Capture Cure

I have created this image for Capture Cure, an art auction in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. This is a cause that is very close indeed to my heart and it means a lot to me to be able to do something to help that involves Illustration, so please spare a moment to become a fan and click 'like' under my image to give it a chance of appearing in the auction. All the proceeds from the auction go to Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

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The King in Yellow

Wow, it's been a while.

Well anyway, I'm all graduated now, and have been thrust with quite some considerable vigour into the wide world of adulthood.

As a nice little bit of easing into the real world I have reworked my King in Yellow illustration for a concept album my uncle is doing. I think I prefer it to the original image and it's made me realise how nice it is to be able to do something that won't end up being judged!

Quote Illustration

This is my page for the Quotes and Sayings book that the University College Falmouth Illustration course publishes every year :D

It is a quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray, "noiselessly, and with silver feet, the shadows crept in from the garden". At this point he has just found out that Sibyl Vane has killed herself because of him, and he is contemplating his actions for so long that darkness creeps in without him realising. I haven't seen the film yet and wasn't sure if I wanted to but I think I may do now if only to see if their treatment of this scene is anything like mine! I know for one thing that they have given him straight dark hair when Oscar Wilde specifically stated the opposite.

Also, Illustrators, don't worry I've only put them text there for show :P

I have quite enjoyed doing this and am thinking it might be quite fun to doing something else Dorian Gray related...

NEW WEBSITE!

www.nicolapatten.com

HOW EXCITING!!

Conclusion: Dreamweaver is the most ridiculously complicated software I have ever encountered. I think it would actually have been simpler to learn html!

Anyway, hope you enjoy it :D

PROJECT X

It's Project X Time! My mission was to complete an illustration for Captain Cuthbert's Travelling Flea Circus that would be used on the side of their van and could be adapted for a letterhead. They're not really a flea circus but I like to imagine they are and I like to imagine they look like this.

The King in Yellow

A book cover for The King in Yellow, an 1890s collection of short gothic fiction stories by Robert W Chambers.

Type 1 Diabetes for Children

My latest project, a 6cm x 10cm booklet for children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. This booklet would be sold on the Diabetes UK website to parents looking for a simple and interesting explanation of the illness for their children.