Illustration Friday Illustration Friday is a quick fire weekly competition where the brief is simply to illustrate a different word each week. You make your image then upload it to the website every Friday and a winner is picked. I enjoyed the fast nature of this process and the none serious tone as in enabled me to produce a lot of varied outcomes, and later combine the competition with my own personal project of sketch-booking. I used Illustration Friday to experiment and motivate me to just draw spontaneously, with quicker creative thinking. The first word I illustrated was ‘spider’ and I decided to explore character design because it’s something I like doing in my practice. I created these three spiders and played around with different scenarios I could use them in. The candy-floss spider image is the illustration I submitted, but looking back I’m more fond of them as spot illustrations.