foundation work . . .

I've recently been going through a load of my Art Foundation work (in the view to throwing most of it away) and I thought I'd post bits from a few of my favourite projects, also because I'm not doing anything new at the moment.

A project that started with us choosing a piece of art or design or architecture that is completely different from our own style. I decided to go for skyscrapers as my work usually tends to be more curved and flowing but straight away shoved a load of colour in there to bring it back to the norm!

 Fashion illustration week which taught me that water colours and layout paper are hateful together.

love a bit of negative space . . .

Acrylic paint and fine liner.

(I think this might have been inspired by a Specsavers advert)

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!

final major project (part 3) . . .

Right, so here is the last of my final major project posts! All the work has been marked and the exhibition has been open for a few days already. I was given a corner space in which to show my work but I was quite worried that I didn't have enough work to fill it as I chose to make a film rather than do photographs, in the end though I think it turned out nicely.

 I combined designing a collection with pretty collaged illustrations.

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.

a sketch a day . . .

Recently I decided to do one fashion illustration or sketch a day to keep my eye in and build up some personal work for my portfolio. I must admit that it has lapsed into a sketch every other day or so and ocasionally I forget for about a week and end up doing 5 or 6 in one everning! Anyway, I'll be posting some of my drawings as I go. 

Quick sketches of Moss's and Esme's dresses made for the fashion show we put on a week or so ago