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EMELBI

Digital Artist and Illustrator

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  • May 16 2025

    Copmanthorpe Primary School – ‘Out Of This World’ Illustration Workshop 2025

    Another great workshop at Copmanthorpe Primary School creating some more brilliant illustrations with the year 6’s. Using ink pens, water and tissue paper the pupils set to creating illustrations based around the theme ‘Out Of This World’.There was a lot of fabulous texture work and
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Characters, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, School Workshops
  • Mar 12 2025

    Character Illustration Workshops at Castleford Academy

    I returned to Castleford Academy last week to deliver some more creative workshops. I had a great time working there again. Staff are lovely and the students did some fab work. Here’s a glimpse into some of the artwork created. I worked with Year 10
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Characters, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Drawing, Education, EMELBI
  • Jul 09 2024

    The Importance of Joining In

    I created this quick portrait illustration working with Year 6 students at Birkby Junior School in Huddersfield. They had already been taken through the process of how to make their own versions in a workshop I delivered earlier in the week. There were 12 students
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    Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Collaboration, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Portrait, Procreate, School Workshops
  • Jul 10 2023

    2 Early 2 B Late

    This is a revamp of an old image. I never really did finish it back in the day, although I may have posted the image in various places. So I took what I had into Procreate, which was the file with just the simple line
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    Creativity, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Portrait, Procreate
  • Jun 30 2023

    Woodlesford Primary School – Year 1 Portrait Illustration Workshop with EMELBI

    I have just had the pleasure of working with the fabulous children in year 1 at Woodlesford Primary School in Leeds. These children took part in one of my ‘Portrait Illustration Workshops’ and stunned me with their energy and creative talents. Look at this wonderful
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, School Workshops
  • Jun 17 2023

    Pleckgate High School – Digital Portrait Illustration Workshop with EMELBI 2023

    Brilliant work from the Year 10 students at Pleckgate High School. Both the year 10 classes I worked with produced some lovely imagery. Working mainly in Procreate to build the initial illustrations, they further developed their work using various other apps, adding filters, colour treatments
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Procreate, School Workshops
  • Jun 17 2023

    Copmanthorpe Primary School – Character Illustration Workshop 2023

    I had a fantastic time at Copmanthorpe Primary School creating these fabulous illustrations with the year 6’s. I love the diversity across the images that they produced. The pupils were shown a particular process of drawing starting with a simple shape and then they looked
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Characters, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, School Workshops
  • May 22 2023

    Birkby Junior School – Y6 Digital Portrait Workshop with EMELBI – 2023

    I have worked with this school for a number of years now and the children always come up with the goods. There are some super, creative and talented pupils among the children at Birkby Junior School. The digital portrait workshop that year 6 took part
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Portrait, School Workshops
  • May 19 2023

    Birkby Junior School – Beautiful Mundane Project – Y4 Digital Graphics and Photography Workshop with EMELBI – 2023

    The Beautiful Mundane Project – Making Graphics from Simple Digital PhotographyWorking with the year 4 pupils at Birkby Junior School we looked at taking photographs of really mundane subject matter in order to make some striking graphics.Using the Snapseed app on the iPad, the pupils
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, iPad Pro, Photography Workshops, School Workshops
  • May 15 2023

    Bridgewater Primary School – Digital Portrait Workshops 2023

    Creating Self Portraits in Procreate with Bridgewater Primary SchoolThis lovely school booked me in to deliver my Digital Portrait Workshops and I got to work with years 2, 3, 4 ,5 and 6. I will never tire of these portrait workshops. Young people always come
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, iPad Pro, Procreate, School Workshops
  • Apr 16 2023

    Feathers McBeaky – Digital Character Illustration

    Feathers McBeaky – Ill Equipped For The CityI really like this character. Feathers McBeaky is a brightly feathered bird (genus unknown) who has spent far too long in the big, dirty city. Looking slightly dishevelled, a little oily and wearing a tatty scarf, he’s going
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate
  • Apr 16 2023

    Easter Bunny – Digital Character Illustration

    Easter Bunny – Post Easter Weekend Bunny Business I wanted to do an illustration of the Easter Bunny. I imagined that he might have been dressed in a smart suit getting on with the job of hiding all the eggs. A smart Easter Bunny out
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate, YouTube
  • Apr 14 2023

    Hoodie Bun Bun – Line Prompt Sketching

    What is Line Prompt Sketching? There are a few different types of sketching that I do when I’m creating imagery. Full on sketch book sketches with detail, shading and colour using various mediums. Pen and/or pencil sketches with hatching, cross hatching and shading detail. There
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Procreate, Sketch
  • Mar 27 2023

    The Spirited Drifter – Accidental Pop Art

    I’ve said it before and I will say it again, I love to explore the multiple possibilities of a single image. This image, entitled ‘The Spirited Drifter’ is a great example of what I mean by this. Over all I am presenting 107 images here.
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Procreate
  • Mar 23 2023

    St. Stives – Journey Line

    Journey Line – The lesson Learned A Compulsion to Create This character is called St. Stives. Named because I drew the sketch in St Ives, Cornwall. I like using certain attachments, loose or otherwise, regarding the naming of my work. Not always, but more often
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Procreate, Sketch, Sketchbook, Sketching
  • Mar 21 2023

    Penzy – Sketchbook Illustration – Coffee, Quiche, Cake and Conversation

    Coffee, Quiche, Cake and Conversation I love to fill sketchbooks. I always have a couple on the go, but my go to paper of choice is a sheet of A4 printer paper. I’m not sure why I favour this. I think it’s because it’s a
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Procreate, Sketch, Sketchbook, Sketching
  • Mar 11 2023

    Making Layered Portraits – King’s School and Nursery, Devon

    I have had some wonderful feedback from a school in Plymouth, who have been creating their own fantastic illustrative portraits following my Drawable ‘Making Layered Portraits’ resource on the AccessArt website. The images below are some examples of the terrific work that the Year 6
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Education, EMELBI, School Workshops
  • Mar 10 2023

    Yücel Eucule – The Upshot Perspective

    The Upshot Perspective Yücel Eucule This image is one of a series of illustrations that I am creating called ‘The Upshot Perspective’ based on humanoid or cyborg units, or renegade humans living in future city settings in a far off world. All of the images
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Portrait, Procreate
  • Feb 27 2023

    Head Study Illustration

    One of the things I love about creativity and art, are the journeys you go on. Simple sketches can turn into intriguing and fun circumnavigations of colour, texture, tone, shade and line. This simple pencil sketch turned into an interesting head study regarding those elements.
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    Art, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Portrait, Procreate, Sketch, Sketching
  • Feb 27 2023

    Snowdogs Support Life – Kirkless – Impact Report

    Key findings and statistics from the Snowdog Support Life, Kirklees Art Trail showing how fantastic the event was for the local community. The Snowdogs encouraged almost 40,000 visitors to explore Kirklees. This impacted directly on our local towns and villages with extra spending estimated at
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    Art, Collaboration, Public Art, Public Art Event, Wild in Art
  • Feb 22 2023

    Cinderella – Production Design

    All Stars Performing Arts Presents – Cinderella Production Design I love working with this performing arts group. The productions are always fantastic and the young people involved with the group put their hearts and souls into every performance. The adults that get involved are fabulous
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    Art, Book Cover Design, Characters, Creativity, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Performing Arts, Procreate, Publication, Stage Set Design, Theatre
  • Feb 22 2023

    City Slither Boi Seth

    Character IllustrationHe might be a snake, but he is the best snake in town. Seth is his name and he’s all sorts of urban cool. Bang into his Hip Hop. B’ Boy exsssssssssssssstraordinaire. Slithers here, slithers there and does a mean moon walk. He truly
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Procreate
  • Feb 18 2023

    Top Bun City Prince – The Upshot Perspective

    The Upshot Perspective Top Bun City Prince This image is one of a series of illustrations that I am creating called ‘The Upshot Perspective’ based on humanoid or cyborg units, or renegade humans living in future city settings in a far off world. All of
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    Art, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, Procreate
  • Feb 17 2023

    Humanoid Cyborg System CCC_333 – The Upshot Perspective

    The Upshot Perspective Humanoid Cyborg System CCC_333 This image is one of a series of illustrations that I am creating called ‘The Upshot Perspective’ based on humanoid or cyborg units, or renegade humans living in future city settings in a far off world. All of
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Feb 16 2023

    City Cyborg Renegade – The Upshot Perspective

    The Upshot Perspective City Cyborg Renegade This image is one of a series of illustrations that I am creating called ‘The Upshot Perspective’ based on humanoid or cyborg units, or renegade humans living in future city settings in a far off world. All of the
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Feb 15 2023

    Post Apocalyptic Utopia – The Upshot Perspective

    The Upshot Perspective Post Apocalyptic Utopia This image is one of a series of illustrations that I am creating called ‘The Upshot Perspective’ based on humanoid or cyborg units, or renegade humans living in future city settings in a far off world. All of the
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    Art, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Feb 13 2023

    With Any Luck – The Upshot Perspective

    The Upshot Perspective With Any Luck This image is one of a series of illustrations that I am creating called ‘The Upshot Perspective’ based on humanoid or cyborg units, or renegade humans living in future city settings in a far off world. All of the
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Feb 07 2023

    Clifton B Boy

    When I was a kid I used to frequent a place that was locally known as ‘Browns Subway’ near Clifton in Nottingham. So called, as the underpass was located quite close to a bakery called ‘Browns Bakery’ on Abbeyfield Road. These subways were a hub
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graffiti, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Procreate
  • Feb 07 2023

    Enzo Valentino – Character Illustration

    A recent illustration of a character that I sketched on a spare piece of envelope while on a conference call. I photographed the sketch and took it into Procreate on the iPad and embellished it with colour and texture. Using a limited colour palette of
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate, Sketch, YouTube
  • Feb 07 2023

    333 – Three lots of the Magic Number

    For a number of years now I have been including the number 333 in the images that I create. Sometimes subtly, other times quite blatantly. Some images will include the number as digits, other times it will be a series of dots or marks. Three
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    Art, Creativity, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate
  • Feb 03 2023

    Gabriel Barak IV – Character Illustration

    Character and Portrait Technique Currently looking at a new technique of making portrait images. I have dabbled with this process before and want to refine it. So you will be seeing much more of this style in the future. Using the procreate app and a
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    Art, Characters, Colour, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Painting, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Feb 01 2023

    Peyton Orme

    Digital Character Illustration As ever, I love to produce multiple version of some of the images that I create, and sometimes characters just spring up form nowhere. This character fell out of my head and onto the iPad screen in Procreate while I was semi
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    Art, Characters, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate
  • Jan 26 2023

    Mind Jazz – Jason Ginnelly

    I was recently contacted by a lovely chap called Jason Ginnelly, who asked me to design the book cover for his up and coming publication of poems and prose. I really enjoyed designing this book cover and made sure that Jason was completely involved with
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    Art, Book Cover Design, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, Literature, Photoshop, Procreate, Publication
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