Diyana Abbasali

For this years Valentines Day I not only created Valentines Day cards, but I was also asked to create something special for one of my work colleagues. His brief was simple - 'my fiance likes cats and playing the piano' Final Piece It also got nicely framed Stages of creation: First Pencil drawing, and then outlined in black pen First stage of colouring using copic sketch markers, I decided to colour the keys in first to make sure I could get the right effect for the ivory. This was the hardest part of the piece as it took me 1 and half hours to colour all the keys in. Once I was happy with the keys and how they looked, I then finished the rest of the piece, leaving the cat til last. The cat was last to be coloured, as I was undecided about what colour to colour it, in the end I decided on white cat so it could contrast nicely with that of the black piano, but made sure to focus heavily on its green eye colour so that it was the most striking and ma

Sticking with the theme of cards, I managed to source some more examples of cards I have created, spanning from early 2015 - early this year, you will see I have have some quick line drawings as well as colored drawings using alcohol based pens. Valentines Day Cards:   Anniversary cards: Quick fox sketch: Baby Congratulations Commission: Baby Congratulations Card (Front) Inside of card

I always find as we approach Christmas and the new year, it becomes the season of cards. So for Christmas and a fair few birthdays and other special days all seem to be at the start of the year. Here are a few cards from last year (2015) Christmas and a birthday card for early January 2016. Hunger Games themed Birthday Card featuring Katniss A picture of  Peeta also featured inside the birthday card A Christmas card featuring Pikachu and Stitch