Quotes Book Collage

I'm so bad at posting stuff arrgh, here's the quotes book image I did a while ago. The quote is “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” Chinese Proverb. It's a mixture of watercolour pencil and collage. looking at it now there is so much I want to change but I really like the colour palette and way the background interacts with shading of the birds. I really want to do another piece with just birds against the background, maybe something decorative.

Not long till I go off to New York with my portfolio and at the moment it is looking pretty empty, need to hurry up and crank out some serious artwork over the next few weeks. Wish me luck...I'm going to need it.

Last Term

These are some illustrations from last term. I used graphite for this piece, drawing the portrait and frame separately and then adding them together on Photoshop.

For this one I used fine liner. I was definitely a bit scared of using colour which is pretty evident, so this term I'm going to really push that. I was inspired by fashion and love drawing women (sorry men, but they are prettier). Maybe I'll practice drawing men too as my challenge.

The next project I'm working on is for our yearly quotes book that the university produces to showcase the third years' work to businesses and possibly future clients. Yay! The image I produce needs to represent me as an illustrator and show off what I can do so this is a pretty big deal. Eek.

I'll post some of my ideas and thumbnail drawings, as this project progresses.

Hello internet!

Why is the first blog post so hard? I've wanted to write a blog for years now but never knew how to start it or who on earth would actually read it. But then I thought- I read this kind of stuff online all the time, spending hours trawling through other people's blogs for inspiration for my own work.

This is my little place on the internet where I can share my experiences as a student and freelance illustrator. I think having this will push me to generate work faster so I have something to share, I will have a new responsibility to my millions of dedicated followers who of course can't wait to see my latest illustration! Oh dear.

Anyway, here goes (even if I am the only person reading this)