New Ilustrations

I love it when that flow of ideas happens and everything I draw seems to turn out right. So here are some new illustrations which have developed from that flow. You can view some of my sketches from my recent work too, under my ‘From the sketch book’ tab. Its so nice to share work in progress and see how it differs or doesn’t differ from the final illustration. Enjoy! xx

The perfect way to spend a Sunday. Gardening

Ahh, nothing better than kicking off your shoes an having a snooze in the sunshine.

Washing day is a fun day i this garden

Pug Love, and leopard print leggings perfect.

Yummy cakes and Tea, after shopping of course.

Ah the lovely British summer

I likey the black and white version too.

 

Meet Ella & Earl

I always love to think of new characters, it isn’t enough just to draw a picture I really need to be part of a world. So with out further ado here are 2 new faces.

Ella & Earl, it was going to be Ted and Ella but somewhere Earl snuck in and it’s just stuck.

I like to make my characters into paper dolls so I can play with them and dress them up. It also helps me to think of a narrative.

A trip to the each was my first thought so here they are…

Ella and Earl waiting for their clothes

Earl wears: Lime print shorts, retro T and sandals

Ella wears little blue sailor dress and orange sandals

Earl wears: Green swimming costume and arm-bands

Ella and Earl are ready for the beach

Here are some other illustrations from their day at the beach.

Ella – Ice cream stop

Earl – Shark in the water!

I’m so excited to be working with 2 new characters, more to come…..

Birthdays and Babies…….

always a time for celebration.

I am working on some new illustration which is something I haven’t done for a while. For no other reason that life just being very busy and hectic leaving little time for inspiration and relaxation.

But somehow its has happened despite life not actually changing all that much. Really enjoying creating something without an agenda, its just for me. Going to re-vamp my Etsy shop and just enjoy creating what I like and hopefully others will too.

I am also not going to rush which is something I always do, as I feel once I have ideas they will run out so I use my moment of inspiration to get as much done as possible, not this time though just going to go with the flow.

All sounds good in theory doesn’t it…..lets see how I go!

Here are some works thus far, more under the ‘Illustration’ tab.

Twirl skirt

Baby bum!

I’m Here for the Party.

Peek a boo

Winter has arrived……….

A few sketches I have been working on today..

Winter boy

winter boy study

cosy toes sippers

and here are the finished illustrations.

Winter hat..

Winter boots

Winter Coat

Winter mittens…winter done

Cosy Toesy

Even more Cosy toes

Its all about wrapping up and keeping warm Brrr.

How it all began…

I have just set up a new Blog site oglintales.wordpress.com , so in honor of this I thought I would explain a little about how my Oglins came to be.

I was having a pretty rubbish time personally so had begun to be more creative again as a way of escape. It all was part of my grand scheme to try to rediscover myself underneath the layers of submissiveness and difficulties life had brought me. Somewhere along the way I had lost my artist self and I was trying to find her/it again.

Anyway, many bad drawings followed along with half baked ideas and stories that I got bored of as quickly as I thought them up, then one night I had a dream – stay with me here people I’m not about to get all crazy, but I had a dream I was in huge street parade. I was chasing this massive balloon. I don’t know why? but I needed to catch it in order to give it back to someone. There was also another person, a man chasing after the balloon too. Anyway I caught the balloon first, gave it to this family then all fireworks, streamers and confetti rained down on us. When I woke up I still had the image of this balloon in my head as clear as day and this is what it looked like.

 

Hmm, I thought what is this? This is different. Not drawn this before, and I immediately wanted to draw more, ideas flooded in and quite quickly I had created this whole world on an Island called Ogin. I gave all my characters names and they all had different personalities. I had finally created the type of world I longed to discover, I suppose it had always been there just waiting to be found.

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So after lots of drawing, making up strange words, hating it & loving it. I decided to let others see my work too. That’s why I started this blog and took my first little steps onto twitter. The response was lovely, so supportive. I thought I would be trolled after 5 mins and I would have to scurry back to the safety of my kitchen table, but it wasn’t the case.

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I embraced the Oglins whole heartedly  and so did others but something just wouldn’t let them just be them selves I kept trying to fit them into all manor of guises (cards, purses, bags etc…) rather than just let them live on the Island as I had planned. Everything suddenly felt silly, what if people didn’t like it? I didn’t feel brave enough to be myself or let them be themselves.

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But now I’m feeling brave, so brave I’ve started a whole new blog all about Ogin Island the people who live there and everything in between. I’ve packed away my purses and greetings cards just for the time being and I’m letting the Oglins live as nature intended. Which is a bit like how I feel about myself now. I like and accept myself again and I am happy being who I am, just  as nature intended.

http://oglintales.wordpress.com/

 

Its all about Moe

Hello all, its been a while hasn’t it?

We have been so busy here at Illustration headquarters preparing our new range of Stationery/Greetings Cards and here it is . A very special collection for a very special little Oglin – Moe. Hope you like it

HUGE NEWS from the 12th of August you will be able buy my lovely Cards and Stationary from Our Hand Made Collective, 19 Grand Arcade Leeds, LS1 6PG  – and at The Bowery, 54 Otley Road Headingley, Leeds, LS6  too!!!

As i have said we have been very busy, but here some images of my new collection. Just CLICK on the link to my Etsy site to see my the full range http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CharlotteDyton

 

****My Etsy shop is currently closed until I return from my Holiday on the 8th of August, but feel free to peruse, favourite and follow whilst I am away ****

 

 

The Grand Store Opening #Oglinstakeover

Yes we have got there, we have done it, the big day has come.

Its been a very testing, busy and exciting week, but above all its been worth it to get to where we are now – this day right here.

Take a look at the  Charlotte Dyton Illustration shop here; http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CharlotteDyton

We have a huge range of Oglin goodies, from greetings cards to note books to limited edition prints, so that you too can take home a little bit of Oglin Magic.

 

All tucked up beneath snuggley blankets, listening to the gentle sigh of the sea, with your feet buried deep , in soft warm golden sands – Sounds serene, no wonder Bobin has fallen asleep.

One of my personal favourite’s.
See the little Oglins watch them bounce bounce bounce.
This cant help but make you smile.

Such a tense game, no matter how slowly you try to pull the plastic rods out, the clatter of the marbles falling to the bottom still puts me on edge. Bobin looks more worried than Moe.

Lots of Lovely Oglins – Note book – perfect for making list’s – I love making lists.

This has to be my favourite print from the limited edition collection. Eedy is busy picking delicious ruby red strawberries and playing with her very sweet little toy farm.

A huge thank you to all who have supported this project and kept me going when times have felt lets say a little bleak – I really couldn’t have done any of this with out that extra push in the right direction – thank you xx

#Oglinstakeover 1 more day to go

Is this the calm before the storm?

I’m not sure but everything seems very eerily calm at the moment here at Oglin HQ.  Well I wont tempt fate – Here’s what we have been up to thus far.

Home sweet Home – The Oglins live somewhere between here and there and near no where in particular, theirs is a happy little home filled with fun and adventure.

A pretty little card to let someone know how much you appreciate them. Think I will need to send out a few of these once we are all up and running.

‘Bipin can you hear me’, calls Bobin from 3 feet away. This illustration has become a firm favourite

Moe and her umbrella. Sometimes in life it just rains and rains, but Moe is on hand to cheer you up and keep you sheltered from any wet weather.

 

 

A very special limited addition print. I love Gurties t- shirt, wish I had one too.
Just one last print to show you tomorrow!                                                                                                                                                                

Look out for my final installment tomorrow when my shop will be up and running – yipee!

2 More Days eek! #Oglinstakeover

Hello, things have settled down a bit now at Oglins HQ as we get to grips more and more everyday with the setting up of the Etsy shop. We been busy adding the ‘General/Any Occasion Range’ – here is a flavour of whats on offer!

A lovely card for a lovely cook or baker.
Here are all the things needed to make the best cake ever.

Another popular print, the Oglins are enjoying a Milkshake at there favourite shake bar ‘Milky & Me’.

Just in case you didn’t know here are the Oglins, these are their names.
This is the perfect family photo.

One of my favourite and most popular prints.
Just looking at it make me want to dash to the nearest sweet shop.

 

Another very special one off print, that will not be made into a card or no book but will only be available as a signed & dated print.                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Back tomorrow with our final update before we open the doors of our Etsy store – Exciting times! x

#Oglinstakeover 3 more days to go

Ahh, things have been a little less stressful today, so much so that we have been able to get some new illustrations done, but more about that later – First let me show you some of the pictures from the delightful ‘At Play’ range.

One of my personal favorite’s.
See the little Oglins watch them bounce bounce bounce.
This illustration cant help but make you smile.

I love this one too – The Marching Band
Bipin looks to be getting really into the Maraca shaking as does Eedy on the trumpet, toot toot.
What a noisy racket they must all be making!

Such a tense game, no matter how slowly you try to pull the plastic rods out, the clatter of the marbles falling to the bottom still puts me on edge. Bobin looks more worried than Moe.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

And now for something a little bit different –

We wanted to create something special, so we designed 4 very fabulous one off prints, they will not be made into cards or note books and will only be available as prints signed and dated.  

Here’s a sneaky peek at one of the prints available.

                                                                               Bipin and Bobin play cars

More updates coming your way tomorrow, yipeee x