hello, i had my third review today, and the last one before hand in!! eeek! it went ok apart from some (in my opinion) not very constructive comments. i'm all for constructive criticism, but when it's just a bit pointless then i'm not. anyway that's over now, and i'm happy with my project. one point which was made was to add some more illustrations to my illustration editorial. i did these two tonight. any thoughts on them would be greatly appreciated! i'm pretty happy with them but it's made me realise tonight that i do really love drawing and i guess i wish i had taken that course at uni. i do love fashion, but i also find illustration so interesting and i always seem to be doing it in my spare time.
the jumpsuit is from asos and the swimsuit from american apparel. i am happy with them and i really like the jumpsuit. anyway, i still have plenty of work to do, so i will probably work until about 2.00am. oh the fun. i cannot wait to fly away to korea in june.

xo

I've been neglecting this blog for quite a while, and even more now as I am half way through my Final Major. These are some illustrations I have done recently. They are for an illustration editorial and they will feature in my outcome, which is a magazine. Nearer the hand in, or after, I shall post up some pages from my finished magazine. Right now that seems so long away, but I know I will eventually get it done!

xo

hello,

it has been like a trillion years since i wrote anything. i mainly blog on my tumblr. lately i have been doing my dissertation & stuff. it was ok, but i await my results. i hope i did well! had a long time off over christmas, and finally made it back to uni the monday just gone. there is so much work to do! i have started my FMP, & i have decided to make a magazine/zine full of music, lifestyle, fashion, art. it will be unisex and be really creative. i mainly want to focus on music. i am also going to get my friend Jack Taylor to help me out with illustration. i have my first review on monday & then i get to go home for a few days. we have got a new puppy! & we get her sunday, so i am traveling up monday after my review to see her. i literally cannot wait to see her! i shall take loads of pictures & post them on here.

i am a bit unsure on how i want my final zine/magazine to look, but i'm pretty sure i want it to look really creative and different. i think i want it a5, as most zines are that size and mine will have a bit more of a magazine look to it instead of just rough like a zine. i want elements of a zine though. i think i want lots of different paper used too. like on some pages it will be card, some tracing paper and some just normal. i haven't really seen anything like this so i hope it will work. i am also wanting mine to be really different, which is what we need to make sure we do. we obviously need to have a market for what we want to create & i think there is one for my idea. yes there are lots of magazines out there for music, but mainly mainstream music. it seems unsigned bands need to create the hype for themselves and information on them can only be found on websites etc... i guess a lot of them don't care about not being in kerrang etc... but i think it would be nice to have a little magazine dedicated to this kinda stuff for the audience it is aimed at.

these two images are from here. i think they are really good, i love illustration & want to combine work like this with lots of writing within my fmp zine.

i might start doing some drawings now and experiment. i have tomorrow off work & really want to do something tonight but loads of people are busy :( boooo.

xo

when i went back home, i looked through drawers under my bed & found loads of sketchbooks from uni & college, when i did fashion design. i love putting together sketchbooks & i loved finding these. i keep them all cause it's nice to look back through old work & get inspiration + they also took me a long time to do so i'm not just going to throw them out! ha.

i'm so stressed out at the moment. i will write about it all soon. to keep my mind off it, i am looking at pretty pictures & cute baby animals. hopefully if Marcus doesn't get back from recording too late, then we are going to go out. i need to get drunk & have some fun!

oh & i am so happy about the World Cup result. well done Spain!

xo