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Freak Weather Event in Scotland
Hello! I’ve been away for ages. I know. Slap my wrist. It’s beautiful up here in the highlands at the moment. The last two days have hit 30c! Which is a freak weather event for Scotland. It’s along the lines … Continue reading
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Father’s Day
Hallo! Father’s Day is fast approaching and what could be better than some magnets or badges to celebrate manliness?! See my etsy shop here – Click me! The end of year show for Aberdeen College’s second year Vis Comm HND … Continue reading
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Tartans
Hallo lovely people! It’s been a bit quiet around here lately. I’d love to have a good reason for it but the truth is my arm’s been playing up and college work is about all I can manage. I have … Continue reading
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The Shiniest Pearl
Hallo! The latest addition to my children’s illustration portfolio (I’ve been trying to beef it up); She’s spotted the biggest, most shiniest pearl this side of the pacific and thinks it’s probably a good idea to collect it. Cat … Continue reading
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Tagged aberdeen, aberdeenshire, art, cat, children, children's, design, fish, girl, illustration, island, natalie, pearl, smillie, tropical
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Mid Century Masculine
Hello! I’ve been thinking about surface patterns and how not a lot of my art is very appealing to the proper gentleman. So I decided to have a go at designing something that would fit the bill. I discovered that … Continue reading
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Tagged aberdeen, aberdeenshire, art, design, illustration, manly, masculine, men, mid century, natalie, retro, scotland, smillie, vector, vintage
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Board Game In 7 Hours
Today my sister in law asked me to make her a board game. She’s studying for a PhD and her and some colleagues are doing this thing which sounds very literary and intellectual where they go and seclude themselves from … Continue reading
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NAEWYE Zine
There’s an exciting thing happening in Aberdeen. Europe’s oil capital is vying for the UK’s City of Culture accolade and in order to help it on its way, an underground army of art, craft, illustration and design personnel is gaining … Continue reading
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Tagged aberdeen, aberdeenshire, akiro, art, design, GFSmith, highlands, illustration, illustrator, magazine, naewye, offset57, scotland, vintage, wldwlvs, zine
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Octopus process
*Updated with a better scan. Hello peeps! Thought I’d do a wee process post this time. Although this isn’t the way I usually work (or it hasn’t been before although I really enjoyed it, so I might do more!), I … Continue reading
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Disney Natalie
Hello peoples! This instalment you are treated to me, as a Disney character! A project for college required us to pick a style from a box and then illustrate ourselves as a vector character. It was really good fun. The guys on … Continue reading
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Personal Branding
Hallo! Got some new bits up on the etsy shop – here. I’ve been working on some personal branding to use for my business and I’ve come up with something I quite like. It’s a retro/vintage feel, which seems to … Continue reading
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Natalie Smillie 