Cordy Kelly Doodles

I began learning digital illustration summer 2021, with absolutely no clue what I was doing. It has been great fun to learn this skill, and my goal is to one day design my promotional materials. This is my journey. Photos are in reverse chronological order, so scroll back to see where I started!

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Bookmarks

Fantasy Maps

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Journal Covers

Summer 2023

Circus Farfelle Illustrations

French Greeting Cards

Spring 2023

Wildflowers for spring

Winter

Sketchwork and stipple

Sketches for my new short story collection, Then She Said Hush:

The Witnesses
Unfreeze
Pressure Cooker
The Duelling Houses of Warwick and Stone
Lost Art of Listening
A Life for a Life

Character Work

snowflakes on pine forest in woodcut effect

Holidays 2022

Sign Joyeux Noel over stockings by the fire illustration
Christmas mug with candy canes, cookies and cinnamon sticks
Oil painting illustration stockings over the fire

Halloween 2022

Haunted house behind a fence in spooky woodcut illustration
Lettering Cordelia Kelly with owls and a fence in a woodcut
I put a spell on you, and now you're mine lettering over an illustrated love potion bottle
L'halloween c'est boo lettering with black cat, witches hat and candlestick
Lettering C'est L'halloween, a cauldron and two bottles of potion
Halloween Cards
My favourite quote for my favourite month
Only my favourite season!
It’s that spooky time of year again
Last image of summer 2022
Elodie Under the Umbrella
A bookmark for wisdom
Girl reading book waving wand
Book witch
Girl in cowboy hat
Stylized self portrait
Sketch of boy with sword
Emperor
Young boy with sword
Fighter
Woman with staff and magic flame
Sorceress
Girl floating flower
Healer
Character sketches for fantasy reading game
Field of sunflowers illustration
Sunflowers
Miel de provence lettering on sunflower background
Miel de Provence
Honey comb and jar of honey illustration
Honey/comb
Studies in honey and sunflower
Graphic illustration summer lettering
Summer
Lettering on candle: Kindess Spreads like Wildfire
Kindness spreads like wildfire
Different styles of lettering
Lettering sample
Card and flower, lettering: Nobody said this was going to be easy
Note to self
Lettering Miel de Provence
Miel de Provence
Illustrative lettering
Parisian cafe illustrated scene
Cafe de Paris
Illustrated flower pot
Flower pot
Wildflower bunch with wording fleurs sauvage
Fleurs sauvages
Florals
Illustrated girl running through field of flowers
Joy
watercolor limes
Limes
Lemon slices
Lemon wallpaper
Watercolour and ink oranges
Oranges
Citrus
Pink rose in watercolors
Watercolour rose
Illustrated ball of knitting
Knit ball
illustrated bubble
Bubble
Brown grey feather, illustrated
Feather
Cinnamon roll and coffee
Cozy cinnamon roll
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins illustrated recipe
Ilustrated Recipe
Illustration of bag of flour
Flour
Egg broken open with yoke illustration
Illustrated eggs
Square of butter, illustrated
Butter
Bowl of chocolate chips, illustrated
Chocolate chips
Illustration of chocolate chip muffin
Chocolate Chip Muffin
Illustrated bananas
Bananas
The makings of a muffin
Lettering: I Will Succeed on my Own Terms
New Year’s Resolution
Noel lettering surrounded by snowflakes
Noel
Lettering Paix in Christmas greenery
Paix
Christmas wreath with lettering: Joie
Joie
Christmas wreath with Vive le Vent lettering
Vive le vent
Christmas Wreaths
Illustration of house decorated for Christmas
Snowy Christmas house
Snow covered hill with pines and homes
Snowy Hills
Snowy houses for Christmas
Christmas cards with kids looking out window
Watching for reindeer
My kids – for Christmas cards 2021
Cozy season begins 2021
Remembrance Day, 2021
A few sketches – tiles and snack ideas
Some Halloween sketches from 2021 – I love my tired witch!
Fig tart
Delicious in Tarts
Illustrated figs
Some images to go with my short story, Delicious in Tarts
Every Child Matters
A reminder
Because butter really is love
End of summer sketches with some colour!
First attempts! This is the first time I have done any kind of drawing with colour since … Art 30? About a hundred years ago. Here’s a video of the struggle!
Illustrated letter K with knitting needles
Illustrative Y with fireworks, the word Yay
First attempts at sketching in Procreate! It’s fun but feels like I’m writing with my left hand. I followed Gia Graham’s Hand Lettering in Procreate Fundamentals, in Skillshare.
Hand-drawn sketches

Some of my earliest attempts at sketching!

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