sketchbook mini posters

Hey hey, dudes and dudettes!

I got back from a three-day-weekend in Amsterdam earlier this week. I was meant to meet withLois van Baarle, but that didn't end up happening.... Anyway, it was still fun. Might upload trip photos later if I remember :)

Barcelona next week ;)

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panties!

I had a lot to choose from in the way of posting. That always makes me feel good. So today I shall post the second set of structured 'collections' originally intended to be used in my Obsessions & Eccentricities project.

Aaaand it's my underpants! How's that for getting intimate with an audience for you? haha!
I thought it was interesting that, for me anyway, it's the clothing that no one sees that is most expressive (and colourful...which you can't see here...) and that I choose very meticulously.

I had further plans for this one that I may well continue with so you may see more of my undies later.

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it's been too long

Christmas holidays were too awesome! Went to Boston and got my parents to drive me down to New York so I could meet with Roxie Vizcarra(!!!) for a uni project (Picaresque) for which we need to interview an illustrator. She was cool and her work is really worth a look if you don't know it already: www.roxination.com.

I need to update more regularly.. And so I shall! Or at least I'll try. But things are going to be really busy with uni as we're preparing to have our second year degree show (which we organise almost completely independently).

In an effort to have stuff uploaded more regularly, I'll post a few sketches every week or few days or something :)

For some reason I now love little sketchbooks. I'm usually a ring-bound A4 kinda girl, but I got my first bound little sketchbook some time in June and I've become addicted to them. Got my first little square one today (the other two were A5) and 9 markers to play with. I am going to have so much fun! haha

Noisettes (Wild Young Hearts), Florence + The Machine (Lungs), Moby (Play) and some random trip-hop and the like.... This is in my head at the moment...

Can ya dig it?

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Even a single hair casts its shadow

So I drew 36 of my friends' hairstyles :)

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Spaghetti Western

This is so appropriate now that I've just finished a bowl of spaghetti! Well, we had a one week assignment which went like this: using one of the five preselected paintings deemed suitable for this project as a springboard, create a wordless story with 12 images.

We were meant to use the colours from the painting as well, but I didn't follow that part of the brief as closely as I could have I suppose... hmm...

It still needs tweaking... I'd like to draw out the beginning really to show that the cowboy was in the middle of a card game that was interrupted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster's presence before the series of western-style ages-before-anything-happens poses.

I've grown rather attached to this cowboy character... I may well use him again...

And here I shall include the prep work for a few of the pages. See if you can decipher them as they are coded in Nicole-brain-language (not too different from binary really...).

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Chaaaanges

I need easy access to a scanner. That would make updating a lot less annoying/boring for everyone involved really >:/

Soooo, basically recently I've been revising my work and methods and other shabizzle and I've decided that I'm not happy with the way that I work. I'm getting sick of the flowy, delicate way that I do things. But I think that really I just want a change of content more than 'style' -- because (I like to believe) the way I work adapts to the subject matter of a piece. I need to release the raw, gritty, manly stuff (....or somethin....lol). So today I've been drawing other stuff that interests me but that I never draw.

Sit tight! Scans soon to come (I hope!).

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Lula Girl

I think my personal style has changed a lot over the past few months. Well, no. It hasn't changed so much as I've been "exercising my right to express myself through the medium of fashion" to put it in the most pseudo-revolutionary and/or self-empowering-sounding way possible! haha

So, taking a tip from kantieb0, I think I may start drawing(/photographing?) my outfits and such...as I love them all so dearly.
...Does that make me sound shallow?? I don't mean to.. I'm not really... Hmm... Oh well, who cares! It means more art. Surely that's a good thing. All stigmas can be forgotten! HUZZAH!
And I suspect having now found Lula shall only exacerbate the problem...

What can I say? I like fashion. It's true :|

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Reading

I need to do more reading for my Literature Review (which is basically dissertation practice for me as I plan to carry on the subject I'm doing for my Literature Review into my dissertation). I tend get midway through books and then stop reading no matter how interesting the book is. I don't know why. I have at least (literally!!) 10 or so books I need finish... I always get around to it eventually, though..(Speaking of, there are also a few more books I want to start...so maybe I should finish some books before adding to the list of unfinished ones...)
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Alice night

Been working on posters for an Alice night. Overall not too pleased to be honest. I tend to like my sketches more than my finished work, but even more so recently it seems. I may upload more of the sketches later; but here's one I turned straight into a poster proposal.


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postcards!

Well, I got postcards of four selected works printed. How does £2ea. sound? :)

Okay! I know it's been a while and I said that I'd have something to post last week... Well I did have something to post last week (this information about postcards!), but I just never got around to taking pictures and posting... Delinquent, I know! But I'm doing okay if I post at least once every month, right? It could be like the monthly post or something. So, really, I'm pretty on the ball! haha, nono, I'll keep it together and post more regularly.. I just have to get my act together.. get myself to a scanner.. take more photos... do more CG...
Basically, I have to just do!

I'm workin' on it! ;)

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