Long time, no blog, naughty me

Oh dear, i have been a bit lapse at posting to this blog, i hope this post will be the first step of getting back into the routine of it.  

Anyway, to get the ball rolling here is a doodle i drew on thursday evening, at the brilliant fun and awesomely ace Doodle Planet, i think he is a happy cloud whale .... 

Merry Christmas!

Freak for Amelia's Magazine

Recently i've been doing some illustration for Amelia's Magazine, the most recent of which is this one, interpreting Illamasqua's new fragrance Freak.

I had an awful lot of fun working on this image, something a bit different from what i normally do. I wanted to reference the existing glamourous advertising images for the fragrance, as well as to try and capture some of the spirit of the Illamasqua brand, as dark and sexy but also playful.

Happy bear

Here is a happy bear, a little sneak at something i'm working on, keeping me amused on a chilly gloomy autumn morning ...

Brand new baby

In very exciting news, my friends Tom and Mimi had a little baby boy in the early hours of Saturday morning, he is 100% gorgeous and i get to be his Fairy Godmother! It's a complete case of awesome, beamish and wow!

New Designers

Last week i exhibited down at New Designers alongside some of my fellow MA and BA graduates from Glyndwr University.

Photo thanks to Nia Ellis

As a stand we received a lot of positive feedback, with one of the BA students being selected for the creative review pick of ND, while my own work was selected for the Arts Thread blog:

http://blog.artsthread.com/2011/07/designers-2011-illustration/

Photo thanks to Nia Ellis

It is a little surreal to emerge from a tiny corner of North Wales and to find that there really are people beyond the college walls and some of them have positive things to say about our work. It was an exciting time for all of us but i am very aware of how much hard work is ahead of me ... i'm looking forward to that.

In other news i spotted one of my lovely friend's work in Paperchase yesterday which was brilliant, work she got from exhibiting at New Designers in 2009, a nicely timed reminder that despite the overwhelming amount of competition, success is possible!

The one in the middle, with the couple holding on to balloons.

http://pearlbutton.tumblr.com/

happy birthday wishes

Just a little something to say a slightly belated happy birthday to my mum - well she's been jet setting around all over the place again, so i had to wait till i saw her to pass on her bday greetings in person and now i can share them on here ...

... mmm coffee and cake :-)