Rachel's Blog

Lately I’ve had a number of enquiries from companies and individuals wanting to commission me, and pay me in promises of “exposure”. In fact I’ve had around 10 individual emails about such commissions in the past two months, which lead me to adding an information section to my contact page – stating that I would [...][read more]
(Recovered one of the only articles in this series that were save, unfortunately everything else was lost in the server transferr)   This is mainly for those totally new to promoting yourself, I am not by any means an expert on self promotion but I thought I’d share what I have learned in the past [...][read more]
So after many varied commissions this year and really not wanting to specialise as I enjoy doing varied work FAR TOO MUCH - I decided to create a new area to my website the “Teen+” are, this is simply for me to have a nice neat portfolio for my skateboard art, more teen based fantasy [...][read more]
I’m getting back into my old line of work in graphics, decals and deck art. While I’m tossing around the idea of creating a totally new section to my website for decks I’ll post some of the stuff I’ve been working on here.   This is the image I’ve been working on over the past [...][read more]
While sat in Twiggs last night I was idly browsing through the free publications to pass time, and to see if I could find any creatives listing themselves, or local studios, or anything of the like. A little postcard caught my eye, well, it blinded me with how blue and loud and ugly it was [...][read more]
  The so-far of another T-shirt design, I plan on doing 3 rows of these little guys. If anyone has any ideas for some other monsters/characters let me know! I plan on doing a Vader one too!   —– Rachel is a freelance illustrator living in North Bay, Ontario.[read more]
Subcribe