And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

So it's been Quite a while since my last blog, But have re-motivated myself and started to feel inspired again.

YCN entry (2)

Hello,

I found out last week that I also got commended for my 20th Century Fox brief entry! I'm ridiculously happy about it. Winners list here : ) 

Also trying out a new blog header let me know what you think.

lots of exciting things!

SO i had my final degree show which was tonnes of fun really had such a good night! lots of people there and everyones work looked amazing.

It was really good to see all our hard work pay off and for so many people to show up.
I was happy all my family made it and that everybody I spoke too was so nice about my work.

book cover illustrations

 

 Final book cover illustrations. To go in end of year portfolio.


I also got them printed as actual notebooks for my final show which is this friday! so excited.

The details for the show are in my previous blog if anybody wishes to attend, there will be an array of individual illustrations as well as group projects, a stall full of prints t-shirts and bags, and also a free glass of wine. 

(watch this space for images of the event) 

Some new project's i've been working on since finishing are card designs for the Tigerprint for Marks and Spencer and also for me to sell in shops. Hopefully.

Degree Show

Well it's come to the end of my degree. What to do now?

Its at the HSAD (hull school of art and design) building at hull college would be

lovely to see lots of people there :-)

Jungle Fever

This is an editorial I created which looked at the beginnings of dangerous virus's being hunted down by the scientists of today (full article from focus magazine) I decided to do my own take on the idea.

Also just as an extra note I have a print in Hull universities Middleton Hall, as part of the masters group exhibition as a guest. Opens this Thursday go down if you fancy a look at some beautiful prints and jewellery :D 

EAT PRAY LOVE

Another Book Jacket for my portfolio.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy screenprints

 

Just a few of the many Hitchhikers  Guide to the Galaxy open screen prints I created.

James and the giant peach competition

Picturing Time

This is a poster I created for a competition called Picturing time, I've been want to get back into more collage and painting and this was the end result.

YCN entry

I decided to go for the planet of the apes 20th century fox brief, I designed a poster for the film and alongside it created a concept for a phone app. Let me know what you think.

Gold Pens!

full version slideshow of live painting at the lamp! It ended up being something really nice to do outside of the studio and was something a bit different :-) I managed to make a few bits and pieces to go on the stall alongside the artwork. thanks also to everyone who came and supported us on the night.

nostalgia

I was looking though some photographs of old work on my p.c and found a picture of a clock that I made on my foundation course. Good times : )

Valentines Day cards for my lovely boyfriend. Also started a Stop animation in another project any tips or stop animations you think I could get inspiration from would be much appreciated. 

This weeks inspiration :-)

doodle by ettalucy

some amazing people:

1. Anna Higgie - who creates beautifully detailed drawings incorporating line,architecture and people. simple and pretty.

2. Andrea Joseph - really nice pen drawings and I like how busy and fun they are to look at. 

3. Mia Pearlman - creates epic paper cuts. 

4. Michelle Thompson  - does really funky, modern collages with mixed media.

5. Scott Bakal - just lots of fun with drawing and paint :-D

experimentation

hello :D so I've been trying to refresh my memory on photoshop with colouring etc and i just did this one quickly from a drawn sketch book page and I thought I'd share.

The Wind Up

Recently  I've been trying to do quick 3-4 day briefs in order to see what I can do in a short period of time. I decided to do a book cover. I just chose a name for it at random, of anything I was thinking about at the time. so I chose a few title's and did some preliminary sketches. This is the final one that I came up with. I ended up quite liking the title so may make it into a short zine.

love match brief

This was a short editorial brief that I did recently. I tried using a bit of Photoshop with hand drawn out lines. there's a few things I want to adapt but this is the almost finished version.

The editorial was basically about different on-line dating sites and what they offered this is my title image.

The first site the article mentions is the beautifulpeople.net so I did a sketch of Brad Pitt and adapted in Photoshop, I'm still a bit of a beginner on Photoshop but I quite liked the out come.

The boat image was simply for a sailing website and was fun to draw.

The next image was created for the vegan/vegetarian on-line forum this one was probably the easiest one to do and the one I liked best at the end. Also really looking forward to the live art show going on at lamp on Thursday in Hull. Hopefully a nice Xmas Blog next week.

jewellery

I've been trying out some different ways of making jewellery. I started by compiling drawing's of things I would like to wear or hang in my house.  I wanted to keep it quite simple. I started by trying to make them out of crystal-clear resin that apparently dries in 24 hours. It does not! So I moved on to scanning in my drawings and making vector files so I could laser cut them and this is how they turned out. I've got to say it was pretty fun using a laser cutter :D