary School – Creative Workshop 2016

Posted by EMELBI on  12th December 2016
Category: Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education
Here are some of the images that have been created by the children at Gomersal Primary School in recent creative workshops. These will be added to the canvases that they have been working on for the last few weeks. Can’t wait to see the finished items. I really love their use of blended digital textures incorporating their hand drawn portraits. Brilliant creativity.
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Beardyman – God Damn I Look Fresh

Posted by EMELBI on  16th November 2016
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, Drawing, Illustration, Music, Sketch, Sketching, Urban
A quick sketch of the Vocal Beatbox and Musical Noise genius Beardyman. He posted a video this morning on his Facebook page running a little competition for fans like myself to get involved with. I freeze framed the video and made this image from the freeze frame. Never heard of Beardyman. Why the chuff not? Check him out here… www.beardyman.co.uk Art and creativity is everywhere. You just need to look for it.
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Amazing Disgrace

Posted by EMELBI on  9th November 2016
Category: Art, Characters, Digital Illustration, EMELBI
It’s not united, but this is the state of America.
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Birkby Junior School – Personal Story Telling Project

Posted by EMELBI on  22nd September 2016
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, School Workshops
This was a super day long project working with a group of talented creative children on a personal story telling project. The artwork produced was towards part of a community art exhibition with many other schools being involved. The children rolled out a large piece of paper across the school hall floor and each of them worked on multiple areas of the paper creating illustrative self portraits of themselves and embellishing the portraits with images that
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Story Time

Posted by EMELBI on  11th July 2016
Category: Art, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration
I did a little illustration of my daughter having a hot chocolate before bedtime. We like a good bedtime story in our house. My wife and I collect children’s books, so there is always a good story to hand.
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Sketch It!

Posted by EMELBI on  22nd June 2016
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, Sketch
Here are a recent collection of images. They are a mixture of hand drawn and digital art play.
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Gomersal Primary School – Experimental Portrait Workshop

Posted by EMELBI on  10th December 2015
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, Photography, Photography Workshops, School Workshops
This was a really fun and creative art club. From large A2 printed portrait photographs the children traced their own images paying particular attention to the shapes that exist within the human face. This made for some really lovely and unusual drawings. The second stage was to make another tracing, but this time from the initial line drawing so that there was some extra degradation of form though this process. Using a limited palette of colours,
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Mr. Scoper

Posted by EMELBI on  18th November 2015
Category: Art, Characters, Creativity, Drawing, Illustration
His name is Scoper. He has just been hit by cupid’s arrow and is about to fall in love. Maybe he will fall over first. It’s hard to know.
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Nimble Line Bimble – 09.11.15

Posted by EMELBI on  9th November 2015
Category: Art, Characters, Drawing, EMELBI
Nimble Line Bimbles Taking the pen for a walk.
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Shelly First School – Digital Urban Mural – Digital Illustration Workshops.

Posted by EMELBI on  5th November 2015
Category: Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, School Workshops
Using Dazzle 03 pupils created funky character designs to use in the production of a Digital Urban Mural. Further graphic experimentation had them exploring various tools within the Dazzle 03 software package where they used multiple layers and learned to transfer images from one document to another.  The pupils then combined many graphic elements to form the finished artwork exploring colour, texture, image placement, small graphic additions and much more. I love how busy these
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Audio Cassette

Posted by EMELBI on  19th October 2015
Category: EMELBI, Grpahics
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