H-Bomb and the Palindrones

This is a little piece I promised to a friend; a poster of H-Bomb and the Palindrones, a fictional band we made up after deciding a nickname suggested to me sounded like the lead singer for a rock band. Find represented Punk (in H-Bomb herself), Glam, Metal, Grunge and Pirate (yes, it's a legitimate rock sub-genre)! If you come up with names for the others then let me know!

H

Goldenface

Hey hey!

So here's a little piece I've done that started as a doodle and just kind... grew. For me she ended up being how I always imagined the magic mirror in Snow White; a character I always felt a little bit sorry for. She doesn't too happy about the whole situation either, but then again, neither would you if you were forced to help evil queens on a crazy rampage of attempted heart-eating and apple-poisoning. Bless 'er.

A little angst is good, but hopefully my next piece will be a little more cheery.

See you then!

H

Dinner and a Draw

Hey hey!

So! I've been a busy little bee working away for my MA Mid Point Review, but I'm glad to say that went rather well, so I can start posting again!
In celebration of the midpoint success (and because we try to go out to dinner on a regular basis) some friends and I went and had a very posh pizza and then went to the Life Drawing class over at the Book Club sponsored by Cass Art.
The Book Club's a great little venue, and seems to have quite a lot of great things running (electro swing and blues nights!) and the class itself was great. The leader was giving out tips, wine and all art materials were included in the cost. Excellent.

Anyway! Here's my favourites of the sketches I did. A short 5 minute (in the middle) and two 15's. Please excuse the quality of the digital copies - these are on A2 so running them through my A4 scanner would be difficult.

See you soon!

H

Paris Draw-a-thon 2011

Hey hey!

In a break from tradition I'm going to be putting the images I'm uploading below instead of above, as I feel you need a warning beforehand - there's quite a lot. These aren't even all of them, just a small selection of pieces that I liked.
I considered posting them over a period of time but a. I'd probably forget, and b. you'd inevitably get bored of "Here's another Paris post!"
I've deliberately left out the bright pink Notre Dame I did (nobody needs to see that - I think the sun had got to me) but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with the work! I really enjoyed getting back to working on coloured paper and only being able to work very immediately - no computer access! I also really liked the hazy pastels that kept creeping into stuff; I definitely want to use that more.

Anyway! Here's to it...














So! Hope you liked some of them! Words cannot express how wonderful it was just to spend four days drawing. Any comments/opinions always welcome - they make me happy in my soul!

Till next time...

See you later!

H

Because you've got to

Hello again!

Apologies for being rather slow on updating, many works in progress at the moment, and fewer final pieces as a rseult. Plus! I'm going away to Paris to draw for a few days (which I'm uber excited about - I've started making my own sketchbook to take with me) so that's been taking up a lot of organisation time.
Just before I go though, I thought I'd get the ol' Moulin Rouge'esque image out of my system. You've got to do at least one, if only to tip your hat to Toulouse Lautrec (I love his stuff - so much movement and life!). So here we go! One brush and inky, interesting fonty, slightly grubby looking pre-Paris piece.

See you soon lovelies!

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

Skulls and Skullduggery

Afternoon all!

Been a bit quiet on here as of late - I've got a new job so I've been off getting sorted for that (hence the skullduggery), but here's a piece I did just before that at the amazing Grant Museum of Zoology. Got quite a few odd looks as I stood for over an hour drawing a jar of skulls but it was too good an opportunity to miss - how often do you get to draw in a place that's decked out like a witches larder?

Next time I should be posting a sample of my lovely new business cards - exciting!

See you soon

H