Make your own Angel card

 This next week or so I'll be updating my blog daily with all the work I've not shared yet!

Let's kick off with 2021's Christmas card... a make-your-own angel.

I love doing pop-up or make-your-own cards - they elevate a simple card into something between a card and a gift, and give little hands (or larger ones!) something to do over the Christmas period.

Christmas Card designs 2016

Hello my lovelies!

Introducing this year's Christmas cards designs. This year's Christmas cards are a little bit different. Instead of just having a design on the front, I've created two wrap around designs to make the best use of the available space!
The cards are square, and contain a message inside.

10% of the profits will be going to a homeless charity, Crisis, so you'll be doing some good as well as getting some pretty awesome cards.

I'm just waiting for he proofs to come back so I can make any minor adjustments needed for printing, so hopefully by the end of the month, these bad boys will be available to buy, both separately and in mixed packs.
One is a play on the traditional hymn "Hark the herald angels sing" and the other a loving homage to Home Alone.

Enjoy.

Christmas Cards 2011!

Hello all!

Sorry I've been quiet for so long - it's been a rather hectic month I'm afraid. 

I've been working to finish my research paper (which is finally done and dusted!), make quite a lot of Christmas presents for people (which will be uploaded once they've been opened by the recipients), working on a few commissions (I'll upload what I can), working and (obviously) making Christmas cards for people. 

I was perfectly fine with this workload, but my body organised a mutiny and punished me with a rather nasty dose of Tracheitis.

I'm currently bundled up in bed with a mug of hot Ribena (throat soother of champions) and strong antibiotics. I've actually been stuck in bed since last Tuesday with the monotony only broken by two doctors appointments and my mum turning up at my house, rolling me in a duvet, and driving me to hers to be fed chicken soup and worried about at a shorter distance. I must've looked (and sounded) pretty rough on Skype.

Anyway, that's enough of that - I thought this year instead of the usual style of Christmas card I'd go a slightly different direction and do a narrative based comic-card. Undoubtedly the many new graphic novel artists at uni this year are having an influence!

It's designed to be printed on both sides of an A4 sheet, slit in the middle, and folded so it creates a little book that can then be unfolded to see the poster inside.

This little piece is done with black and grey ink pens on paper and then photocopied on to some nice laid paper (I love that stuff). There was a run of 50 in total.

You might recognise it coz it's the same process I used for the 'Le Petomane' piece in my portfolio that Jonny Hannah taught us at Kingston Uni.

See you soon! Sooner than last time in any case ;)

H

Dad's Day Card

Another year, another father's day card! I love that my dad understands me enough to know that it's a good thing when I say I love him more than Midsomer Murders. I also had great fun making the envelope looks like a 6 year-old had done it.

H

My Lovely New Business Cards

Hello again!

Here are my lovely new business cards that I'm really excited about!
Basically I wanted to have two options card-wise, so I could give out ones with or without my full contact details, depending on the situation. So I've introduced these, mini-cards that have just my name and my website for general promotion purposes, and then the full business cards with everything on them.
I'm also changing my website name from itchy-fingers.co.uk to hannahradenkova.co.uk, just because of the sheer amount of time that explanation took in a conversation about my work.
The website itself is undergoing some pretty hefty changes as well, to streamline everything and make it quicker, so I'll keep you posted as to how that's going.

If you want any details about any of the artwork, let me know!

See you soon!

H

Ducky Chic

Evening All!

I'm trying to get myself to start posting on a more regular basis (particularly as I've been going drawing every week for a while now) so I'm going to attempt to match those weekly location sketches with a post of my other work. Fingers crossed!
On that note, I present my cousin, Olly, the newest, cutest little addition to our family. He's very cool; not everyone can pull off ducky chic, you know.

(I've also discovered drawing cute kids is a lot easier when you have particular parents in mind as you automatically think "Will they send me a birthday card if I suggest this is their child?" and then you can work out where you're going wrong from there.)

H

Merry Christmas!

Here's my final Christmas post and my final Christmas card design for this year!

This one was for the lovely people at the Deli Station and was sent out to their clients earlier this december.

Merry Christmas everyone!


H

Christmas is back! And this time, it's personal.

My final card in the stained glass series this year. This one's my favourite: Hark the Herald Angels Swing. This is the piece that really made me enjoying painting again - it was so lovely to try different colour palettes than normal and get to apply it like this.

Only one more Christmassy post to go now... honest.

H

Chrimbo cards: Part Deux!

Some more of my stained glass christmas cards! Getting rather excited now! More to come soon, as well as some other work...

H

Christmas is coming!

As an avid fan of Christmas, I tend to do quite a lot of Christmas card designs. I'll be popping them up over the next few weeks ready for the big day!

H