Carlos Garde-Martin

Carlos Garde-Martin. UK illustrator's blog. This is the place where you can find out what I've been getting up to.

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Fishies! 🐟 More home made paint pen madness #sketchbook #illustration #fish #paintpens #workinprogress

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I hope ya'll are enjoying the sunshine! It's hoooooot! I've been enjoying making homemade paint pens. I wanted some different colours than are currently out there. This is good ol' yellow ochre #paintpens #workinprogress #illustration #sketchbook

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I've just been sorting out my summer vacation work planner for uni. It's colour coded and everyfink. Luckily I had my vacating last month instead 🌴there's a lot to get through, but I'm looking forward to the challenge! 💪🏼oh and some more of these fellas arrived in the post recently #brightonuni #masters #organisation #planneraddict #muscletoys #muscle #retrotoys

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I was sitting in a long meeting yesterday, and felt compelled to droodle a doodle. #doodle #illustration #shape #line #streetscene

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I've been making a mole based maze book game today at uni as part of a game workshop. #workshop #game #bookart #puzzle #mole #moleymoley #maze

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More sketchbook mayhem #sketchbook #workinprogress #illustration

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Bit of character development I'm working on at uni. Here you go Patricio Gildersleevios from @helloyukfun just for you 🕷 #characterdesign #workinprogress #character #spider #illustration #sketchbook

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Some excellent finds from yesterday's carboot 🤘#carboot #books #childrensbooks #madeline #illustration #bookart

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At the behest of Ali from @hellohellododo here's some of my recent sketchbook work. Im really enjoying playing around with shape and line. I hope you're having a good bank holiday Monday and possibly a fry up if you're that way inclined! 🥓🥚☕️🍽#sketchbook #fryup #fullenglish #illustration #bankholiday

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Where has the sunshine gone?.. ☀️ There's plenty left in the @hiphipcollective shed at the warren! Come and have a look 👀 #hiphipintheshed #thewarren #brighton #hiphipcollective #brightonpopup #illustration #graphicart

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Today's the day! Hip Hip will be in the shed selling some wares at the Warren all weekend. Come along, take a look and buy some quality stuff! #hiphipintheshed #hiphipcollective #thewarren #brightonfringe #brightonpopup #brighton

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Another snap taken at the Miro fundación! Take me back! #Miro #joanmiro #art #mallorca #painting #surrealism

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I've just got back from Mallorca and had the best time going to visit the Joan Miro fundación. I have loved his work since I was a kid. It was such a brilliant experience to see his studios, where he lived and worked for the last 40 years of his life. Amazing #surrealism #joanmiro #mallorca #art

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A little poem I wrote and illustrated recently #poetry #poem #nonsense #spider #illustration

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I've been busy filling this up and working on uni projects! I'm playing around with shape and line, and minimal colours at the moment. #workinprogress #sketchbook #posca #colour #shape

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Nice to catch up with some course mates and do some observation drawings at the booth museum today in Brighton. I love that place, it's such an odd victorian museum full of curiosities. #drawing #museum #illustration #moose #posca

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New sketchbook! #sketchbook #posca #people #drawing