Making a banner!

I wanted to change my blog title and the banner for ages! (sorry it's so sudden) So I finally started to get on with it, I showed the process on twitter and got some ideas what to put in my illustration.

How I started...

Added chicken legs...

Requests from

@uberkraaft: A diamond

@MissIllustrator: A book

@mattellero: Some sort of animal- a bird or a fox

are added...

@whisk82: A basket of laundry and a washing machine

@shad_0: Super samurai hamster

are added...

@abigaildaker: A boat or a ship

@lesleybarnes: An eagle

are added...

@iamanoctopus: AN OCTOPUS

@daria_h: A flying chair

@r_hakim: Art nouveau frame

is added...

and I just carried on drawing and this is how it's done!
Now I'm going to polish this off and transform it into a banner somehow. :)

Holly Fulton

I illustrated some Holly Fulton's beautiful dress... for Amelia's magazine! :)

aaaaaand graphical test I did for a job I didn't get... blahhhh

Amazing posts!

Lovely Lesley Barnes sent me this gorgeous card a while back, I love how beautiful the people she draws are! Such a fun card to look at :)

Also, sweet Emma Cowley did an amazing give away and I got so many illustrated treats. :D

I did a feature on her recently on Illustration Rally blog so if you are interested, read here!

(My camera kept thinking this one has a face!)

LSD love + Margaret Howells + A barricade

My blog isn't really catching up with my life, so this "LSD love" is made a month ago for Ian Caulkett's Fantastic Suburbia. I created this from Sarah Remy Lee's lovely poem, LSD love.

This one is Margaret Howell's elegant gown for Amelia's Magazine at London Fashion Week. Every time I tried to record the process of my drawing, I totally forget keeping it up, but you can tell my rough's not really helping my lines from the photo below!lol

and here are more random images from my life...

My handmade barricade!

He forgot to let me know whether he was coming back home or staying out, therefore I had to stay up waiting for him till very late, I was furious!! So of course I had to make a barricade as my protest :)))

My illustration in HUCK Magazine

Wow, it's real! (what I thought firstly) Yes, I did an illustration for amazing HUCK Magazine. I never really drew someone as wrinkly as him before but I think it came out ok, although I don't entirely get why I'm always surrounded by slightly trippy subjects. I can't even drink alcohol, honest.

This is the original!

They are the pom poms!

I love making them, yeah...

Sunshine

Just a quick update here, this is a small illustration I did for my exhibition.

I just love ponchos and massive hats!!

Exhibition + Weezer + Breakfast

So, this is my Weezer for Amelia's Magazine! I never listened to them properly before but River Cuomo is such a photogenic and great fun guy to draw. Apparently, he didn't like Japan for a little bit for some reason (he never said why) and is now married to a Japanese lady... ok, I'm being a detective here :)

I'm now having an exhibition at the T lounge gallery in Norwich as well, this place is so lovely and I blame myself for not coming here when I used to live in Norwich! We will have a reverse private view in October though the date is yet to be confirmed.

Here is my bestest breakfast, I just wanted to show it off because it just looks so tasty. (and it was!)