Illustration

Editorial, packaging, wine labels, postcards, portraits and billboards. Most of it starts as a pen line; the colour comes after, in watercolour or on screen, depending on the brief.

Pen and ink landscape: a willow over a lake, long grasses, and a farmhouse restaurant with umbrellas — Landscape in pen and ink, 2022.

Illustrated dinner party in pen and ink with orange and pink watercolour — Cover illustration for a wine magazine, 2024.

Illustrated dinner party in pen and ink with orange and pink watercolour — Cover illustration for a wine magazine, 2024.

The line goes down first, then the colour.

Watercolour, painted on paper and scanned, for editorial and wine work. The pop colour for Nando's and the dog portraits is digital, over the same drawn line.

Watercolour study of a pink hibiscus — Hibiscus, from a botanical series.

Busy editorial illustration of families and children playing in a park — Medical editorial illustration, 2024.

Watercolour jungle of monstera, palms, hibiscus and pandanus — Botanical watercolours, 2024.

Pop art portraits in saturated colour for Nando's postcards — Postcards for Nando's.

A grid of dog portraits on bright colour blocks — Custom dog portraits, 2024.

Pencil and watercolour portrait of two young girls hugging — Portrait commission.

Illustrated pop-up town with roads, houses and vehicles — Pop-up illustration, 2024.

From the archive

Illustrated harvest in pen and ink with watercolour: people treading grapes in a wooden vat among the vines — Cover illustration for a wine magazine: the harvest, 2024.

Small editorial illustrations of people at work and play — Editorial illustrations, 2023.

An illustrated Game of Thrones billboard by a roadside — Game of Thrones billboard. For M-Net, 2017.

Hand-drawn tattoo-style lettering on black — Tattoo typography, 2023.

Illustrated postcards for Nando's in bright colour — More postcards for Nando's, 2024.

A grid of illustrated frames for an animation storyboard — Animatic illustrations, 2024.

An illustrated pop-up piece shown open from several angles — Illustrated pop-up, 2024.

Three soft watercolour portraits on white — Watercolour portraits, 2024.

Illustrated portraits made for personalised wine labels, with the bottles — Wine label portraits, 2024.

Chalk-style illustration and lettering on black boards — Chalkboard illustrations, 2023.

A sheet of illustrated parrot characters in different poses — Character design for a corporate client.

Blue lettering and illustration reading "Question" — Illustration for Standard Bank.

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A cover, a label, a campaign character. Tell Hazel what it's for and when.

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