Illustration showcase by Sarah J. Coleman: creative work for advertising, editorial, books, music and film

Illustration by Sarah J. Coleman: creative work for books, ads, walls, music, print & film

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“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?” — Banksy, Existencilism.

Artofficial Inktelligence II: Bro, they feel threatened.

https://medium.com/@inkymole/artofficial-inktelligence-ii-bro-they-feel-threatened-96bc41230355

What do you do when a car comes your way that's not gonna make it? Well, you can paint on it! A much-loved Nissan Pao at the end of its life, destined to be…

Painting A Pao - Vaporwave

A human-generated story in 3 chapters: 1/ Mad Journey.

Artofficial Inktelligence.

https://inkymole.medium.com/artofficial-inktelligence-a11873d6de2c

PM to announce proposals limiting number of enrolments on ‘low value’ degree courses in England

Sunak ‘attacking people’s aspirations’ with universities policy, Labour says

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/17/rishi-sunak-university-degrees-courses-england

This week marks the 35th anniversary of the premiere of the British nuclear war drama – which was dubbed “the night the country didn’t sleep”. It remains brutal but essential viewing.

Was Threads the scariest TV show ever made?

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190925-was-threads-the-scariest-tv-show-ever-made

From Flake to Lynx to Levi's, the story of the pioneering women making iconic TV ads

Mad Women

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/mad-women

https://mailchi.mp/inkymole/june-illustration-news-from-sarah-j-coleman

🍂🎃 Seasonal reading has commenced.🎃🍂
Two very different but deeply impressive covers, I love them both.

How do you present *all* that you do without overwhelming clients, specially with traditional pressure to 'have your thing'? "Stay in your lane" an agent once told me😑. I never have. But whether to have a separate 'Lettering & Type' folio; what d'you think? www.inkymole.com/work

Just sent my latest newsreel. If you’d like to receive it - since we’re mostly in algorithmic Stockholm Syndrome everywhere but here - you can do that via the link. No presh! 📮📲Since 2008

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Waiting for a logo project to roll out; always a frustrating wait!😄 I don't show my logo work much so here's another archived one. This custom logo was made to run alongside animated ads I did for KY - you know, 'personal lubricants'🍑 - shown on VH1. (Who wants to see the ads?)

New cover work! 
The new middlegrade novel by legendary children’s author Avi, whose book Gold Rush Girl I illustrated a couple of years ago, is published in August by Harpercollins USA. All made in Procreate, even the inky lines (but not the background, a scanned 1700s bible)✍🏻

Beautiful mosaics seen at the Blackpool Tower Circus on Sunday, sandwiched between a ghost signs tour and a day doing illustration at a primary school. Really quite a fabulous weekend.

Ink on my face. All my life. Being an adult is a myth 🖤

Our garden wall was hit by cars twice in a row. On rebuilding it we decided to hand-paint the street sign, but with bonus extra history, via a QR code you can follow! 🏡
https://www.inkymole.com/gopsallroad

My latest stationery acquisition - LOOK AT IT! Everything a Japanese schoolchild could need...or a nerdy illustrator in their fifties. 
かわいい 💛 (the car is a one-off, but the little Japanese erasers are stocked in my shop!)

👀NEWS👀
My third short story collaboration with horror writer Josh Allen will be out in August next year, just in time to slither onto the shelves for Hallowe'en.
Drawing Has Begun! 🎃

Here's the next in my trilogy of pieces on AI, if anyone enjoyed the first one!
It's focussed on the surprise vein of resentment towards artists that the technology has exposed.
https://medium.com/@inkymole/artofficial-inktelligence-ii-bro-they-feel-threatened-96bc41230355

The kids are here which means simultaneously tutoring in Gran Turismo AND Procreate: directing a 90s Silvia through the streets of Tokyo at 100mph while demonstrating two-finger tap undos. 💙💛🖤

This 4-colour print was made on one of my Goccos, a tiny Japanese printing machine from the 80s and a little relative of the more complex Riso! I collect them and their ephemera. Will be in my relaunched shop in a few weeks.
(Might put the Thank You font in for download too!)

Here’s the film about the Vaporwave Pao.
⚡️1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣5️⃣⚡️

https://vimeo.com/822664309

New article: the first in a trilogy, long in the brewing, about AI. Well; specifically about me - a professional, full-time illustrator for almost 30yrs - and my Artofficial Inktelligence™️©️
Part I: Madjourney”!

https://inkymole.medium.com/artofficial-inktelligence-a11873d6de2c

And Glastonbury's over for another year; roundabout now the team will be moving in to return the site to its former quiet! This was my logo for Glasto's cleanup campaign a few years ago, an oldie but still a fave for its colours/movement. Didn't overthink this one, and it worked!

Currently waiting for a big new logo project to roll out, and I realised I don't talk about my logo work much! So another one from the archive, hand-drawn for an organic fairtrade food outlet. They chose the wonkiest of the options I sent them! Which made a nice change. 🤪

Just in case anyone is interested, I’m in the process of putting loads of my 35mm camera gear up for sale - no longer needed!
Lenses, accessories, vintage filters to come. 
ebay.co.uk/usr/m…

☕️ Devil in the detail:
Our friends Lucy & Rob asked for a logo for their new coffee shop. I was chuffed that they went for this inkstravaganza, made from layers of coffee-scented ink on paper, hand-drawn letters, and a Q inspired by the ensō, a feature of sumi-e ink practice 🍂

Hello! Just finished setting up my Posts profile. Took way bloody longer than I thought it would; I’ve done more than I realised 🤓
Please come and say hello! I’ll make you a virtual coffee. ☕️

How misleading to assess on the basis of those first years? I was mixing high-paid lecturing with unpaid work AND modestly paid illustration. Growing a freelance career takes years.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/17/rishi-sunak-university-degrees-courses-england

Chose the new slimline @wacom pen to replace my exhausted original. It’s beautiful and, feeling like a ‘real’ pen in hand, I feel like I’m using a Wacom for the first time all over again. 🖤
All that muscle memory!

Amused at overhearing my own conversation thus:
- So can I get you on Messenger?
Me: No, I don't have it, it listens and it's creepy and Zucky
- You on Threads?
Me: yeah course

🎃Just signed a deal to do a creepy new book. 
🎃Just set up a new login, 'marianne-get-help' (if you know, you KNOW).
🎃Just listened to the brand new  #Uncanny podcast.
🎃And I've just registered a new .ghost domain.
ANYONE WOULD THINK IT'S OCTOBER already...!👻

I'm trying to find a 90s/00s illustrator whose work I like, her name I think was Nancy Tolhurst - I could be remembering wrong though! 
Does this ring a bell for anyone? Her work was kind of digital, pretty, with pronounced outer ink lines, a bit like this (though not this)

Painted this...6 yrs ago! No way. We've been back to Leicester's Graffwerk - organisers of the Bring The Paint festival - many times since and it's a joy to be there, with its full-spectrum rows of cans, shelves of pens and outrageous cake shop.
Words: Andrea Gibson.

Now playing in theatres across the USA! Such a brilliant achievement @aitchalberto. Can’t believe it was a whole year ago today I was in  Toronto having the best chat with your Mum & Dad 😀 Go and see this beautiful, gentle film about love, made with love. 
🤍🩵💙

Just arrived. I’m genuinely excited to start it. Japan? ✅ Ghosts? ✅ Ink art cover? ✅ Foiling? ✅
I am IN. (Yuko Shimizu did the art).

It’s a banging-techno-smashed-into-Bryan-Ferry kind of day.

Have Meta *really* named their Twitteralike after a terrifying cult film about an apocalypse and the abject horror of after? Who else watched and was scared to go to school next day?
#Threads 
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190925-was-threads-the-scariest-tv-show-ever-made

I'm rubbish with aerosols but what else are you gonna do when a canvas-on-wheels rolls in? We gave a much-loved Nissan Pao a fancy glow-up before its final journey to recycling, in a weekend adventure. 
IRL, messy, physical stuff that got me away from the desk for a bit!

I never realised before just now that Zendaya (namesake) Coleman was the star of this NFL campaign I did in 2013. Cool!
I don't think I've ever even put these in my folio 😅(Anyone else realised a decade late they got a bit behind with posting work?)

Picture it: 
You're drawing live, no warm-up, on a moving target with several watchers and no-one tells you what you're going to be drawing till they do. Oh and it might smudge everywhere and their Mum might tell you off. 
GO!

Found a rogue image in my #midjourney download that I *didn’t* generate. Anyone else had this happen?? 
(This is the one. Says I generated her; I didn’t and I don’t recognise the prompt!)

Evening viewing. Funny & moving, I've lived through each decade covered in the film and worked for all but a couple of the agencies featured. Immeasurable progress, still more to do. Made me grateful for my career & hungry for more!❤️
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/mad-women

Just sent out my latest newsreel. Full of bits and pieces done with my crayons and paints and pixels.
Have a look if you want! 

https://mailchi.mp/inkymole/june-illustration-news-from-sarah-j-coleman

(and you can be sent your own copy every month if you would like).

New studio acquisition - (adopted from @GPaintsMinis). Beautiful but she thicc - can only be picked up via a sumo deadlift. 📖🌸