How to choose between Traditional Live Illustration and Dynamic Live Illustration?
Planning an event that you want your guests to remember above all others? Hire Zoe Parker Illustration as your live event illustrator! She will create live portraits of your guests very quickly and in a stylish fashion. Fancy something more immersive? How about Dynamic live guest illustration? Zoe will walk around capturing the whole scene as it unfolds. Keep the canvas for yourself- or create prints and thank you cards. Your guests will love to interact and share!
What’s it like Live Illustrating at the Classic Car Boot Sale?
My blog describing what it’s like to carry around a large piece of foam board and a load of pens in an apron around your waist. Where did I start with my drawing- what’s the process? How and why did I do it and what am I going to do with it now? Why did I choose to draw at the Classic Car Boot Sale? Spoiler alert- because it’s amazing and I can’t wait for the next one. I managed to fit in a bus, three cars, three mopeds, a motorbike, some stalls and some of the gorgeous crowd.
September/October
Zoe Parker Illustration marks her first year in business as a freelance live event, fashion and wedding illustrator. This month she has drawn live at the Museum of Croydon to celebrate the Essex House Tapestries by Grayson Perry, the British Academy of Management global conference and the Classic Car Boot Sale. See her in October at the National Wedding Show.
June Jubilation
In which: I reveal this month’s winner of my New Subscriber email list prize; show the Special Offer for July; celebrate Art on Our Doorstep with Culture Croydon at the Whitgift Centre: delight in Graduate Fashion Week with live illustrations from the catwalk; enjoy another Dress Up and Draw Workshop with The Hive Design Studio; showcase a beautiful birthday party live illustration from a summer garden; delight in creating an action packed live illustration at Joy Collective’s Joy Jam. Revel in promoting my next 2 workshops at Museum of Croydon before I finally explain why I am changing the name of my website..
April Showers…
April Showers of fashion illustration in this months blog. Different examples of fashion illustration, live event illustration, graphic recording, a fashion illustration workshop and two Art Shows. Live illustrating at a music concert and at at sell-out charity event. A Private View in Central Croydon. Links to prints, postcards, commissions and booking details for upcoming events and wedding illustration.
February’s Cover Star…
…every month (well, since February) I choose a new person to draw from my mailing list. The only criteria is that they need to have been added to my mailing list that month. So here is February’s winner…
…the glamourous Cheryl Huggins, who I had the absolute pleasure of meeting at a recent Ladies Who Latte networking event in Bromley on February 25th. Cheryl is a makeup artist, skincare expert and educator. She recently featured in Life in Bromley magazine, among many other achievements, and I will add her professional contact details at the end of my newsletter.
Wondering how to support my business?
Services include Fashion Illustration, Live Event Illustration, Graphic Recording, Live Wedding Illustration, Window Painting, Mural Painting, Portrait Commissions, Architectural Paintings, Celebrity Illustrations, Editorial Illustrations, Workshops, Reportage Sketching… and more!
Hey, you look cool! Do you mind if I draw you?
My picture shows three of the founders of Croydon Make and Create, posing for a live fashion illustration. They are attending the launch party for Croydon Creative Enterprise Zone. This is just one of the many highlights of my second month as a freelance fashion illustrator, I am loving this lifestyle and meeting these amazing people!