Welcome to Forbidden Whispers..

The home for the artwork of Anna Bird and Michael Self who jointly run Forbidden Whispers Design. Feel free to browse over the site and if you have any queries or questions then please don't hesitate to contact us. We hope you enjoy your stay.

UPDATES

July 31st 2008 18.40

Well we completely forgot about this site, what with the success of the publishing company we set up and other commitments. Just to let you all know we do intend to redesign this site and update all the galleries with our recent works. We do apologies for lack of updates and many of the broken links that were present on the site.

Talk to you all soon,

Mike and Anna

 

August 5th 2007 15.54

Hi everyone, we just wanted to come by with a little update. Anna has been working on her gallery and has added a photography section consisting of five angel photos taken with her camera. Each photograph has links to prints that are available. We hope to find the time to do this with all pictures in the gallery asap. Until then if you feel free to explore those photos and the prints available.

Talk to you all soon,

Mike and Anna

 

July 14th 2007 9:36

Hello everyone. It's been a long time since we updated this page and we wanted to fill you in on new developments. The magazines are doing very well. With the Forth Issue of SNAP Magazine due to be released this Sunday and the newest Issue of Forbidden Whispers Magazine underway we can only hope for great things.

In other news Anna has left poser far behind and started on her new journey of exploring 2D art. She's been working in purely painter and photoshop without the aid of 3D renders. She's slowly making progress and hopes to keep improving. She may sneak back to poser periodically but only for cover works. If you would like to see some of her 2D works and purchasable prints, you can view them at hers and Mike's deviantart page here

Anna has also started working for ClubLightHousePublishing.com as one of their cover artists. You can see her first cover on their website. Hopefully we'll be adding it here once we find time to update the website with our newest works.

Finally next Tuesday Anna has an audience with Kirkleathem Museum in Redcar in the UK. They are wanting to possibly showcase some of her work in an exhibition. Wish her luck!

What are the plans for the future? Well firstly we want to possibly revamp this website. Give it a smart new look and update our galleries with our most recent works and generally keep on top of things.

We'll keep you all updated.

Mike and Anna

 

14 February 2007 12:00

We apologies for the lacks of updates recently, as we have been very busy with the publishing side of work together. We will be redesigning this website very soon which we hope will provide a much more pleasing experience and we will have a whole load of new work to put on display also.

If you are interested in any of our work, or want to commission us for any pieces please don't hesitate to contact us.

We'll keep you posted on the progress of the new site soon.

Mike and Anna

12 October 2006 12:00

Been so busy beginning compiling the second issue of the magazine, we've hardly had time to work on much else. Anna has a few new images which will be added to the site soon. We'd also like to point out that the magazine now runs on it's own website independently from this one.

Speaking of the magazine, now well over 3000+copies have been downloaded.So thank you to all of you that have helped us achieve this milestone.

Mike and Anna

04 October 2006 20:00

Some updates added to the magazine site with details on the second issue of the magazine. The first issue has been a massive success so far as we have had well over 1600 copies of the magazine downloaded so far and more being downloaded daily.

Submissions are coming in slowly for the second issue so if you haven't already done so or thought about doing so now's your time to.

No new artworks from either of us both yet, but Anna is working on something at the moment so watch for that one won't you.

Mike and Anna

29th September 2006 19:00

Well where do we start!

The magazine has been such a success! We could have never imagined it would take off the way it has done. So far we have had 593 copies downloaded from the website, which last night resulted in the server going down temporarily as we transferred over 1.5gig of traffic in the space of 24 hours *ouch* Pleased to say that the server is back up and working properly again now.

We have also put up a link for the printed version of the magazine which you can purchase now through lulu.com who will be publishing and printing the magazine.

So what's next then? Well issue 2 of course! We want to make the next issue even bigger and better so we want all of you! artists and writers alike to submit your work for the next issue. Submission guidelines and details of the next issue can be found via the magazine link on the site.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you that took part in the first issue, and hope you continue to submit to the future issues

Mike and Anna