Occult Ornithology Deck: Available to pre-order This weeks card spotlight is the twelfth card in the major arcana, The Hanged man. My version of The Hanged Man is represented by a ring necked pheasant. When I fist discussed creating this deck with my partner we were suggesting different birds for cards, the first suggestion for … Continue reading Card Spotlight: The Hanged Man
Occult Ornithology Tarot- now available to pre-order!This week's card spotlight is the 16th card in the major arcana, The Tower When it finally came to the time of designing the card for The Tower, I didn't have a specific bird in mind, I just knew it should be a sea bird or bird that nests … Continue reading Card Spotlight: The Tower
Occult Ornithology- Now on Kickstarter At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy The next card spotlight is for the Seventeenth card in the major arcana, The Star, … Continue reading Card spotlight: The Star
Vampire Squid As a way to unwind while working on my next major comic project (Maleficarum with Frisson Comics) I’ve been making illustrations of my favourite cephalopod species. Paper Nautilus The style has been fun to practice with so far, and may become my 2020 animal zine depending on results! Any excuse to draw octopus, … Continue reading Cephalopedia
At the time of writing this post, I have 10 days left on my Kickstarter and am inching closer to my #4th stretch goal which is an exclusive Kickstarter bookmark, here is my design: The theme of this design is perfection in knowledge. I'm really happy with how it has turned out! The symbol at … Continue reading Bookmark design
I have a collection of my experimental horror illustrations on Kickstarter at the moment. The book will be a 40 page full colour book collecting my horror art from 2017- till the present, talking about influences and unique colour choices for the works. The book (thanks to Kickstarter!) will have a lovely foiled cover and … Continue reading Memento Mori- Now on Kickstarter
I really enjoyed the colour palette for my last piece Ritual, so I decided to try my hand on a follow up piece, this time titled Madonna. I'm fairly pleased with how she's come out, and had quite a lot of fun with the composition of the image and rendering the decorative elements. I feel … Continue reading Madonna
my take on the prompt 'ritual' which is the theme of Liverpool Light Night. I decided I'd like to take part in Liverpool Horror Clubs event for the night and designed this piece. It's designed to be a subversion on sacrifice. I had a strong idea of what colour palette I wanted to use as … Continue reading Ritual
Did a revamp of my deep sea shark Inktober from 2015 in Risograph I'm really happy with how the Risograph added colour and style to this old piece! I'm loving Risograph as a medium at the moment as I feel it gives my work a lot of texture and depth and also forces me to … Continue reading Deep Sea Sharks
We got a new Risograph printer in work this week which I've done some tests on I'm quite excited to do some more Risograph work in the future! I love the texture it gives to my work, it adds so much depth to the pieces.
The Art of Katie Whittle 