Happy New Year!

Welcome to our new drawing project! 

We are Ella and Tor, friends from the time when we were born in Roehampton Hospital in London two days apart. We have always drawn, both together and apart - and began our careers doing our Art Foundation Course together at Wimbledon School of Art in 1996.

After Wimbledon, Ella went to Winchester School of Art to take a Fine Art, Painting BA. Since then she has had a successful career in book design, and until recently was Head of Campbell Books having worked at Pan Macmillan for 15 years. She is now a freelance illustrator, designer and student on the Cambridge MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University.

Tor has an Illustration BA from Kingston University. She has been working as an artist and author since then, and has published over thirty children's books with publishers including Macmillan, Walker Books, Templar, Andersen and Quarto. She is also a contributor to The Phoenix weekly story comic for children, Bayard magazines in France and is currently a student on the Comics Intensive at the Sequential Artists' Workshop in Gainesville, Florida.

From a young age, Tor drew from her imagination, making up characters and comic scenes. Ella always drew from observation, taking the real world as her inspiration. We hope that coming from these different perspectives, there will be a lot we can learn from each other - whilst having fun too.

Each week on Thursday we will take turns setting each other drawing challenges. 

And once we're up and running we'd love it if people joined in!