I whip my hair back & forth

Biro & photoshop.

Joan of Arc

Water colours, stamps & some patterns printed and cut into triangles to form a dress.

Never Ending

Cant remember the last time I drew this much and actually liked what I drew. I began drawing this as a street style photo, of a girl I saw in a black tutu skirt, fishnet tights and a leather jacket. But half way through I looked at it and thought it was shit. So I did what I always do and just raped it which ink marks, colour and bits of paper.

Biro

I really need to draw photos from nights out to represent a particular aspect of Shoreditch, but I hate drawing people when it's not a beauty shots or portraiture. Well.. I don't hate it, I just avoid it like the plague because I am worried that it'll be a bollocks drawing and take me 3 hours. So I let myself in easy by recreating an Esra Roise picture using biro then (obviously) photo editing it. Cant help but notice I've managed to make the girl in the background look like me with a bad gurn?

Stick to what you know

Had a disaster with some experimentation earlier; I did a truly AWFUL illustration. This isn't even me being ridiculously OCD, it was literally awful, it was amateur with crap colours and shit shading. Urgh, no. So I slapped myself round the face and told myself to get on with it, stick to what you know, and pick up some pencils. So I ended up doing two illustrations, which I think might be the best I have done.

Clash

I did a quick photoshoot for my Hoxton Square & Curtain Road. It was supposed to be inspired by the Circus School located in Shoreditch, so I used my flatmates crazy wardrobe as the styling to try and project a Harlequin trend we had seen. We thought clashing patterns, bright colours. However once I took the photos I realised they made better style shots than a circus themed photoshoot, which now I think will be more relevant for our book.

A Compilation

Our compilation ready for the exhibition in Covent Garden. Couldn't be more proud of how our group have come together after all that.

Film Debut

So today we made our video. Our model broke her ankle last week, so I ended up prancing about trying to channel Alice Dellal. Here's the final thing. It was filmed by Jermaine Ampomah, Becca Boyd-Wallis and Sam Taylor. I edited it myself, so as not to be completely unartistic and useless.

The Great Gatsby

When I found out that Baz Luhrmann was directing the new adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, I was pissed off. Gatsby is my favourite book; I read it for English A-Level and have read it since countless times. It's such a gorgeous book, and I usually really dislike film adaptations of amazing books (minus Atonement). However it's been announced that Carey Mulligan is to play Daisy Buchanan, and Leonardo diCaprio will play Gatsby, and the film with not be murdered made into a musical by Mr Luhrmann. So I'm quite interested to see how it ends up. I think Carey Mulligan makes a perfect Daisy, especially from seeing this from her screen test.

Devotion to who

I'm going to put the pencil down soon, just bashing out a few more. This is my street style sketch, scanned in and edited using Toy Camera. Getting closer and closer to finishing this project, just need to do one major composition and finish my sketchbook.

I know why the caged birds sing

Finally getting back into the swing of things with my drawings. I don't know why I abandoned pencil drawings; maybe it's because I used them out when I did my Alevels, but I'm not reaching any sort of level of shading as I did with pencil. So here's my bird cage illustrations, again for the Hoxton Project, from a birdcage in a shop on Curtain Road. The first is an illustration adjusted on photoshop of a Nicomi Nix Turner picture that I loved. The second is my composition.

London Fashion Victim

John Lennon sunglasses are making a comeback; but seems to be for people who probably don't even know which of the Beatles John Lennon is. I need to stop being so satirical whilst I do illustrations for my project. These are a watercolour drawing I did on lined paper scanned & manipulated quite obviously with photoshop. I couldn't resist.

Getting back into the swing of it

Been trying to draw and illustrate and pattern as much as possible to get back into the swing of things, since my last illustration was so disgusting I refuse to look at it any longer. These are some for my project on Hoxton/Shoreditch.

My new crush

Mary Katrantzou. She's just won the Swiss Textiles Award for her Spring/Summer 2011 collection which showed at London Fashion Week in September.