First portrait in 3 years

It's been a while since my last post. I've as always been too busy making clothes to fit in any art. But then a couple of days ago my wonderful boyfriend asked if I would draw him and his friend, so I did. I haven't drawn portraits like these in over 3 years, so it was quite a challenge, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Saturday

This is the first thing I saw when I woke up this morning disgustingly hungover. Not a bad way to start the day!



Today has gone far too slowly. Now, I’m not normally one to complain about time going to slow, if anything I usually wish it would slow down. But when you’re far too tired to function and too reluctant to sleep, it can be quite tedious! Anyway I managed to do some more scanning this evening. Here are a couple of my favourite parts of some old sketches..i really need to get round to doing some new ones.







This is the one I’ve been working on most recently, I need to get on and get it finished. You can't tell because I've cropped it close, but in real life this is about half the size.

Today i had some new photos taken for my clothing company! These are only a couple but i had to re-do a bunch of old ones which i looked pretty terrible in! Okay so i know the first one is a bit sexual for a clothing company but it started off being just a casual shoot for my friend's photography, but then i decided i might aswell use it anyway.



This is one of my favourite jackets that i sell. It's not one of the ones i actually make myself, but oh well i like it anyway. And it's so so soft inside, gorgeous cotton fleece! :)



Oh and i found another biro sketch to show you, i did half of this one sitting in the fields near my dads house and then finished it sitting on the hills overlooking my house. I don't know why i always need to be sitting in the open air in order to do these drawings considering they're not drawn from life. But i guess i just have to get outside in order to feel inspired, considering i spend my entire day (every day) sitting in my room staring at a computer screen!

More Fairies

Right I finally figured out how to use my scanner, so today I can show a few more of my drawings without them looking too crappy. The first one is another really old one, but I quite like her so I thought I might as well show you anyway. I did this one using a standard black ball point pen, which sometimes I like because the contrast between the dark of the pen and the white of the page looks very sharp but it’s pretty difficult getting any other tones with the pen, (although quite a fun challenge!)




This second one is a much more recent drawing, although it isn’t my own design, I drew it from these fairy tarot cards that my mum gave me years ago called “Healing with the Fairies” by Doreen Virtue. As you can see I never really got round to finishing it and I messed up the perspective a bit (a lot) but I enjoyed doing it all the same. I did this one when I first moved to Brighton, the first two weeks of living here I was alone, I had no internet-so no connection with the outside world and I didn’t know a soul who lived anywhere near. Drawing was about all I had to keep me (partially) sane.