more berlitz sketches. sorry for the poor quality

Work in progress

Anthony loves Adventures

Been playing around with ideas for the character of the adventure book. Came up with this little fella, i.e Anthony! The book is about a small child who loves adventures, something children can relate to. I wanted a cheeky look, and i'm keeping my images quite loose and playful as i'm new to the ol' characters. So i'm sticking to pastels, coloursoft pencils and watercolours, with a dash of photoshop. A nice combo I think!

Adevntures

In the process of developing images for the Childrens picture book story i am working on for a summer project. Proving harder than i thought!

Sweet tooth

Made these beauties today for my new room at uni. can't wait to move in now :)

Jeffrey Campbell

my GOSH his shoes are to die for. I wish there was a shop in the UK :'(

Belated Berlin

Some single/double exposed photos taken on my Diana F+ whilst in Berlin

Not all of them turned out quite so well, a lot didn't develop at all as i'd obviously taken them with not enough light present :/ but had a play around with photoshop and layering with two of them (shown below) quite like the outcome. spacey.

fa-shon

playing around with photoshop

practising my fashion illustration skills

Russell Leng

This guy is my new fave at the moment. His shapes and colours are gorgeous.

Check it out

Tossa De Mar

Pub notes

All of these words and all of these pictures...

My lovely boyfriend bought me this gorgeous Rob Ryan notebook for my birthday. I love his intricate pattern cutting and i will always be a fan of his work

100th post!

And for it i will adorn you with more wonderful pubs :) I've been a busy bee! I also went for a shit-pub crawl with my parents and their friends at the weekend, got a lot of interesting information, sketches, and photos. Will upload images of what i gathered next! (bare in mind i ws having a drink in each pub, so the concentration to detail and why i was actually doing the pub crawl kind of went out the window towards the end) Had loads of fun though and i'm going to do it again next weekend to get more information from the pubs i didnt make it to/ didnt get much from.

Rugby Pubs and treats along the way

Rugby Pub Crawl

SO after a lot of procrastination i have finally started my Summer Live project for Berlitz. We have to come up of a way of creating a hybrid of language and travel based on a place of choice, to make the perfect travellers guide. I have chosen my lovely home town of (D)Rugby. To begin with i felt so uninspired as i don't feel like anyone would want to come here on there travels but i went on a gander with my mum today and we noticed just how many pubs there are in Rugby. My mum says that a long time ago we were known to be the town with the most pubs per square metre or something ridiculous like that. So i thought, what better thing to do than design a travellers pub crawl around Rugby! I'm going to map out the pubs, go to each one and listen to the local language, observe the local punters, and then put together a sort of walk for a traveller to enjoy. From pub to pub i will pick out local beauty from the old buildings to the smiles from the market for a traveller to absorb and HOPEFULLY create something innovative and inspiring. Heres my first illy of the good ol' Prince of Wales. Yummy...

Wedding Bells

I have just completed this for my friends Beck and Jim (of whom i did a portrait of for Becks birthday) to give to Jim's sister as a wedding present. It took me a fair while as i kept coming back to it but i am pleased with the result. I chose a light background of pastel pink and tealy blue to match the colours they are having for their wedding, and i also put a rose in her hair as they are the flowers she will be having. Completed with a mechanical pencil and ProMarkers.

Space n ting

I came accross a picture of a model on tumblr, and I had a real urge to draw her. So I did. I usually get that with figures/faces, I get this massive urge to DRAW them.

need to get crackin'

Due to the immense amount of collage i was doing for my fmp, it meant missing out on practicing my drawing for a while. Needed to get my creative juices flowing for the two summer projects we've been give to decided to kick off with a drawing for of my friend Lucy, and a birthday card for Tash. Not much but feels good to be drawing again.