Some of my favourite idea generation tips and a peek at my creative process for designing live illustration installations.

For National Recycling Day, I designed and painted the windows of Nespresso’s flagship boutique store in Regent Street, London. #recyclewithnespresso

Visualising Dove’s sustainability commitment; 100% recycled plastic bottles.

Live illustration / window installation painting at Sea Containers, London.

Why i’m closing my Etsy shop. Looking at the pros and cons of selling online with Etsy, business life as an ilustrator #notahobby, and taking a good look at time vs profit.

The BIG Creative Teachers’ Event - live digital illustration March 2019.

Live illustration for medical academic interviews at NHS North Tyneside.

Borders Art Fair preview evening - live illustrating guests as they arrived to appreciate the art.

Here are my best tips. When you really need to get stuff done. When your brain is singing LA LA LA and you’ve been sucked into a never ending social media hole.

All of these are digital drawings, created using my iPad Pro in Procreate. I’ve been working with the iPad since April 2018, and while the Apple Pencil took a bit of getting used to, I am loving it now. Being able to take my work anywhere with me (without lugging my giant laptop around) is really wonderful.

How Instagram (and the internet in general) has changed my life and enabled me to sell my illustrations and paintings all over the world, as well as access to exciting opportunities despite this rural location.

Shiny new branding created for The Bike Barn. Mark commissioned this logo to be in keeping with the logo I created for his wife’s business ‘The Dog House’, also known as Foulden Dog Training.

“Live Illustration looks set to be huge in 2018! With everything from weddings to events and parties getting in on the action we’re finding out all about it with Katie Chappell…” -Printed.com