Rob Blackburn
Illustrator and Designer
Hi, I’m Rob!
I’m an all round creative type dude living in Lewes, Sussex.
I like to create art, illustrations, photos, writing and music. Check out my work below, read more on my blog or shoot me a message.
Featured Works
Here’s some of the things I have created, that I’m the most proud of.
As a multi-skilled creative type person I like to create websites, graphics, illustrations and photos
Illustrations
I love to create portraits, tattoo inspired illustrations and fantasy scenes as well as the occasional bad pun based cartoon!
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Photos
From landscape to portrait I love to shoot photos. I love both digital and analogue and develop my own films.. I’d love to do some darkroom prints and some studio portraits soon!
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Design
As a long time WordPress user and Visual design fan, I am called on by people to design and build their site or create their logos
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Latest from the blog…
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The play of light on a building site
They have been building some expensive flats for rich folk here in Lewes. I walk by it often with our greyhound Buster. This morning when I took these I was struck by the light coming through the building shells. I am obsessed with the play of light.
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some photos from the Tate Modern
Been tuning into social media escape club a bit and trying to use my website which I have had on and off for years, a bit more. Post here, probably repost on socials, might even not do that… Here are some photos from the Tate Modern I visited on a trip to see the Deftones…
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Ines Portrait
This one took me an age. Something about those lips and joyous smile hard to get right. Almost gave up on it several times. Done in Procreate. Model is Ines from https://www.draw-brighton.co.uk/.
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Gracie T-shirt Design
Inspired, as ever, by Ten Hundred’s second T-shirt design post on you tube I decided to follow his process more or less. So first of all I found a reference and sketched it up. Then into procreate for lines. Then off to Adobe Fresco for vectors. Here are some versions. and finally as a t-shirt…
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The neverending job of sorting out photos and I came across this reel I shot back in April 2023. Shot on an inherited Cosina ct1G entirely with sunny 16 (basically guessing) came out with these really nicely contrasty images. Self dev in Bellini monobath.
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Tattoo style Tiger
I created this tiger in procreate and then my old water bottles paint was chipping off, so an idea was born… Two colours spray paint and then a bit of acrylic painting. Had to under paint in white because the blue is such a strong colour.