I am not ashamed to say that I love a bit of stationery.

Today I started getting my act together and gathered all the arty bits and bobs I think I might need at university -which is really quite close now- and this is what they looked like.

 I admit I didn't necessarily need to line it all up like this but I am a master of procrastination!

When I did finally do something useful it was to carry on drawing designs that are being screen printed on bags and t-shirts, more on these can be found on our Vacant Echo facebook page and lookbook

plus I'll probably do a more comprehensive post on here soon.

a sketch a day backlog . . . .

 felt-tip pen.

pencil.

a sketch a day backlog . . .

I started my 'a sketch a day' project way back when I was getting my portfolio ready for interviews but since getting a place at Westminster and what with all the hassle of the final major project . . . Well, lets just say that I let it slip. I've just realised that I hardly uploaded any of the drawings from that project so I'll keep posting them.

Here are a few of my favourite fashion illustrations:

All illustrations done in pencil, black fineliner and water colour.

galaxy t-shirts . . .

There has been a recent trend for galaxy print clothing and as most of it is extortionatelyly priced, we  -that's I, my sister and Damien- have decided to make and sell our own. We've named our clothing company and Vacant Echo and our galaxy t-shirts will hopefully go on sale sometime next week.

Colette and Damien spledidly modelling our red and blue galaxy t-shirts

I was a bit bored this morning and did what started out as a doodle and tuned into quite a nice little illustration.

I'm really not sure why but I have a disproportionate amount of trouble drawing feet and shoes -they make me so mad!

lovely little creatures . . .

Here are a few little drawings of mine, I can just draw animals for hours on end and now that college is pretty much finished I can sketch away to my heart's content.



I am thinking of using these drawings as screen printing designs for bags and t-shirts.

insects. . .

A few drawings I did for Phoebe's birthday (or maybe Christmas) present.

final major project (part 2) . . .

Just a little update on the current project.

a sketch a day continues . . .

Have been experimenting more and more with extreme shadow lately, I love being able to draw a face using only large patches of black and only minimal deatail or shading.

oh so many flowers . . .

How is it that we go for months without any flowers in the house and then 5 bunches come along at once? I love having flowers in the house, it makes up for the sad lack of vegetation outside.

 Last week we had a flower project so the class room was full of an asortment of blooms, it looked and smelt the nicest it has ever been, that is, it did untill most of the flowers started to wilt and die which was sad.
On Friday afternoon Julia and I spent a happy ten minutes ransacking the girls' desks for abandoned flowers that were still alive, the result was the eclectic last bunch in the yellow vase.

Bellow are a few drawings and designs from the project, I loved it (though I think I was in the minority there); uneven splodges and drips of water colour and thin continuous line drawings are just my thing.

Not entirely sure where my fashion designs, developed from the flower drawings are going but they'll be floaty and layered and brightly coloured whatever the are!