Coming Soon

To the casual observer I have not been uploading as much as I should these past few weeks. Well this is all because I had a very bright idea, why be restricted by the small page of an A3 paper when I could be working on A2? Well it took a while to click, that there is no A2 scanner in uni, or indeed London/the world, so I will be booking the photography studio in order to edit these images for my book. Good times. So once they are done, they will be uploaded for your viewing pleasure, until then, I'l just be uploading any little pointless sketches. Be well.

Cheekiness

I really haven't updated in a good while. So I'm uploading everything from the past few weeks in all there unorganised glory. First of lets start with some cheekiness, which involved me replacing many wonderful fashion editorials, with my own illustration for my professional practice module in an effort to make my illustration look real and like it might actually belong in the real world. Fingers crossed! Editorials/articles and the odd cover taken from Lula Mag, Dazed and Confused, Elle magazine etc. Let me know what you think.

Part II

A couple more original sketches and a few edited ones. Starting to try and get this book done and wrapped up!

The Finals Part I

Well I feel I should upload the rest of my completed images now I've finished creating the book (just the small issue of actually finding somewhere to print it out now!) and also I've got very paranoid that now I've finished my untrustworthy technology will find a way of wiping all my work just days from the hand in. So I'm uploading it onto the trusty interweb, so I'l know where to find it forever...... So these are ones that I've changed or one's I haven't uploaded before, part one: The Tribe......

Flowers and other themes.

Here's a bit of a jumble of themes, Underwater, Floral and then a few just general images which will probably also find their way into the book! Let me know what you think...

The Tribe

Well I did try to put all the themes in one post but it got very confusing, so I'm dedicating a post per theme/collection of drawings. So bear in mind these are initial drawings hot from the scanner and have yet to be jazzed up with backgrounds and other things to make them more exciting, but please let me know what you think. The theme I've developed furthest will be my first 'Chapter' of my book entitled 'The Tribe' inspired by Henry Holland's Pocahontas-esque dresses.

New Beginnings..

So now its time to show you all the workings of my new project.When we were given another 'write your own brief project' I knew exactly where to start. In my final year the with the penultimate project, I decided to be a bit self indulgent, and I set myself the brief of creating a fashion lookbook, showcasing my illustration. I also want to develop how to best advertise garments, so I decided drawing inspiration from London Fashion Week 2011, I chose garments that I wanted to draw, some were challenging some were just a bit self indulgent. So designers such as Henry Holland, Matthew Williamson and Sass and Bide are now my inspirations. So like with photoshoots, I decided the best way to develop my drawings would be to create themes, inspired by the trends of LFW, so Henry Holland's fringing set up my tribal theme and Julien Mcdonald's floaty dresses inspired an under water theme, more detail to come on my themes once I have developed them further. But these are some sketches I did at the beginning (apologies for the lack of cropping) more to come.....

Long Overdue

Well this is a hugely overdue post, in what's been the end of a turbulent summer, I'l explain it all in a bit but firstly let me finally(!) post more of my summer work up. After educating myself on overpopulation, I spent a while trying to work out the best way to represent it through my drawing, I decided rather then drawing the obvious (lots of people) I wanted to draw the effect overpopulation has on the earth. And it's bleak, a solitary derelict wasteland with used up resources. So I began to draw what resembles a post apocalyptic landscape. These are my experimentations.

Overpopulation, an introduction.

Well it's been long, long overdue, but I finally got a camera and I have been taking pictures of my summer project to finally put online. We had to pick a political/cultural/enviromental issue to illustrate, and after initial research, into several issues I felt passionately about, I realised they all lay under the umbrella of one dark problem, that no one wants to face. Overpopulation of the planet. The media is more then willing to cover climate change, global warming, poverty, depleting resources and war, and yet they fail to tackle the biggest monster of them all, the fact we are breeding far too much. By 2050, experts project an estimated global population of 9.1 billion. To sustain such a population we would need 4 earths worth of resources, unfortunately, we only have one. The population problem is spiralling out of control, with little to help halt it, the figures are scary, and effective action seems impossible, in countries where birthrate is monitered (China) are faced with an ageing population and in developing countries where Religion prevents access to proper family planning, birthrates increase. (Phew, rant over!) But its not all doom and gloom, I'l be posting my research into possible preventions and solutions shortly.

Global warming, needs no introduction, the use of the earths resources to keep up with the demand of an ever increasing population has already begun manifested itself into extreme and unusual weather and floods worldwide, here's a few images I've done so far on the topic....

Untitled.

Here is the rest of my untitled work, we have a mixture of designers here, Ellie Saab, Versace and some inspiration from Numero, possibly my favourite fashion mag. Anyway out of 2 sketchbooks these are the ones I most wanted to show. But hopefully I'l come round and like a few more of my sketches, they just need some tweaking. In the meantime I'l keep on drawing. Any comments welcome. In other news, this year was the best Glastonbury yet, I did a lot of filming and may be uploading a little edited video in the near future. This years highlights were The Black Keys, Stevie of course, and the sunshine! Peace and love to you all...