I haven't really go much to post, I have a few drawings in my book and I'm itching to make a few things but haven't yet go around to it. I'd love to do an illustration course, it seems so lovely, I adore books and pictures and it, to me, is a thing that's so humble and sweet. All the illustrators that I look at and like surround themselves with unique, beautiful things. I want to do that. Have a work place that's truly inspirational to me. Not built for others. A haven for me, full of wonderful things. I'm on Etsy currently and some of the things I've found are lovely. I wonder if I could create illustrations from sewing characters.

I like typography, but mostly I like it when it's sweet, like the type of things that Rob Ryan uses. I know I should be more interested in illustrating world events and things that are in the newspapers, but to be truthful, I find that sort of thing highly gloomy, not at all something wonderful or fun. I'd much prefer to draw something with a more personal theme. If I feel an emotion or am going through a situation someone else is bound to be able to relate and find comfort or become warmed by the fact someone else has gone through the same.

I go through fads. I'm like a child really. Currently I'm obsessed with Deer's. They are the most brilliant creatures to look at. I'm also really into tea cups. I've seen a tea cup with a Deer illustration stuck to the inside. I'm am completely obsessed with it. Small things make me happy. There is a church fair on Tuesday and I cannot wait.

Anyway, I have work tomorrow but I shall post some pictures up after I finish :)

This is my personal sketchbook that I'm currently working in. I'm trying to develop my own style to illustrate in. I'm normally really fussy when it comes to sketchbooks, but I'm forcing myself not to rip out a page if there is something on there that I don't like. I'm also trying to get into the habit of using one media form and then going back in a few weeks and adding to that with another media

form.

I really like using words with my illustrations, as you can see. My favourite type of text to use is the block one that looks really good cut out. I've used it on four pages. I also like writing things that are personal and that have come out of my head from a situation I've been in or am in. That may be an incredibly selfish thing, but I believe what I've gone through or am going through, many other people have too and they can relate to my work and find comfort in that.

Out of all these pages the one with the squirrel on the telephone asking "Why do you always do this to me?" is my favourite. I'm going to really look forward to adding another media form to these pages such as oil paints or watercolours, I might after I am satisfied with what I can do by hand scan a page or two in and edit then image on photoshop.

I attempted another lino print, this time of Kurt Cobain. Here is how it was started.

I love lino's, the whole process. 

These we're the results from my Amy Winehouse lino prints. I think they turned out really well. I experimented with printing onto fabric. I think it worked well and would look good atop of a floral material. I think I'm going to print onto some patterned material and scan the product into Photoshop and minimise it to the correct size, to see if the image is still as effective stamp size.

For my stamp project, I'm toying with the idea of using the '27 Club' as my theme. I've photoshopped some images around a 60's icon theme but I really like the effect of something that's been hand produced. Here I've got an image of Amy Winehouse and I've decided to create a lino print, which I like because you can use it again and again :) I put the image onto a piece of lino and then cut out the relevant pieces.

On the 20th of October, I organised a Fancy Dress day where the proceeds when to a charity that gives children in 3rd world countries a Christmas. The art department raised £56 odd and I was extremely happy with how everything went. Everyone looked amazing and was really generous. Here we have the Milky Way Kid, Doctor Who (I couldn't resist editing this photo) and me as a witch :) It was brilliant seeing all the outfits. The tutors judged the outfits and Mr. Bean won :)

After I decided not to use the animal cruelty idea for my journal of idea's project, I moved on to the theme of how the media pressurises little girls to grow too fast. 

I've always been fascinated with the idea of something you can interact with or something that you look at and you want to touch. Tracy Emin, 'People I have slept with' or more commonly known 'The Tent' is something that I've taken inspiration from for this piece. I've decided to set my, like Emin's, in a tent.

I'm going to use this child's tent, that you can see me in and convey the message and ask the question about the media making girls grow up to fast. I'm currently undecided whether I'd like to have my facts inside or outside. I'm currently swaying more towards outside and filing the inside with pornographic magazines, small padded bra's and other items that young girls have to face day in day out.

People can blame the way girls dress older than they are on their parents, but that's not always the case. My eight year old sister, who is always dressed like an eight year old should be, recently said she wants to be a super model and that she needs to be incredibly thin to do some, thus she won't eat, lucky she likes food far to much to stop. That's not my families opinions pushed onto her, that's the media and what the media considers beautiful.

I love McDonald's I really do. Especially when it's sunny :)

For my Journal of Idea's project, I wanted initially to create illustrations advertising against animal cruelty and all the related topics. However after I carried out more research, I decided to change my theme to something different (How the media makes young girls grown up to quick) This picture is of me editing a hand drawing that I scanned into the mac. It's off Little Red Riding Hood, wearing a wolf fur coat covered in blood. I was going to use loads of different well known characters from children's stories and have an aspect of animal cruelty in each illustration

There is a poster in the art studio that I may have 'Borrowed'. It's for the Cheltenham Illustration Show which I really want to go to at some point, I missed it this because I was on holiday. I've started a project where we have to design a first day cover and a set of stamps. I was a tad worried because I thought I'd have no interest in this subject at all although at the moment I seem to be proving myself wrong as I have loads of ideas. I'm trying to put them all in before I forget them... :)

 This was my first day back in college and the beginning of my obsession with hoarding and magpie-ing. Initially everything was quite neat and organized. Here I'm even sticking my briefs on the boards that surrounded my desk... start as you mean to go on I think was my intention... it was a nice though. I loved having a space that you could decorate, being surrounded by inspirational stuff is amazing, it such a good feeling coming in to college and having a type of home away from home.