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EMELBI

Digital Artist and Illustrator

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  • Jan 26 2023

    The Hill Primary Academy – Portrait Illustration Workshop with EMELBI

    Here are some fabulous images made by the year 6 children at The Hill Primary Academy in Rotherham. Using photographs of themselves, the children made some super line illustrations using pencils and pens. Looking at certain aspects of the portrait process, year 6 focused on
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    Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Drawing, Education, Portrait, School Workshops
  • Jan 25 2023

    Snowdogs Support Life – Kirklees – Snowdog Auction 2022

    A couple of months ago, my wonderful Snowdog, ‘Two Tone Textile Tilly’ was sold at auction and fetched an impressive £2,300 This money will contribute to that fabulous work that The Kirkwood do in the local community. ‘Tilly’ was purchased by an anonymous online bidder
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    Art, EMELBI, Painting, Public Art, Public Art Event, Urban, Wild in Art
    Public Art Event
  • Jan 24 2023

    East Ardsley Primary School – Space Illustration Workshop with EMELBI

    One of the most important skills in art, is drawing. You can create wildernesses, vast landscape, detailed cities, fabulous creatures and just about anything your imagination can muster. Allowing yourself to be free to ‘JUST DRAW’, no matter where it takes you, is a freeing
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Collaboration, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Illustration, School Workshops
  • Jan 24 2023

    Birkby Junior School – Y4 Digital Graphics and Photography Workshop with EMELBI

    Making digital graphics from simple digital photographs with Year 4 at Birkby Junior School. This workshop was all about making striking digital graphics from a really basic set of digital photographs. Using iPads, the children were encouraged to take a series of photographs of every-day,
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Photography Workshops, School Workshops
  • Jan 24 2023

    Birkby Junior School – Y6 Digital Portrait Illustration with EMELBI

    These fab images are a sample of the digital portraits recently created by the Year 6 children at Birkby Junior School. They worked with iPads and the program Procreate. Using their own portrait photos as reference, the children were taken through a series of processes
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Procreate, School Workshops
  • Jan 20 2023

    Friday Night

    A recent simple line illustration of my wife. Dozing on a ‘Friday Night’ after a long week. My wife and I were just chilling out watching a bit of Friday night TV. I looked around and she was absolutely sparked out. So I took a
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    Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Sep 08 2022

    MYRIAD FRONTIERS – Future Gaming Concept

    MYRIAD FRONTIERS Concept art and idea based on future gaming. © EMELBI 2022 – All Rights Reserved Portrait illustrations based on the concept that we will soon live in a world where gamers will be able to connect to internet streamed game systems using cybernetics
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    Art, Characters, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
  • Aug 28 2022

    Pleckgate High School – Digital Portrait Illustration Project

    The illustrations that the year 11 students created at Pleckgate High School in Blackburn, are outstanding. I worked with them for a day looking at portrait illustration techniques using the iPad and the Procreate App. I often work with young people delivering creative workshops in
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    Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, iPad Pro, Procreate, School Workshops
  • Jul 28 2022

    Making Layered Portraits – Horsington Church School

    I got a lovely surprise in my inbox recently. A group of year 5 and year 6 pupils from Horsington Church School in Somerset, had been following my Drawable ‘Making Layered Portraits’ resource on the AccessArt website. They sent me a handful of the images
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    Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creativity
  • Nov 11 2021

    St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School

    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‘
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Procreate, School Workshops
  • May 19 2021

    The Beautiful Mundane Project – Birkby Junior School

    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
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI, Photography Workshops
  • May 18 2021

    Ash Croft Primary Academy – Digital Lift Off Day

    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
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, EMELBI
  • Apr 13 2021

    Jazz Pizzazz

    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
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    Characters, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Procreate, YouTube, YouTube Tutorial
  • Feb 24 2021

    Geoff McGeoff – Bodaciously Boho

    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
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    Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, iPad Pro, Photoshop, Portrait, Procreate
    Photoshop
  • Feb 09 2021

    Red Ed – Two Minute Time Lapse Illustration

    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
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    Art, Characters, Creativity, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration, Sketch, Sketching, YouTube
  • Feb 03 2021

    365 Sketchbook 2021

    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
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    Art, Characters, Creativity, EMELBI, Illustration, Sketch, Sketchbook, Sketching
  • Jan 22 2021

    The Laughing Boy Project

    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
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    Art, Collaboration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, Portrait, YouTube
  • Nov 24 2020

    Hands Up For Equality – Silkstone Primary School

    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
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Illustration, School Workshops
  • Nov 24 2020

    Unique and Equal – Silkstone Primary School

    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
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Creativity, Drawing, Education, EMELBI, Illustration, Portrait, School Workshops
  • Nov 20 2020

    Chikket Imps

    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
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    Art, Characters, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Illustration
  • Jul 09 2020

    Super Quick Illustration

    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
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    Art, Characters, Creativity, Digital Illustration, Drawing, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration, Sketch, Sketching
  • Jul 09 2020

    The Unusual Suspects – Nous Trois

    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
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    Art, Characters, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Illustration
  • Jul 09 2020

    Symmetry and Negative Space

    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
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    Art, Colour, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Graphics, Illustration
  • Jul 08 2020

    1 Second Photoshop 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
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    Digital Illustration, Illustration, YouTube, YouTube Tutorial
  • Aug 29 2019

    The Day I was Vincent van Gogh

    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
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    Art, Art Education, Creativity, Education, Painting
  • Dec 07 2018

    Codsall Middle School – Portrait Illustration Workshop 2018

      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
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    Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Drawing, Education, School Workshops
  • Jun 06 2017

    A Carton Full of Creativity

    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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    Animation, Art, EMELBI, Gif
  • May 15 2017

    Art is a Human Right

    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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    Art, Art Education, Creative Learning, Digital Art Education, Education
  • Mar 07 2017

    All Stars Performing Arts Presents ANNIE 2017

    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.
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    Art, Digital Illustration, EMELBI, Graphics, Illustration
  • Dec 16 2016

    Gomersal Primary School – Creative Workshop 2016 #2

    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
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    Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education, School Workshops
  • Dec 12 2016

    Sketchbook Images – December 2016

    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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    Art, Drawing, Sketch, Sketching
  • Dec 12 2016

    Gomersal Primary School – Creative Workshop 2016

    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
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    Art, Art Education, Art Workshops, Creative Learning, Creative Workshops, Digital Art Education, Digital Illustration Workshops, Education
  • Nov 16 2016

    Beardyman – God Damn I Look Fresh

    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.
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    Art, Characters, Creativity, Drawing, Illustration, Music, Sketch, Sketching, Urban
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