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

These two pieces were drawn as gifts for an 70th birthday in October 2015. Brief was - He loves steam trains and Pumbaa from Disney's The Lion King, so you can guess what was created: Pumbaa Turn-around and signature pose Just a small note, this was my first time drawing a steam train, all in all it took a total of 4.5/5 hours to complete, from the first initial line drawing right through to the detailed shading of the train and its few carriages. Linda Steam Train Pencil

As you can see I haven't updated in well......a weeeeeeee while, and my apologies to my loyal followers who check back now and then to see if I've actually added anything new to the mix. Let just say that's life for you, and all the responsibilities of being an adult come into play, but its no excuse, I have to try harder and I gotta keep those creative juices following! So draw, draw, draw! Create, create! I haven't drawn and created as much as I would have liked so far this year, but on most of the projects I have done, I have thoroughly enjoyed them and the results were pretty good I think! (In my humble opinion ^_^ ) There shall be a few posts, as I try to back track through time and show what I've done, so bare with me and watch this space :) Christmas Pup (2015) Alcohol based copic pens and outliner pen 

I can't believe I have taken so long to actually put something up. Gosh!! Where does the time go I ask you? Where does it gooooooooooo?  >.< A lot has happened since I last posted something, in that time, I've celebrated my birthday, increased my anime figures collection, along with my Disney blu ray and DVD collection, watched some awesome films - Jurassic world being the most recent; and to top it all off I celebrated my mum's 50th birthday on a Disney cruise ship! It was amazing, Disney related things everywhere, it was a total dream and I'm so glad I got to experience it. Oooooo! and yes, my mum loved it too. It was nice to get a break away from everything, relax and have some nice family time together. ^_^ But now we are in August 2015 and I think its time I get back into the swing of things. Please bare with me, for now I'm going to be uploading some quick doodles I have done in work birthday cards, as well as a few personalised cards and a goodbye/g...

Seems the month of April has brought forth my card designing abilities. One for a work colleague who was sadly leaving :( Another for a work colleague who wanted a special birthday card created. Even though this was my first time drawing new characters, copied (Adventure Time) as well as ones created; it was awesomely fun to do, and they both came out really nicely. I was very pleased with the results yaye! ^_^ Commissioned Birthday Card: Good Luck Card: