Welcome to the website of Lewis McGrattan, illustrator and character designer. I have a
variety of styles, ranging from semi-realistic digital paintings to cartoonish characters. If you are interested in a commission, collaboration or other illustrative project, please do feel free to contact me (details linked above). |
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Recently, I was tasked with creating a logo for the St Bernadette's Parish Players drama club. After correspondence, several sketches and drafts, I finally came up with the final design which they were quite happy with, seen below. It is now used by them on T-shits, document headers, emails etc:
You can see below some of my illustrative works, both in radically different styles
I often returnto traditional artwork. Below is a design for a greetings card, a dragon in his abode. The inside would read "Be it ever so humble..." with room for the sender to write their own message.
The bulk of the image was painted traditionally, then I used the pen tool in Photoshop to form the banner, creating the paper background pattern myself to place behind the title. I used black text, and lowered the opacity so that it fit in with the relatively muted colours of the rest of the design.
The bulk of the image was painted traditionally, then I used the pen tool in Photoshop to form the banner, creating the paper background pattern myself to place behind the title. I used black text, and lowered the opacity so that it fit in with the relatively muted colours of the rest of the design.
Below are three greetings cards I created with an original character 'Kitty-Fox,' meant to be a cute and innocent character for a series of funny or endearing cards.
Click to expand and see the full designs, including text
Click to expand and see the full designs, including text
This is the "Frog's Bottom by Ribbit's Brewery" bespoke design, to demonstrate my ability to create a complex logo, in this case for a fictional alcoholic beverage. This is a digital painting, which took in total four hours to create, using a variety of digital design skills.
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I created a sort of fantasy creature, just from imagination. An odd combination of a hamster, kitten and hippo with thin, soft fuzziness, just straggling the line between being extremely cute and slightly creepy.
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Pencil sketch from life study. I observed a pretty forest in the Lake District, as it has so many. It inspired me to draw free-hand, and this was the result. Took roughly 30 minutes.
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This is a watercolour painting, based on the idea of youth wistfully staring at its future, even as its future wistfully looks upon the naiveté of youth.
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This flier demonstrates a range of skills with various Adobe softwares. The tree image was digitally painted in Photoshop, the small graphics on each side were designed in Illustrator, and the layout and text were put together using InDesign.
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