Kevin McSherry hand painted and digital creative Illustration, Art and Storyboards

After a couple of months of not doing very much (isn't summer just like that? You get all this freedom and you don't know what to do with it.) I'm back painting. I picked up a canvas I started long ago -maybe even last year. It's been lying around gathering dust and knocks and God knows what else, so it was high time I stuck it back up on the easel.

It's my classes and students that help me to get back on the trail -I promise to do a demonstration at every class and just doing that creates a flow. Thanks, my lovely students!

I  often leave paintings unfinished for so long that I forget what I was thinking when I started. Who cares? Not I. Hopefully I'll have this done by this time next year...

I've been doing a lot of studying about vector art lately. It requires a shift in thinking, as it's not about lathering paint but more defining areas and filling them with colour. Perhaps a good analogy is the difference between an painter and an airbrush artist who has to mask off areas before committing to colour. It's a perfect way of creating neat illustrations very quickly. With the added advantage that it's easy to make amendments even after you think you've finished. I'm working in Affinity Designer, which has burst onto the vector graphics scene and has become a serious contender to Adobe's Illustrator program. Especially since Adobe made the move to a subscription-based business model.

These images are part of a collection I'm creating about stylish women -mostly from the twentieth century, although probably not exclusively, as I'll venture into any epoch. I'm depicting the various clothes fashions but also trying to evoke the design s…