Hi! I'm Emmie McKee. I'm a 20 year old girl from England whose main aspirations include becoming a freelance illustrator and designer, and reaching at least 5 foot in height. Sadly, only one of those goals is realistic (which is why I'm now studying for a degree in Illustration at the University of Wolverhampton and working as a free-lance illustrator.

Other than socialising, my hobbies include drawing, reading comic books, sleeping, eating and complaining at length.

This tumblr is for my own work, so please respect that when reblogging.

If you wanna look at my portfolio, go here: http://emmiemckee.deviantart.com
My business cards finally came in the mail today!  The weight of the paper and the finish on them is gorgeous! Very pleased with how they look, also ecstatic to be able to say ‘here’s my card’ to people from now on.
Click on the image to go to the Facebook page!

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My business cards finally came in the mail today!  The weight of the paper and the finish on them is gorgeous! Very pleased with how they look, also ecstatic to be able to say ‘here’s my card’ to people from now on.

Click on the image to go to the Facebook page!

Working up some initial sketches and FINALLY making a proper start on the kids’ story I’m illustrating to be published in the summer. Just some flat colour drawings of ‘Isabella the Fairy’, I’m going to add textures and a little extra shading here and there in the final pages.
ALSO, I now have a facebook page for my work over at http://www.facebook.com/EmmieMcKeeGraphicDesignAndIllustration - so if you like my work, a ‘like’ for the page would be GREATLY appreciated. :)

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Working up some initial sketches and FINALLY making a proper start on the kids’ story I’m illustrating to be published in the summer. Just some flat colour drawings of ‘Isabella the Fairy’, I’m going to add textures and a little extra shading here and there in the final pages.

ALSO, I now have a facebook page for my work over at http://www.facebook.com/EmmieMcKeeGraphicDesignAndIllustration - so if you like my work, a ‘like’ for the page would be GREATLY appreciated. :)

Messing around with some skulls I drew a while ago and making patterns as a break from work. Faux-screen print. Think it’d look pretty slick as wrapping paper or something. :P

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Messing around with some skulls I drew a while ago and making patterns as a break from work. Faux-screen print. Think it’d look pretty slick as wrapping paper or something. :P

An old doodle of a train ticket that I did in Illustrator back when I was on a train every day. You can tell how old it is by looking at the date on the ticket, ha. It’s really simple but I’ve always kind of liked this.

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An old doodle of a train ticket that I did in Illustrator back when I was on a train every day. You can tell how old it is by looking at the date on the ticket, ha. It’s really simple but I’ve always kind of liked this.

I got chosen to illustrate one of the stories that will be published as part of a collection for school children to read. They’re written by local children, too, AND I’m getting paid, so, yay! The one I got given is called ‘The Wicked Wizard Whelzim’, and the main character, apart from the wizard, is a fairy called Isabella. Here’s the second design I came up with for her, with colour variation tests, too. Everything I’ll be posting to do with this will be very messy and sketchy for a while, because I’m still trying to knock out as many quick ideas as possible!

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I got chosen to illustrate one of the stories that will be published as part of a collection for school children to read. They’re written by local children, too, AND I’m getting paid, so, yay! The one I got given is called ‘The Wicked Wizard Whelzim’, and the main character, apart from the wizard, is a fairy called Isabella. Here’s the second design I came up with for her, with colour variation tests, too. Everything I’ll be posting to do with this will be very messy and sketchy for a while, because I’m still trying to knock out as many quick ideas as possible!

Finally, an illustration I did just for fun! Just a quick Harley Quinn fan art, pencil sketch, then worked up in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3. Tried a bunch of new techniques with this one, think it worked pretty well. I’m sorely tempted to do more Batman fan art like this when I have some more free time. Photoshop was being SOOO slow when I was colouring this, but I’m just happy to have finished something quickly and of my own accord, haha.  

Finally, an illustration I did just for fun! Just a quick Harley Quinn fan art, pencil sketch, then worked up in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3. Tried a bunch of new techniques with this one, think it worked pretty well. I’m sorely tempted to do more Batman fan art like this when I have some more free time. Photoshop was being SOOO slow when I was colouring this, but I’m just happy to have finished something quickly and of my own accord, haha.  

Anonymous: Is that meant to be 'quite' or 'quiet'?... If it's quite, I don't get it :S But it looks really good!

Why is this an anonymous question? It’s ‘quite’, and I don’t understand why you’d be confused? ‘Quite passive’ makes perfect sense, it’s the same as saying ‘absolutely passive’, or ‘very passive’. In any case, thank you!

It’s been a while, and I’m afraid all I’ve had time to do is university work, I’ve had so much going on lately with other obligations that I barely have time to eat and sleep, either. So, this is for my ‘image with text’ module, there are two potential pieces for the same quote, which is taken from a book set in Nazi Germany. I like the one on the left because it’s so simplistic, but the one on the right is a much more obvious link to Nazi propaganda and censorship. I’d write more, but I currently have the world’s worst headache, so I’ll have to leave it there for now.

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It’s been a while, and I’m afraid all I’ve had time to do is university work, I’ve had so much going on lately with other obligations that I barely have time to eat and sleep, either. So, this is for my ‘image with text’ module, there are two potential pieces for the same quote, which is taken from a book set in Nazi Germany. I like the one on the left because it’s so simplistic, but the one on the right is a much more obvious link to Nazi propaganda and censorship. I’d write more, but I currently have the world’s worst headache, so I’ll have to leave it there for now.