Fab Europe are running a four day sale of my prints from today (20 March 2013)! I'm really excited as to what may come from this, and am really chuffed that they've approached me. All print fulfilment will be carried out by my good buddies Brough & Ready in England, so all the prints will be much larger than usual and gallery archive quality too! If you've always fancied investing in one of my prints, now may well be the time to act.
I've been toying with the idea of a new online store for a long time now. My Etsy page has done me proud over the last couple of years, but I've struggled with the lack of control I have over the page structure and overall design.
When appearing at London's Go Global Conference late last year, I was impressed by Mary Tan White's talk about her company moonfruit as an alternative to Etsy. As a result, I've spent the first week of this year designing my own fledgling online store The Hand Drawn Creative Shop (keep it simple). Now I have all my stock on offer in a clean, HDC branded environment (great!)
I was recently invited by Philip Wilson to post an article on Blick Studios' shiny new blog For those of you who don't know, Blick Shared Studios is a crackling nucleus of creativity based on Belfast's Malone Road, they're a great source of inspiration for folks like me who are just starting to fly solo in the creative industry.
My post involved a step-by-step diagram of the illustration process, using an illustration I'd recently completed for Philip, which you can see below.
Okay – I guess this is it – no more stalling. I'm much too scared to get embroiled in a proper Dreamweaver constructed website at this stage, so I guess that makes me a blogger now, as well as a Designer and an Illustrator!
Welcome then, to the first post of my (Neal McCullough's) new venture in the world of professional graphic design & illustration Hand Drawn Creative. I've been working steadily towards a freelance career for a few years now, but since October I've taken the plunge and have been busily working away at tax & marketing workshops, business plans and other boring 'real world' stuff.
Do keep dropping by – I'll be keeping you up to date with all my latest work as well as some of my favourite found online design & illustration forums.
See you all soon!