Dancing At Angles.

A few months ago, I was asked to pair up with a music event/night that happens every month in Norwich. I was asked to be the designer of the flyers for each night (every first friday of the month). This was very exciting for me as I have never had a chance to get together and create something (and so freely!). Each month so far I have come up with a completely different design idea for the flyers. I am also required to create the back of the flyer, this contains a quote for the month which is given to me by the promoter, address and details of the venue and a few links to pages at the bottom. Here are images of the flyers I have created so far, I'm looking forward to the coming months of flyer making, seeing what ideas I come up with and building a small portfolio.

Flyer 1, Front.

Flyer 1, Back.

Flyer 2, Front.

Flyer 2, Back.

Flyer 3, Front.

Flyer 3, Back.

Cactus Embroidered Tote Bag.

These photos show what is my second hand embroidered tote bag. I am a lot more pleased with the outcome of this bag, I feel it looks very clean and precise to how I had it planned. This bag was a lot more simple, it was a lot easier just to embroider sticking to one colour, I could continue to sew without having to change the colour for the next section. 

Tote Bag as a Whole.

Back Typography Detail.

Early 20th Birthday.

On Friday I received this beautiful printing press in the post as an early 20th birthday present from my Dad. It's just a tad smaller than A3 but its perfect for what I will be using it for. Need to stock up on lino and polypropylene for making all the pretty prints! Will be looking into buying some plain tote bags to lino print onto in the near future too! 

In the last picture you can see the first etching I made using this press, so pleased with the result! 

Printing press, top view.

Printing press, side view.

First etching from my printing press.

Birthday Card.

It was my dads birthday the other week and I made him this A5 drawing and popped it on a plain card. Cards are boring and drawings you can take off the front are fun. 

Hannya: The Hannya mask portrays the souls of women who have become demons due to obsession or jealousy.

Hannya mask A5 drawing.

Photoshop Illustration.

A few weeks back I found my graphics tablet which I had completely forgotten about. Now I have a whole bunch of free time during my uni summer break I thought it would be a great chance to get myself doing the things I used to love and haven't done in a very long time. I did a set of three potted plant drawings, a cactus, an aloe vera, and a venus fly trap. These were all similar in colour and style (including being drawn into the same style pot).

You can buy these illustrations as separate A4 prints or as a set of 3 A5 here.

Venus Flytrap.

Cactus.

Aloe Vera.

Sketchbooking.

This is the first update on the progression of my work during the summer. Here are a few things I've been doing this week in my newly made sketchbooks. 

Mixed Media Houses.

Dripping Ink Skull.

Skull and Daisy.

Mixed Media Block of Houses.

Mixed Media Colour Leaves.

Mixed Media Coloured Leaves.

Mixed Media Cacti.

Pencil on Black Paper Whale.

Two Tone Ink Drawing of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tracing Paper Removable Sunglasses.

Wax Crayon and Ink Yoda.

Wax Crayon, Ink and Pencil Bikes. 

Photoshop.

After completing all of my university work early, I've been playing about with photoshop and my tablet. I took a carbon paper drawing and added some splashes of colour to make it a little more interesting. Now I've finished my first year of university, I'm going to try to keep up to at least one illustration a day. Hopefully this summer will be the start of portfolio building. 

Carbon Paper, Photoshop Edit.

Portfolio Contents Page.

I've just made myself a quick, A3 piece to go inside the front cover sleeve of my portfolio. Rather than sticking to a general plain A3 piece of paper with text, I thought I would add some detail just to make my portfolio me attractive. I added part of an illustration from the inside of the portfolio and repeated it underneath the text. 

Portfolio Contents.

Zine pieces.

I was asked a few weeks ago to contribute two pieces to a zine. There was no theme, only that it would be printed A5 and black and white. I went with something I haven't done too much, but would like to get better at, small precise pieces of work in a Tibetan style. Here are the two pieces I made, may be up for sale as small prints soon.

Dotwork flower.

Dotwork tiger.

Original ink paintings.

Today I was ill and in bed, so spent my day creating 12 new pretty original ink paintings to go up for sale on my Etsy online store. You can buy these new pieces here!

A6 Axe Original.

A5 Double Headed Cat Original.

A5 Skull/Lady Original.

A5 Hand Original.

A5 Heart And Eye Original.

A5 Anatomic Heart Original.

A5 Lantern Original.

A5 Messy Mandala Original.

A5 Messy Mandala Original.

A6 Rope Heart Original.

A6 Geometric Shape Original.

A5 Geometric Shape Original.

Love Heart Snake.

I have found myself comin up with ideas more, little ideas that I will write down and make into something special, like this love wart snake. The idea popped into my head on a random evening watching the TV. I was asked to make Sonny something new and thought this was the best idea to go with. I am really with how this piece turned out, just from a simple idea in my head. 

A5 Original Paintings.

I have recently sold quite a few of my A6 original paintings from my etsy store, so I thought I'd up my game and make some more detailed A5 originals. These are done on the same quality papers (recycled, cotton rag, 150gsm, acid free), just larger. Here are some examples of the first few. You can order these here.

A5 Panther Original.

A5 Cat Skull Original.

A5 Bird Skull Original.

New A6 Original Paintings.

Last week I made 6 more A6 original ink paintings, these are all hand painted and shaded with black acrylic ink, and are on 150gsm, white, recycled cotton rag, acid free paper. These are all available to buy on my etsy store here.

Bear Skin.

Fish.

Pointing Hand.

Moon And Mountians.

Teeth. SOLD.

Fern Leaf.