Artist, illustrator & designer from Belfast NI - Rachel Devlin Illustration

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My final assignment for @makeartthatsells Illustra

My final assignment for @makeartthatsells Illustrating Childrens Books - the book cover.

It’s been such an intensive course to be part of with a huge learning curve but it was a lot of fun & I’ve learned a ton about both the childrens book industry and illustration industry as well as my own work as an artist.

Thank you Lilla & Zoe for a fabulous course! My brain is buzzing now 🤩🎨🎨🎨

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Today is a big day! 🎉#ElmersBigBelfastArtTrail

Today is a big day! 🎉#ElmersBigBelfastArtTrail has finally launched 💫

Which means after months of preparations & a couple of weeks of painting in May, I can finally show you my elephant
‘Elmer & The Butterflies’ 🦋🐘🎨 You can visit my Elmer between now & 31st August at St Anne’s Cathedral 😁 and the other incredible designs by the other artists are all throughout the city. They’re *amazing* 😮🤩

There’s a map to show you where all the Elmers are throughout the city, along with the coolest app to do the trail, collect the sculptures you’ve visited and find out more about each design. I love it!
Search ‘Elmer Belfast’ in your App Store 🤩

I’ll share more close up details of my design soon 🥰 but what a start to the week 💫✨🐘❤️

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My first ever children’s book illustration sprea

My first ever children’s book illustration spread, for @makeartthatsells Illustrating Children’s Books course.

If you’ve been following my Instagram over the past few weeks you might notice these aren’t the same animal characters I’d been working on 🥸
Truth is, I wasn’t really feeling it with the previous characters, it didn’t feel natural to me and it wasn’t going to lead me in the direction I wanted to.

So I rolled up my sleeves and started again from scratch. While it was a bit crazy changing my characters so late in the course (week 4 of 5!) and giving myself so much more work, I feel 100% like myself and LOVED every minute I’ve spent this past week drawing away and loving the time spent working on the details.

I’m hoping to have time soon to go back and rework the character studies, but I’m feeling a sense of achievement completing my first spread 🤩🎨💪 Thanks @makeartthatsells !!

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Yesterday was such a lovely day! I went to the @el

Yesterday was such a lovely day! I went to the @elmerbelfast artists preview event for the #elmersbigbelfasttrail 🐘🎨

It was lovely to see so many of the artists, sponsors & @nihospice staff involved in the Elmer Trail, & I also found out where in Belfast city centre my painted Elmer sculpture is going to be!

After having to keep the design under wraps for months now 🤐 I’ll be sharing ALLLL the details on Monday - 4 more sleeps! 🤩

Follow @elmerbelfast for all the info for the Trail app, map & events going on. There’s going to be an Elmer HQ in Castlecourt opening too, where there is the most gorgeous Elmer goodies, workshops & events happening during the Trail 🐘🎨🥰

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