Thursday, September 17, 2009

Labels: art, blog, craft, design, illustration, pattern, personal
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
The word is getting around about Patterns for Colouring and its getting featured on other sites like Creative Boom (pictured), Parent Dish (which is where I found the link to Marshall Alexander, below) and even Holy Moly - quite a broad audience footprint there! I've also seen it mentioned on a few parenting forums and moneysavingexpert.com. Design sites that have featured it include ColourLovers and Ideafixa. If you have any ideas of what sites I should target please let me know.Labels: art, blog, craft, design, illustration, pattern, personal
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Monday, June 01, 2009
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Its update time in the land of patterns. My free CC pattern site now has over 100 high resolution images. I'm getting some great feedback from sites like Geekdad, Colourlovers, and Ideafixa who have all linked to the pattern blog recently. It would be great to spread the word even further so that children and adults can all get experimenting and learning about colour.Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, pattern, personal
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Introducing Rob Highton, an illustrator that I've mentioned in previous posts. He has finally put an illustration portfolio together. Now I can show you what he can do. He is a great image maker who is comfortable with Photoshop as much as he is with traditional media.Labels: art, illustration
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Design Week has a fascinating article about how creatives use their sketchbooks. I tend to use scraps of paper whenever the urge to doodle or think hits me. I do have sketchbooks but they tend to be where I store these odds and ends. The books do get quite padded by this extra paper. I have a more formal leather pocket sketchbook, but its just a little bit too posh and small to do any really messy rumination.Labels: art, books, design, illustration
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
I've just uploaded the fortieth free pattern to my other blog. All of the patterns on that site are for downloading, printing out and colouring in. I'm aiming to have 100 patterns uploaded soon, I just have to get around to creating them! The patterns are mostly based on simple geometric shapes but I may branch out into more figurative areas at some point. Remember all of the patterns are protected by a Creative Customs license. Patterns for colouring...Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, pattern, personal
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
Quentin Blake talks about his life as an illustrator to the BBC. He's currently backing an initiative to encourage young children to keep drawing and not be put off once they become aware of the world of art.Labels: art, books, illustration
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Here's a little five seconds of arty fun, Own Art. Its an Arts Council run site to promote the possibility of Joe Bloggs being able to own his/her own real art collection. This is done as a competition where you are invited to select your own collection of art and hang it in a customised (by you) room. Here's my effort - no doubt I'll win. ;-)Labels: art
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Sunday, August 31, 2008

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Friday, August 29, 2008
Labels: art, geek, illustration, technology, YouTube
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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Friday, July 18, 2008
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
This award looks pretty interesting - Beck's Canvas. They are giving four artists the chance to put their artwork on Beck's bottle labels in August. They've helped the careers of Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin (more's the pity) and Jake & Dinos Chapman in the past. Having your work appear on 27 million bottles of beer can't be too shabby!
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Monday, June 23, 2008
The last few months have been very busy for me. Firstly I had to do a redesign of my magazine, WPT Poker. My colleagues and I have produced a more focussed product aimed at the established poker playing community. We've added far more input from professional players, giving the reader far more chance to immerse themselves in the practice and atmosphere of cardroom mentality.
The other project that has kept me up late is a new pattern site. Its for all those (kids through to pensioners!) who love to colour in abstract patterns. I used to love spending hours as a young'un filling in bookloads of these kind of designs. I did a websearch but found nothing beyond a few ancient sites with awful images on them. So I decided to create my own patterns for an eager audience to download, print and start colouring in. Its a great activity for when the weather is chucking stair-rods at the world.Labels: art, blog, design, illustration, magazine, poker
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Get those pencils and crayons and paints and mice ready for 7 June '08. That's the day when everybody should strive to create whatever comes into their minds. The Drawing Day site lets you know how to get involved - you don't need to have your own site, you can use sites like Facebook, Myspace, Flickr or Deviant Art. So get drawing and get uploading! It's just for fun.Labels: art, illustration
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Over at blog the new shelton wet/dry they've got a post of some interesting photos of junk. This junk is art. Art that's been skillfully crafted (i.e. not a work by Emin in sight). The junk has been moulded into bizarre shapes, which when lit, cast eerily familiar shapes on the background. Brilliant.Labels: art
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Name: Carlton Hibbert
Home: Bath, Avon, United Kingdom
About Me: I'm a designer/illustrator working for Future Publishing. My illustrations appear in many publications and I make a big effort to commission and publicise other illustrators. Let me know if I should include you in my site. Er.. excuse the shades in the profile pic - I was on holiday, honest!
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