Chrissy Curtin ✨

07 Strawberry for Peachtober 🍓

297/365 for my #365drawingscc project

#peachtober25 #peachtober25strawberry #illustration #irishartist #paperart #wip

Paper cut illustration of a strawberry with a wacky face and long green arms and legs that intertwine like a maze.

07 Strawberry Peachtober. Introducing this goofy little strawberry 🙃 🍓

297/365 for my #365drawingscc project

#peachtober25 #peachtober25strawberry #illustration #paperart #wip

01 Acorn Peachtober 🍂

296/365 for my #365drawingscc project

#peachtober25 #peachtober25acorn @furrylittlepeach.bsky.social

P.S. please pray for my hands with all the cutting I’ll have to do 😬🙏

This year I’m making a series of collaged paper cut illustrations with the theme of funny faces and wacky limbs. 🤪 I want to practice my character illustration and try working with simple shapes and flat color. So I hope you enjoy following along with me this month while I make them.

Paper cut illustration in orange and purple of an acorn character with long wobbly arms and a silly face

01 Acorn for Peachtober. Say hello to this wacky little guy 👋

296/365 for my #365drawingscc project

#peachtober25 #illustration #irishartist #paperart #collage #wip
@furrylittlepeach.bsky.social

Time to print and post the card in time for the party!! The final part of the series ✨

IGI turns 25 this year 🎉 Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for their Anniversary!!

I hope you liked learning all the steps it takes to make and print a card.

#illustration #irishillustrator

In part 4, we’re choosing a palette and making colour tests. lllustrators Ireland turns 25 this year 🎉 Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for their Anniversary!!

#illustration #irishillustrator #wip #greetingscard

Photo of my laptop with the card design showing on the screen with the program Affinity Publisher

Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for Illustrators Ireland 25th Anniversary!! Part 5 is out now over on TikTok.
#illustration #irishartist #greetingscard #procreate

In part 3, we’re drawing flats, choosing values and making shadows. Illustrators Ireland turns 25 this year 🎉 Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for their Anniversary!!

Check out my TikTok if you want to see the series as soon as I post it ✨

#illustration #irishillustrator #wip

Close up pic of me colouring the character on the iPad

Part 4 is all about choosing our palette and making colour tests. See the process over on TikTok

lllustrators Ireland turns 25 this year 🎉 Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for their Anniversary!!

#illustration #irishillustrator #wip #greetingscard

Up close picture of my iPad screen with a section of the drawing being selected with the Apple Pencil

Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for Illustrators Ireland 25th Anniversary!! Part 3 is out now over on TikTok. ✨
#illustration #irishartist #greetingscard #procreate

I think you can feel a bit sensitive until you’re used to it. I have one that has different strength settings so you can get used to the gentler one and you can move up. The main thing that hurts is if the water is cold!!!! So lukewarm is the way to go 🦷 ✨

lllustrators Ireland turns 25 this year 🎉 And each of the members is making a birthday card to celebrate!! Follow along with me as I make mine ✏️❤️

This time I’m working on finalising the linework before I move onto colouring it. ☺️

#illustration #irishartist #greetingscard #procreate

Birthday card with two cute candle characters shaped as the number 25

Happy 25th Anniversary Ilkustrators Ireland!! 🎉 Here’s to another 25!!

Come along to the celebration exhibition and party on the 10th September at the United Arts Club in Dublin.

#illustration #irishillustrator #irishartist #greetingscard

Close up of me drawing a character on an iPad

Follow along with me while I illustrate a card for Illustrators Irelands 25th Anniversary!! Part 2 is out now over on TikTok. I’m working on finalising the linework before I move onto colouring it. ☺️

#illustration #irishartist #greetingscard #procreate

Illustrators Ireland turns 25 this year! And each of the members is making a birthday card to celebrate!! Follow along with me as I make mine. #illustration #irishillustration

Final cover

Sketch

Line work

Black and white flats

Recent book cover project from sketch to final 💚💛 🇮🇪 I had a great time working on this.

Publisher: @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
Author: @paigingbrenna.bsky.social

Close up photo of the poster

Photo of people standing in the gallery looking at the artworks

Wide shot of people in the gallery

Photo of one person standing looking at one of the artworks

Some photos of my Shawlies poster at the Praising the Dead exhibition in June.

I’m always glad to be included in one of IGI’s shows. Thanks to Mark Hill & Sinead Woods for the lovely pictures since I couldn’t get there myself!!

#illustration #irishillustrator #irishartist #illustratorsireland

This is the full process on @procreate.com of my Shawlie illo for the Praising The Dead exhibition with IGI. 🎨 Really needed to give my hand a rest after this one 😴

#illustration #irishartist #procreate #irishhistory #process

Rough sketch

Final line

Black and white flats

Final art

Here’s the process of my Shawlies poster for the Praising the Dead show with Illustrators Ireland 🎨

I’m open for projects if you want bold, colorful and fun work for your brand, products or campaigns!

#illustration #irishartist #irishillustrator

Poster of 3 women sellers in a market with the text ‘Shawlies’ in Celtic script and a border or Celtic knots.

I made this for the Praising The Dead exhibition with IGI this year. The show was all about celebrating our historic icons, and fondly remembering the Irish things that are long past. RIP to my hands after drawing all those celtic knots btw 🩹💙

#irishillustrator #praisingthedead #illustratorsireland

Thanks! The satiny paper definitely helps!!!

Photo of the zine cover

Photo of pages inside the zine

Photo of pages inside the zine

Photo of the zine cover next to an opened zine showing some of the pages and fold

Some pretty photos of my Welcomings zine 2024 💚 I love a nice thick paper stock & it worked great for this zine which needed to hold up to being unfolded again and again!!

I’m available in 2025/26 to work on more books, so please reach out with any queries!

#illustration #welcomings

Big green maze with a heart shaped garden in the centre with a girl and dog inside it.

Illustration on the flip side of my Welcomings zine. Each zine unfolds out to reveal a poster on the back. Mine doubles as a maze puzzle, can you find your way to the centre? ✏️💚

I’m available in 2025/26 for work, so please reach out with any queries!
#welcomings #illustratorsireland

Page 1 and 2. A girl walks through a forest filled with eyes.

Page 3 and 4. Girl noticed she’s being followed.

Page 5. Girl finds an orchard and picks an apple. Someone watches from the bushes. Page 6. A dog barks at and scares the girl, they were following her all this time.

Last page. Girl and dog are friends and continue on their journey together. Front page. Girl stands outside dark forest. What could be waiting?

Throwback to the Welcomings project I did with IGI last summer. 💙💚 A silent zine about a girl’s journey through a strange place and the friend she makes along the way. It was a fun challenge to communicate a story without words. Can you tell the story? 💚 🐺

#irishillustrator #irishartist #welcomings

Initial sketch

Black and white flat colour

Final colour

A Fix of Light cover from sketch to final. 💜

I’m available in 2025/26 to work on more book covers, so please reach out with any queries!

@littleislandbooks.bsky.social @kelmenton.bsky.social
#illustration #irishartist #bookillustration #bookcovers #wip

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Sketch with thin serif lettering

Sketch with bold sans serif lettering with the word ‘light’ as scribbles

Sketch with bold sans serif lettering with the word ‘light’ in white

Sketch with bold sans serif lettering with a gradient going from dark to light from top to bottom

Some early sketches working out the title design on the cover of 'A Fix of Light' for @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @kelmenton.bsky.social . 💜

#illustration #irishartist #bookillustration #bookcovers #wip