Cabbage -.- mehh

Drawing elective stuff. Majorly behind on this, so I did some more work on it today.  Here are a couple of the new ones, there are more but I'll put them on different posts when I can be bothered to take more photos.

Housemate Rosie said that this looked like a cabbage, so I painted it red to make it more obvious that it's meant to be a cotton rose :|

The others from this page are David's hands (thanks for posing again Dave) and a rich tea biscuit in coffee and biro, my new favourite method of drawing (it sounds cool, smells nice and is uber cheap :D).

Drawing food is nice, you have a little reward for when you finish :3

I ♥ BUSES

This was our first assignment this year; choose an issue you want to raise awareness about, and produce 3 matching pieces of work for it.  For mine, I was encouraging people to use public transport rather than driving in Preston (mainly students, though everywhere we really need/can afford to go to is in walking distance really -.-).

So I decided to make themed transport card wallets :) I did a my own version of the bus route map, and put mini venues dotted vaguely along the routes.  To make 3 designs out of it, I printed it out on vinyl, cut it up and made 3 covers for these railcard holders.  Mini (useable ><) versions of the maps are in one of the plastic wallets inside.

By the way, when I scanned this in at the library, I forgot it in the scanner and didn't remember till crit day, six days later :( so if anyone saw a coffee stained, A4-approx map that looks like that, tell me pls. Unless it was in the bin somewhere, that would just make me sad.

Will start putting up random sketches from my elective, since that's pretty much all I have time for workwise now ^^ and am at last settled on hair colour! After trying every possible natural colour, am ironically back to dishwater >< but a bit lighter, with red-violet streak. 

Project Anything-but-work Sunday

It's not at all that I don't like doing drawing for my course, especially when it's as open as 'draw anything human, organic or involving structure' (so basically anything ♥).

But thinking about it all too much makes me jittery, and tbh I've felt out of sorts for a while.  This weekend I felt like doing completely unrelated crafty things with no point whatsoever :)

Firstly, made-up drawing.  Idea taken from when Andrew and I ventured through the gallery in Manchester and saw the most goooorgeous metal sculpture of a ship with a castle on it.  I've been trying to find it on Google but like the tool I am, I forgot to check it's name >< I'll find out someday...it was waaaaaay cooler than my drawing, and probably more loyal to the mechanics of a functioning ship.  Nevermindddd

Baking counts as creative?  At the Quaker House, one of the nice old ladies was giving away baking apples from her garden, and I really don't ever turn down free food.  Was considering apple crumble/cake/pie/muffins but in the end I just made applesauce (no eggs or butter :( ).

My rule of thumb: if it's savoury = lots of oregano. If it's sweet = lots of cinnamon.  There must be half a spice jar on cinnamon in there ><

Sunday afternoon was just me eating cereal on the sofa in front of 'Porco Rosso', then 'Spirited Away', then randomly 'Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events', with the housemates drifting in and out for various parts of the films.  During Spirited, I used leftover enamel paint to ruin this white cappuchino mug with scribbles.  Pretty much rounds up my weirdly comforting weekend.

Have been finding myself increasingly obssessed with Eric Fortune's work.

No words ♥ see more here.

Staffs Vipers Design, and report from the Falcon.

Over summer, I was asked to design a logo for the Staffordshire University paintball team, the Staffs Vipers, by a member on the team who knew me from college. It's always scary to be paid for artwork, in case they don't actually like it -.- but luckily they did, and ended up using my design!

I just got the team photo sent to me:

The ribbon shape under the logo was also done by me (the 'pretzel' shape is the Staffordshire University logo), and the above scale design was used on the shoulder pads :)

Thank you to my commissioner for involving me, and for being so patient when I was struggling with the measurements and practicalities of jersey design '-.- haha

All alright in our new house, aka. the Millenium Falcon (we could all agree on a Star Wars name, though I was personally rooting for 'the Soul Society' from Bleach).  The ceilings are very high, the stairs don't creak and the grill doesn't work.  We have an alley round the side and the door often needs to be body-slammed to open.  I have a fireplace in my room, and we have an attic we haven't dared enter yet. We play catch with the baseball mitt in the living room, make a lot of spring rolls and seem to have hot chocolate rounds every few hours. 

How we're managing to survive in a house of our own is a mystery really, but it's bound to end in flames sometime soon. Nonetheless, we're seriously considering a house rabbit.

That's all really :)

Visiting Dinosaur Cottage

These were done one afternoon, at the residence of these lovely people (from top to bottom: Reece, Sam, Mark, Fran).  They all very graciously agreed to sit for twenty minutes or so so I could draw them, though as it was pointed out, surely drawing from a photo would be more time-effective, and I wouldn't have the trouble of my models moving around...I'm thinking of one of them in particular here :3

As wonderful as they all are personally, in terms of the drawings I think the ones I like most are Reece and Fran.  Although Sam and Mark's turned out okay I don't think they're good likenesses ><

Interrupted Housemates in coffee and biro.

As well as 30 sketches of 'organic' things, we're required to complete 30 sketches of human beings. As extraordinary as they are, my housemates do fall under that category (love you all ^^) so here are the sketches of them, plus my sister when she visited and played honourary housie.

I like it, because they were clearly all just chill, and I ambushed them like the sketching gremlin I am.

If we're pals and I see you in the near future, it may just happen to you, so be warned.  

Or just make it less awkward for me and volunteer your face for half an hour?

Also want to share one of my favourite ever videos.  Spare a while to watch the fabulousness that is this music video for Strawberry Swing :)

 

So apples.

My first word was 'apple'

I love Apple technology

I love apple crumble more

I only like red apples, and more specifically Pink Lady apples

We have to draw organic products for our drawing elective, and this is my drawing of an apple. Yeahhh ^^