Rob Blackburn

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.

Digital painting of a woman with black hair with blue hightlights smiling and looking out from her left eye while facing right over her shoulder.

As a multi-skilled creative type person I like to create websites, graphics, illustrations and photos

Illustrations

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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…

  • Ines Portrait

    Digital painting of a woman with black hair with blue hightlights smiling and looking out from her left eye while facing right over her shoulder.

    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/.

  • 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…

  • Process of Neo traditional style tattoo design. Happy with the bottom koi and the overall flow but look how I add too much colour and obliterate the whole thing… this I will have to have another bash at this one.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Neon Dragon

    Here is a design I made in procreate. I was thinking of having it as a back of hand tattoo. It’s a dragon, can you tell? My son thought it was a tiger or something…