Owl City

A postcard I sent to Mark this week.

Think I prefer the toned down version.

Graphics

Decided on my image for the city poster.
Kirkgate market at night.
I may go and take some more this week....
If i dare.

Quick scans

'Sorry I went to make food'

When I say 'make food' I mean pour cereal and milk in a bowl.
Here's some badly edited sketchbook pages to chew on

Warped

Quick idea for a postcard design.
I'm illustrating invisible cities by Italo Calvino

This image is based on a line about spiral staircases:

'When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels desire for a city. Finally when he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made'

The way home

I took a few photos on my way home from uni.
My favourite things. Let me explain.
Cow Sticker: Who doesn't love some nice pink udders on a signpost?
Floor6: I live on floor 8 and insist on taking the stairs. When I see this sign I know I'm nearly there
Fish!: The best piece of graffiti around these parts
53Mailbox: I loveee getting mail!

'Cheer up'/'Everything looks grey today'

I saw this window sticker in one of the upstairs studios. I noticed it whilst having my lunch, it reminded me of this little sketchbook scruff I did a while ago.
It makes me smile when I put the two together.

'Cutting and drawing'

Images from my final workshop of the semester..
I've isolated and edited my favourite bits

John Cage

'If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If still boring then eight.
Then sixteen...
then thirty-two.
Eventually one discovers that it is not boring atall.'

Red

I like to make lists.
They help me think.

Fruitella inspired

She's a dying flower

Sketchbook samples

Just some roughs from my sketchbook.
Everything seems to be more scribbly lately.

Sometimes I hate that Sunday feeling

This week + nails

Since as I havn't updated in a week, I thought I'd do a few posts.
Today's nail art is bling inspired. Using 'Golden Treasure' nail polish from H&M and 'Art Deco - White' from the pound store.
Its been a pretty good week.Visiting lectures from Ultimate holding company - Wednesday and Jonathan Hodgson(Animator/illustrator) - Friday.

My flatmate had her 20th Birthday this weekend, so a few of us celebrated in our student kitchen with music and a fair amount of alcohol.

Was pretty hungover Saturday morning, but cured by Crumpets me and Mark went to Visit the Royal Armories museum. Orginally we planned to check out a comic convention but when we got there weaponary seemed like a better chocie. There was some fantastic stuff in there and the building itself was pretty impressive.
Ended the day with a pub tea and Peepshow.
My Sunday night will probably consist of washing, ironing and polishing off this bottle of cloudy lemonade.

(Royal Armories pics to come...)

Talking to my boys

Makes me very happy :)
I miss our little wolfpack.

Sunday

Once it goes 12am I will have made it a week without sweets. The first/second day I couldn't cope with lack of sugar, now I'm shocked to say that I might not revert back to my sugar fueled ways. I feel much better for cutting them out and my teeth aren't hurting anymore.
I still be adding a cheeky bit of silverspoon to my coffee of course!



The week has really flown by. I have just over a month in uni before I break up for christmas :O
Most of my deadlines are December 5th so I'll really have to get cracking on my poster and city book.
Tonight I've been far too chilled. Listening to Cypress hill and drinking Pepsi. I've got an early tutorial tomorow morning so tonight's going to be a late one I think.

Went to the German christmas market with Mark today, Its full of little wooden gifts, christmas deccorations, German wheat beer <3, pretzels and crepes. The smell of mulled wine was heavenly I felt like a theif just inhaling all the different smells, crepes, melted chocolate etc.
It's on for about a month so I'll deffinately pop down again, do abit of christmas shopping and take a few pictures.

'Dying' flowers

To me they're even more beautiful than they are in bloom.

Unknown

'Anyone can give up, its the easiest thing to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength'