You just can't stop me today!

Summer Sun is on it's way!

...it is already lovely and sunny - well it has been these last few days - but I mean more about getting outside to enjoy the summer sun with my friends from back home, now that I have returned from University!

What's that now? - FOUR daily outfit drawing's and now this piece! Although I'm not yet fully caught up on my daily outfit drawings, today has been a very productive day to really pick up the pace again. I'm pretty pleased with most of them... not so much the 3rd June, but I think it's because the figure is too small for the size of the car.

ANYWAYS. This was just a last mess-around piece. I still felt the urge to draw, and thought about going for a different style...more realistic? - well it is in comparison to my daily outfit drawings!

At first I didn't see this going anywhere, and thought I would give up, but I persisted - just like I have been all day - and in the end I'm fairly pleased with the outcome!

This is just a breakdown image. I generally just fill my backgrounds in a solid colour. However, inspired by some more free artwork that I have been looking at lately, I thought about using lines of different gradients of a colour. I think it looks nice, and quite stylish?


Mediums Used: Drawing tablet in photoshop.

Goodbye Lincoln...

...Until we meet again in September!

June 3rd 2013

After only managing to get into bed at 4am after packing through the night, I was exhausted and travelling wasn't great, with long delays.

Mission: Packing Freshers Away

2nd June 2013

I am also on a mission to catch up with all the missed drawings!

And then my time was up. I actually finished my course about a month ago(?) because I only had a group presentation and final assessment, unlike everyone stuck revising and sitting exams!

However, the day before moving out of Courts had finally come, and although I have "started packing" my room away at the beginning of the week... I really hadn't. I did not realise just how much stuff I had crammed into cupboard and boxes and were hiding away until I decided to properly pack. It was just a little bit overwhelming!

The last day as a Fresher was lovely though. Me and my first year church and CU. friends all went out to Ribs 'n' Bibs for lunch, and afterwards we bought frappucino's and sat along the Brayford in the sun. After that I met up with Becca, and we took a picnic up Steep Hill so that we could sit on the grass on just chill out. It was a great end to a great year.

This illustration is a very accurate representation of my evening in Courts; and yes, I did actually have to sit on my suitcase to squash it down - I am never taking that many clothes with me to university again! 

ALL the Birthday Drinks!

1st June 2013

The thing about being at university, is that you have a mahoosive summer break and so, within the space of June-September, you are missing a lot of birthday's. Therefore lot's of people have pre-birthday drinks, and for me, they all seemed to be in the one week, so I was going to birthday drinks left right an centre!
Tonight was Vicky's 21st drinks up at the Magna Carter which was really nice to go up Steep Hill and just be with everyone.

Blue equals Hyper

31st May 2013

This evening was the opening night of the 3rd Year's degree shows. As an illustration student, I got an invite to attend, so a couple of us hang-arounds went together to look around at the standards and see what the degree show was all about. I was looking for inspiration in work, and hints as to the sort of things I'd have to step up and do.
I'm not going to lie though, one of the best things was that as refreshments that had to opportunity to fill up glasses with a variety of pic-n-mix sweets - NOTE TO SELF, sweets are a hit. My favourite were these blue bon-bon-ball-things... they were super yummy, turned my tongue blue, and made me quite hyper!

Snow White used Yum-Yum's to coax out the Wildlife

I am so behind on these 'outfit of the day' drawings! I really just haven't had time because I had been trying to see all my friends in the last few days before we left university for the summer, and then there was a whole day of packing, another for travelling, and another for just settling back home!
Sooooo, this is actually my outfit of the day for 30th May 2013.

Me, Amber and Vicky finally got ourselves to Hartsholme Park! - the weather was all over the board in the last few weeks in Lincoln, raining one day and the next beautiful sunshine. The day didn't start out great, but we decided to go out despite the lack of sunshine...only to get to the park and have it rain on us most of the time we were there... it was still a lot of fun though! - The weather doesn't decide if you have a good time, it's what you make it!

I thought the perfect drawing to sum up the day would not be to have me sopping wet and covered in mud, but in fact demonstrate how silly it is to buy a tub on yum-yum's and take them to a nature park...
We literally had all the wildlife following us around the park, until we decided it would probably be best just to dispose of the troublesome-food. - que stuffing four yum-yum's in our mouths, one after the other - sugar overload!
We were just casually eating a small picnic which consisted mainly of cakes. no judging. when all the ducks and geese came out of the lake and started chasing us. Vicky and Amber ran off to save themselves and I was stuck with the food, so naturally I jumped on the bench?






One of the funniest animal encounters was a squirrel that came up to our feet and stared at us until we threw it a yum-yum, which is then proceeded to eat in a tree above us!

Wedding's are a time for Flowers

Original Sketch

Final with colours

After any exam period of just a general intense period of har-working I have this weird thing where for 2 weeks I get a little bit lost, trying to overcome my lack of sleep and adjust to not having to work 24/7. Therefore when I finished my final assessment for my first year at university I got a bit lost; but then my friends came to the rescue!

I was set the task of helping with the process of my friends wedding invitations. She gave me a collection of photos with the flowers - mainly pink, purple and oranges, with some daisies and whispy white flowers - that she liked and told me she wanted the flowers to form a ring around the writing. 

Obviously the writing in the middle isn't the actual text, but so I could get an idea of the circular shape, I looked at wedding invitations to see what was included.

I had a bit of trouble trying to balance out the colours around the whole ring, to make them work well with each other, and even now that I have finished, I still prefer the sketch alone to the colour image. Typical!

I think if I was to change anything - I find the whole flower wreath quite busy and heavy. It's a thick wreath around the lettering, and I would perhaps make it thinner, to hopefully made it less overpowering.

Mediums used: Drawing tablet in photoshop