tree peony.

i wanted to try drawing really tricky hand positions and this is what happened, i rather like her =^_^=
as ever, please click for full view, the details are worth it!

also, here's the original scetch, if you're interested *le shrug*

collisions's ep!

the collision's guys ( http://www.myspace.com/collisionsuk
http://www.facebook.com/CollisionsUk?sk=info ) desided that they wanted to save the illustration from my previouse post for an album, so for their ep the singer and myself put this little number together

and this is what i originally drew, next to the final, playable item! so very cool!

they had their first gig on friday 1st july and they utterly rammed the venue! it was incredible, the first five rows were dancing their soaks off and though it was boiling nobody left part way through!

collisions's lady.

finally gonna post the full version of the the lovely lady who adorns my banner, i'm sure you'll like her =^_^=

she was an illustration i drew for uni that was bassed on the music of the brand new brighton band collisions

http://www.myspace.com/collisionsuk
http://www.facebook.com/CollisionsUk?sk=info

to me (and apparently to them also, as they're gonna be using her for their frist ep cover) she looks how their music sounds =^_^= please do go give them a listen, they've been working really hard and have got the recording's up and ready for your audio pleasure!

her headphones being  jacked into the tattoo of her heart, was i think a freaky bit of subliminal messaging as i was listening to their tracks as i drew her, it wasn't until i was most of the way through the neat pencil work that i realised that one of the lyrics in the track 'boom' was 'and i shall never lose my focus, 'cause i can hear my heart!' very weird when i noticed what i'd done!

cup of the brown stuff!

uni project to create a 'how to' guide to anything we wanted, i chose 'how to make a cup of tea, to my dad's exacting standards' :)

drawn with a dip-pen and blue ink (so's to resemble clasic blue glaze on white china)!

and for those who like tea as much as myself and my father check out professor elemental gentleman rhymer on youtube!! -->  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

and if you liked that one have a look at fighting trousers too -->  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk   

self portrait.

my illustration classmates had the idea that instead of putting up photos of ourselves with our work at our end of year exhibition, brighton exhibition and 'new designers' exhibition, that if we were to draw self portrates we would have more of our own work on the walls and generally be a little bit different =^_^=

so here's mine, with my favorite drink and my favorite flowers... though i think i actually look my age in this drawing, where as in reality i tend to be mistaken (on average) for 5 years yonger than i really am *le shrug*.

china.

i realy loved the photo on the front of the Telegraph news paper's fashion supliment, so i thought i'd draw her =^_^= as ever created with anything i had at hand, pencil, fine liner, tea, ink, water colour and a dash of copic marker!

the owl & the birds.

this was a school project to illustrate a moral tail, i chose the owl and the birds by asop.

 the story (as copyed and pasted):
AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn first began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and not allow it to grow. She said acorns would produce mistletoe, from which an irremediable poison, the bird- lime, would be extracted and by which they would be captured. The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them. And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves. The Birds gave no credence to these warning words, but considered the Owl to be beside herself and said that she was mad. But afterwards, finding her words were true, they wondered at her knowledge and deemed her to be the wisest of birds. Hence it is that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.

 a bit macarb but i really like how the dead birds came out...

close up of the forester.

 

 

as it was mothers day when i was working on this project i decided to draw my mum a cute owl as a present  :3