Book Illustrations

1 member care manual


20 chapters


125 cartoons


Countless pencils and pens and...


1 me.


Here are some of my favourites. This has been a few months-long process, one that I'm so blessed to have been a part of. Shout out to the lovely author of the book :)



































ps. all the drawings are copyrighted to me fyi. No steals :)

Follow-up on my BOW

I can't believe I've neglected this blog since June! True, there has been a few exams and graduations, not to mention a move from the Philippines to NSW, Australia, that have got in the way of anything Internet for me.

So, it was in early July 2009 that I finished my Body of Work and sent it off to my teacher in Oz. I had to get my photos printed and backed by a friend, who did a lovely job. I'll have to upload some of the photos I used onto here. I still don't know exactly what mark my BOW was given, but I got a Band 5 in Art - I was hoping for a Band 6, but a high 5 is close enough!

I need to go wash the dishes, but I'll be back before too long to give a proper conclusion to my BOW and show you what I'm doing now.

(It's to do with book illustration :)

June art

Yet another change in style from Bec!

Well... not really.

These drawings have the same basic feel, which, hopefully, I can tie together with all the other works in the end.

This was sketched in pencil, coloured with watercolours, drawn, shaded and outlined with black gel ballpoint pen and added to with chalk pastel.


Close-up.The second drawing... this was in the same materials and technique, although I left out the chalk pastel this time. My mum really likes this drawing, probably because of the sense of movement in it. I'd also hazard a guess that it reminds her of my sister. That always helps!

Personally I love the way the skirt looks! I also like the basketball (that's what that round thing is).

... And (if you can see it) the raw beginnings of another drawing. I plan to have my spiky-haired guy riding a water buffalo as part of it, with the blonde running (somewhere!) in the foreground.

Finished drawings

The first drawing took me 2-3 days (that is, about 4 hours or less) to finish and was just just after I switched to charcoal as a medium.

Why did I do that?

I was frustrated with pencil because it wasn't giving the firm lines I needed. I swear that the humidity here does something to paper, because at times its fine to use pencil on it, and at other times its basically a waste of time.

I like the sense of movement in this drawing, the energy it conveys, and the slight air of mystery that permeates it. However, the mood seems too dark and oppressive, somehow. The other problem is that I wasn't able to get much detail into the characters.

untitled#1 - watercolour, charcoal, chalk pastel, ink


This is the second drawing I made, which took about the same time and used predominately black ink with some charcoal and chalk pastel, with a watercolour background.

This girl has my sisters hair, which is, I think, why she keeps reappearing.

The pseudo-punk makes his entrance again!

Distracted? Let them doodle!

Hi again!

I did these blue ballpoint pen drawings in the margins and backs of my art theory print-outs a few weeks ago. I decided to try and space out my posts a bit, but I think the space got too large! They are sort of procrastination, but then, I could always say that it was practice for art and my Body of Work. Which is true - come on, every drawing no matter what it is, is practice - so its no lie.

This is essentially how i learnt to draw. When I was about 6 or 7 I supposedly spent a lot of time tracing pictures in magazines, then when I was older i graduated to drawing in countless notebooks, then to drawing in the margins of my (non-book) school work.

So... this is what I do for fun!

Random faces and parts of faces...
... And the photo that inspired them. This is part of a work by Patricia Piccinini - the face wasn't the focal point of the artwork, but it fascinated me all the same. In a way, she seems to be plastic, or perhaps some sort of unreal mist. I used the play of light on her face as a reference for most of the drawings here. This is the mouth and nose of Jackson Pollock...... And the photo I drew it from. Pollock is one of the more well-known Post-Modern artists, you may know of his famous and energetic drip-painting technique.

And the culmination of my distraction! I was happy to find that I could draw a whole face reasonably with this type of drawing. I like the way it creates depth and a sense of form.