July Highlights

It’s been a long month here at Silly Badger Designs and I’m sitting here writing this with a sleepy spaniel snoring at my feet as we try to avoid the heat outside today! It’s getting pretty hot this week and I think I’ve had enough. I love summer and sunshine but I just can’t take the intense heat. I just want to nap with Merlin all day.

So this month I finally want to share some of my recent custom pieces. I had the absolute pleasure of working on two custom wedding illustrations and they turned out amazing. I got to see pictures of the final printed pieces and they just had me feeling all of the emotions. I’m a bit of an emotional person anyway but these pieces are just so special, it really just hit me hard that my artwork was being used for these special moments. As someone who has experienced bad imposter syndrome in the past couple of years this really felt big.

I really loved bringing both of these designs to life, below is a close up of the ratty border for the Order of Service including the ratty in a tutu! I love these personal little details.

This one was just so much fun to create with the wildflower background for the little rats celebrating their humans marriage. I just love bringing these ideas to life.

I’ve also had some fantastic portrait commissions. This is probably one of my recent favourites as I don’t get to paint dogs often and this is also my first bull dog commission and I loved it! Bringing his character to life was so lovely with his sitting pose and the expression! I can’t get over the expression ❤️

The image on the left shows the initial rough sketch I create and the picture on the right is the final watercolour painting. I will be making a post soon showing the process of how I make portraits in August so people get a better idea of the process. I think it’ll be fun to share the ugly stage too when it all starts as a scruffy mess.

I’m still getting back in to writing again and although I’m enjoying it, I’m also trying not to talk too much here so I’m going to finish this here.

I will also be sending out my August Newsletter tomorrow and there’s going to be a subscriber only discount going out for both of my shops so sign up now if you haven’t already and fancy a cheeky discount code for August!