Here you’ll find an assortment of my works that showcase a variety of different styles and techniques. I’m passionate about the process and struggle of becoming a professional illustrator. I love learning new things and sharing my experiences with others. Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog! All of my drawings are created in Adobe Photoshop™ and/or Adobe Illustrator™ unless otherwise stated. Enjoy!

Trevor Henderson is a professional illustrator living in London, England. He has worked on a variety of projects from advertising to book covers. 

You will be able to find everything you need on how I work, my process and struggles as a professional illustrator. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

All the images shown here are my own work, unless stated otherwise

I have always wanted to become a professional illustrator, ever since I was a kid. When I was in high school, I would draw anything and everything (as long as it wasn’t schoolwork). I would draw all my friends and teachers, mostly without their knowledge. At some point, I decided that my drawings were good enough to be published and began to submit them to magazines. Most of them were rejected, but occasionally one would be accepted.

Drawn to the image of the rich and famous artist with a studio full of assistants, I dreamed about someday being that kind of successful artist. So even though my early submissions had been rejected, I kept submitting them to magazines for years afterwards.

I thought about going to art school for a short time when I was in college but decided against it because it seemed like more schooling would just delay me from becoming successful. So instead I decided to get a job and support myself while practicing art on the side until my work was good enough that people would pay me for it.

Despite putting in many hours of drawing every day, this did not happen right away. It took years before any magazine would pay me for my work. In fact, the first magazine that paid me didn’t do so until after almost 10 years

I do sometimes wonder where all the time goes. I’m not sure what I’m most grateful for, but I’ll tell you one thing: I appreciate every single moment of free time that isn’t spent sleeping.

This is my first entry in a while, and it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, really. It’s not that I’m slacking off – far from it! While it might be easy to interpret this lull in posting as a sign of laziness or procrastination, it’s really just the opposite: I’ve been working hard on the illustration commissions that have been coming my way.

I’m still doing my daily drawing practice, which is rewarding and fun, but it’s also useful in a practical sense because it gives me plenty of material to work with when illustrating a given scene. This is especially important for any client-commissioned work that involves storytelling; narrative illustration has its own set of rules and expectations, and being able to draw from personal experience means being able to draw from something you actually know about.*

That said, there are some things that must be learned by observation and practice. Some of these things can be taught (though sadly, not many). And some are learned through a combination of observation, practice

Trevor Henderson is an illustrator based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as a freelance artist for many years and is currently working on two children’s books, a graphic novel and his second solo art show.

Trevor’s other interests include playing the guitar and traveling. He loves to draw portraits, animals and architecture. His website contains a selection of his work along with helpful tips for those interested in pursuing a career in illustration.

What is art?

Is it paintings, sculpture, poetry, music? Or is it simply everything? Does the definition of art change throughout history? Can a thing be beautiful without being art?

Art is defined as “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.” When we look at a work of art, how much of it should be credited to the process behind it and how much should be credited to the imagination that created it? Art is an expression of an idea. A lot of people have contributed to its production. The artist himself may have had a rough time with the piece, but when he presents it to us we feel something. We feel what he was trying to show us. When you see a piece of art you don’t see all the different things that went into creating that object. You don’t see all the labor and effort that went into shaping it. All you see is a final product. Art can be defined as one thing: A representation made by a person or people in an attempt to fully express themselves or their feelings through a medium they are most comfortable with. As humans we are always changing and growing whether we like it or not and this applies to artists as well. Art is never finished; It can only be abandoned. Artists

As I’ve worked on the blog for a year now, I’ve noticed that I tend to write about the same things over and over again. This post is an attempt to collect all of my thoughts on these topics in one place.

I love you. I’m sorry. I’m not going to do it again.