Cloud watching part 2

This was actually based on a cloud as well, but I did this today from one of the really really quick skteches I did from the day of watching clouds, this is more of the one I've spent time on. (Again this is probably in my sub conscious because I think it was last year I had monkey portrait calender, one of them is now stuck on my wall foreveeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr haha)    So I present Ambrose the cycling gorilla!  

Cloud watching

This is actually a result of cloud watching and probably my obbession of visiting dinosaur skeletons in the natural history musuem in London, nearly every time when I went when I was younger.

Last week when we had some okay weather in England ( yes I know its rare even August, the summer's not normally this bad haha)
I actually went outside and took my sketchbook to do the "childish" thing and imagine what the clouds really were. This is the result of that, its a little strange but I like it, sometimes it nice to look at the bones and structure underneath rather than what sits on top. :D

Homemade Gifts

 This is a purse I made for my friend's birthday, with any luck she won't look at this blog this week or at least until she gets it. It's the first item I've sewn properly from a pattern that I made from card. My sewing skills aren't quite up to scratch as I like, but nevertheless I'm proud of it and it seems like a nicer gift to give rather than going and buying something for them.

Messing around

A little messing around in illustrator from last night, trying to practice the bezier curve, although I don't think I've even used it in these. I shall post the inspiration on my tumblr and inspire galore. 

Just a little bit of fun, and I can stick them into my little note book as I'm starting to take notes again, hooray easing back into studying, never a joyous task to do haha.  http://littlemonsterslaugh.tumblr.com/

Inspiregalore

I said I would do a new blog for inspiration and I have ....http://inspiregalore.blogspot.co.uk/  .... see did you you click the link to see that I wasn't fibbing? Haha, just forgot to link it up. I have done one piece since this, but its another lion, you see I'm designing a pack of cards as my friend actually taught me a load of games, although it was 3am in the morning so I can't really remember anything other than losing... alot, Irish slam, go fish ( such an easy good game for 2am) and somehow we ended up playing mal, which was bit tricky to get my head around at 3am ...  and I decided to make the king of hearts and lion, because of something to do with braveheart, I think I was tired when I found the excuse of doing this as well haha. 

Odds and things

I've been a little busy doing I have no idea what but I thought I'd just post a few things I've been up to. Other than the huge addiction to pinterest.com and craftgawker and etsy...

Right last week I did a few lions that I copied from a very pretty photo off of bing, ( the lion is now happily purring away in my sketchbook, I think there two in there now :) It was something that I enjoyed doing and reminded me of the days of watching the lion king on repeat.

 I made a pacman banner. No you didn't imagine it, I really did make one. I got the idea from minieco http://www.minieco.co.uk/pacman-halloween-garland/ from her Halloween  garland of silhouettes which does look quite cool, and  you should check it out AND she also has the template there for it hence the beautiful right shapes that would have taken me forever as it looks like a simple task, and sod's law isn't on my side ever. I wanted to mine with colour though, as its summer and I just like colours it was actually hanging in the gazebo outside. 

 You see this is from well the remaining pieces of the pacman banner, randomly stuck down I say random, I really mean carefully places haha. Just so I didn't have to bin the shapes of coloured paper again, it was quite therapeutic. Although it probably looks like a mess, it was a good way to freely experiment with my fineliners again, yes I know I keep mentioning them but I like them... lots in case yous can't tell haha. I may actually keep going on this as it doesn't feel quite finished to me yet, but saying that I will probably over do it a tad and ruin it, we will see I suppose. 


If only I could find a way to deck my room out in these colours, it would be great haha. 

 Then there's Pablo the penguin. He is the accident of trying to make an octopus which I did make, then very promptly deleted. I just couldn't do the cute octopus I wanted and then somehow this little penguin was born. I'm fairly certain is has something to do with watching the film happy feet, something about penguins dancing really sank into my subconscious. Its a little abstract and Pablo just seemed to fit well, yes I know I've done the childish thing and named the animal with a P starting name for P starting animal haha. Anyway that's four what  I hope are lovely things in one post, hoorah. 


Ooh and it was one year yesterday since I started my fanfiction and its sill going *cheers* happy days! 

New Blog on its way!

I've decided that I'm going to post a blog just of inspiration. Books, music, sculptures, design, papertoys, products, stationary,photography, landscapes, other sketchbooks, videos, animation, stop motion, places, artists, textiles and communities (this does make sense honestly)  !! The idea is to share and record what I find inspiring and to see how it effects and what impacts that it may have in my future work! The more I rant about the more I can feel myself smiling haha. Big smiles and see you later!!

Graphite heart

There isn't a great detail that I can really tell you about this. Except that I missed using a graphite stick and it makes a nice change.

That castle challenge

I know its not finiahed but its a work in progress, it could turn out well perhaps.

triangles

I've been experimenting with my watercolours and fineliners, anf forgot how much I missed working with a craft knife and paper, ok its not much but it was good practise for me to make cleaner cuts, and smaller triangles. Now wants to tell me how many triangles they can see? haha

I really want to put the link of james blunt singing my triangle from youtube. I miss the humour of my old maths teacher.

random

egyptian thing... challenged by a friend , one day i will finish my own challenge and post the german castle

house on a hill

playing aroud again with watercolours and fineliners.

It was ....

Playing around with a waterbrush...one little doodle, and the other is the doodle from gandy street the other day

Inner gremlin

Theres a theroy that I recently read about onner gremlins and that each one of us has a living breathing gremlin inbedded in our brain. It constantly dimishes our self esteem and confidance, yes its a big mean nasty bully haha. I read that drawing or write it down, so you can visualise it, so you can tell it to shut its trap! So here is mine, except theres one problem... I rather like him, so I guess hes more the opposite sooo i shall have to try again, but it was fun trying to make somethibg ugly but then to find the results endearing and cute. C'est la vie.

Drawing Gandy street

Just playing around ( I say playing as if it took me under five minutes, that's not true it took me over 45 mins, perhaps an hour I wasn't really watching the time) with some new fineliners I bought. Well you see the thing s, I bought a few liked them, but then they faded and well it turns out that they didn't like watercolours either... but on these pens its actually written across the side of the pen"water and fade proof, pigment ink" so I shall see.

This would be the beautiful Gandy street, most known for its fantastic independent (yet some of these are more south west chain shops now, but some aren't ) shops and for being the inspiration behind THE  Diagon Alley, yes the street in Harry Potter!!  

It's not a great drawing, but it's practice which I need to do clearly :D I kinda took a photograph at angle, and for some werid reason that was entirely subconscious that I would draw as if it had been taken from a "normalish" angle, hence everything's everywhere.

p.s. In case that you're wondering all those delightful scribbles that are in the bottom half of the drawing are ivy, its pretty dense, should have drawn more... maybe I will go over in watercolour... rambling thoughts continue.

ATLAS and beyond!!!

I'm starting a new personal project called atlas, I was going to enter the sktechbook project ( Yes, I know I've mentioned this before and said that  I would enter)  this year but it just hasn't happened yet, so instead I looked at their list and saw that they had a project called atlas.

Below is what I've done today  as a cover for my little sketchbook, sadly none of the imagery used to create this is mine, esstentially it's a collage of stuff I've collected and found browsing the internet. Now thinking about it, I proabably have all my own imagery that I could have used to make this ... like the space scene, that seems so long ago and the key I recently did... oh well. I did debate earlier whether or not draw up my own map, then I came across this one and it just stayed. But  I really actually will draw up my own map and use that instead, eventually, however this could take a few weeks and I wanted to see what it would look like with a well drawn map, not some of rushed thrown together drawings, and I proabably will repost this then.

(NONE of the imagery is mine :(  sorry just though I'd throw in an extra repeat disclaimer, I really need to check copywrite rights etc.)

Drawing again

I came across a photograph of a key today whilst surfing pinterest, and well here's the result. Sorry about the picture quality, it's just I'm not sure where I've left my camera.

Drawing in my Garden

Well you can probably tell that it's not still life I've been drawing from my garden today! These were copied from a calender I got last year, with some pretty awesome photography of monkeys.  I've been wanting to do this awhile and I had the free time to sit in the actual sun today and do it which was nice. Yay heat wave! I have to side with the line drawing as I just like it, it reminds me of a few people! On the right is my first attempt at using oil pastels, and like I've already mentioned it's been hot today, so it probably wasn't the best time to try them out and actually have a go at using them. i will admit the nostrils are a bit werid as for some reason I haven't got a black crayon. It's not perfect but I guess it is a start of using something I'm not used to at all. I'm sure people would have laughed at me drawing today, as my old still life lecturer says became scared to make a mark of the page for around half an hour. It slowed me down :D But hey that's what trying something new is all about!

Here comes the sun

Paper cut out I've worked on today :)
Very loosely based on the Beatles song . Just a small thing that I'm starting to enjoy in my free time, it my second attempt at this paper cutting technique.

Sewing type

I've been playing about using a sewing machine to try and create some type. This is my 2nd attempt which actually to me doesn't look that bad. The amount of settings I had to go through though was annoying, but hey it sort of works, maybe the *R* looks a little um... Demented, but on the whole I quite like it. :D

Pinterest and the brave

This a website that I've recently come acroos , and it's just amazing!!! It's basically like a giant online pinboard, where you can post images that inspire you etc. The great thing is that you can follow other pinners who will share their pins, and it can lead you to brand new things, you would have of discoverd before!! Also it saves me from having to save all the images on the computer, and trying to source them at a later date as well.

If you are interested in my board its here, which will probably get updated regular - well it won't if I can stay away from etsy.com

http://pinterest.com/taritigerlilly/little-things-that-matter/   my board

And and and and and ... ( yes I waffle even when I write) I feel like a kid again right now, doesn't the new Pixar film the Brave look worthwhile... Pixar, they haven't let me down yet. :D

The dolly got sewn. Yay.
Yes I will change the typography, its not right.

Jane

This is a character that I've been working on the past couple of days for part of my last project at college!    Its about gender equality, this is based on the idea of this character being a marionette doll, hence her arms are in funny places as this is the version without the strings attached, I shall probably post that when I finish it! Hopefully I will be able to make this into a real puppet over the weekend and a storyboard, and and and.... ( I know I'm setting myself a lot of work for a weekend, maybe a little too much) and I need to sew the design into material but that will be just the outline. Wish me luck-  I'm going to need it on my side, hopefully sod's law won't be too mean :P

Some stuff I've been painting, hopefully looks like some part of the galaxy.  Hope you like it.

London :D

stitched together

http://www.duitang.com/people/mblog/20197834/detail/  - A tutorial for two hearts !! I found it really cute and it tied into my research a little for my latest project!

Anyway, here is my attempt at this tutorial below... it was a little strange as I don't think I've done cross stitch since I was 7 or 8.

Because he's just cool

just a doodle... and yes as in yes in Raoul as in Phantom of the Opera!

Society6.com

Randomly browsing through threadless and society 6 trying to get some inspiration of some sort!!


Smile for the camera - Brianna http://society6.com/product/Smile-for-the-Camera_Print

Brianna ( Same person as above) Mad Love

Kiwi an



Doctor Hoo- Pupukachoo
http://society6.com/product/Doctor-Hoo-Painted-Version_Stretched-Canvas

Doctor hoo >>>>
Pupunkachoo