About Yellow Phonebox Art
A big fluffy hello to you!
I’m Magz.
Back in 2017/18 I rediscovered how much I love drawing, scribbling and doodling. The obvious next step was to create a multi-global dominating brand to inflict the world with all my arty stuff.
Working from home, I opened my little Etsy shop wondering whether anyone would like to buy a postcard or greeting card adorned with my scribbles, perhaps even be tempted to purchase a print of one of my drawings. To my absolute surprise, they did!
I work mainly with colour pencil but also dabble with watercolour, acrylic, pastels, marker pens and usually end up splatting a bit of everything on any given piece as I go along.
I’d say I have two types of art going on (typical Gemini!) One side is highly detailed drawing and painting, the other being cartoony graphics which I use for stickers and things.
I prefer using traditional methods for painting and drawing but I like to use a bit of lovely digital tech for most of the graphics work. Even so, I always start a new graphic image with good old pencil and paper in my trusty sketchbooks. From there I take a photo or scan the basic sketch to redraw and colour it on my tablet (Galaxy S6 Lite.)
All the things I have in my shop, both online and in-person (I’ve recently started having a trader table at local comic-cons and fairs!) are made by myself from the design, right down to sticking the inners into each greeting card by hand and making up the sticker packs from scratch.
Occasionally, someone tells me their story connected to why they are buying a certain card or a particular print, either for themselves or to give to someone dear to them. Suddenly this piece of art, which began as a sketch on my drawing board, has become something unique and special to someone I have never met somewhere in the world. This is just one of the wonderfully unexpected things that has happened as a result of picking up the pencil again and it amazes me every day.
I’m just a tiny shop and might have to wait a wee while for the multi-global domination, but I’m having a total blast and hope that some of my scribbles will give you a little smile.
