A few more card ideas.

Two of hearts,

Two of Diamonds, 

Four of Diamonds

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Together... Forever II

So this is the second image in the sequence in how love can turn into obsession. I really like exploring teen problems especially the angst that teenage girls feel, I think there's so much to illustrate and portray.
The second image in how things can escalate and go wrong in love, and turn into obsession, is the breakup which is show below. For this image i wanted to go darker, to show the pain that breaking up with someone can cause. Scrolled across the image are the words 'don't leave me.'


Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated

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Setting the Trend

Ten days since my last blog! Don't think me idle, I was up to other things such as writing (I was not lazing about), I even went on a ten mile cycle ride up in the country-over all those hills! But here are a few works I managed to do during my breaks from typing.

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Cards

These are just a few little things I was working on today :)

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Queen of the Pack

I have really cheesy titles for my work I know...but I just can't help myself. Okay so here's what i've been working on today, a couple of playing cards. So far I've done the Queen of Hearts and the Queen of Diamonds and am currently working on two Aces and another Queen. It's just a fun project for me to kick back and relax between writing and dress making. I liked the so much that I made them into stickers and m going to do up a little sticker pack collection once i've finished the sets off. Hope you like them!

And here's another one I've just finished: The Queen of Spades

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The Paper Dress

So I had a load of brown paper kept from Amazon packages, thinking that it would come in handy with my art work at some point. As time went and the pile became a mini mountain, I decided that I would try and make a dress out of it. I had bought a dress makers mannequin nearly a year ago and hadn't done anything with it, so i thought i'd give it a bash. I had to do something with all that paper!
I really enjoyed the process and have learnt from a few errors that I made (like the dress needs to come off the mannequin when it's completed, and had to be cut off. Also that I should probably measure my model not guesstimate). I liked the final out come and was feeling adventurous to make a hat to come along with dress. I can't wait to finish making my Candy dress made from sweet wrappers left over from Christmas. Fun!

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Fade Through

This was just a little experiment messing around with colour in Photoshop to see what else I could do with my illustrations.

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Together... Forever

I received a comment saying that the imagery I uploaded last was 'dark and beautiful' so I wanted to play around with that more. So staying with the idea of 'Valentine' i decided to illustrate how love can be a little disturbing sometimes, at how something beautiful can start to turn into obsession. This was originally going to be just one image but i'm going to turn it into a little sequence of how things can escalate and go wrong.

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Joker and a Valentine

Okay, it's been a while since I last posted...Whoa that long! But I haven't been idle in my absence. I have an exciting shoot coming up with a dress that I made myself, completely from paper. I've also started work on another dress made entirely from Candy wrappers left over from Christmas, what else was I going to do with them? I've also been working on a little memento box for my friend and I can't wait to send it off to her so I can finally upload the images to my blog. As well as doing all this I've found time to work on some illustrations I outlined before Christmas and these are the results. Let me know what you think.

The first image is called 'Valentine' which is a drawing from a shoot I did with my sister a couple of weeks ago. It was a 50's style shoot inspired by the 50's dress I had in the back of my wardrobe that I forgot about, we played around with different poses and props and I thought that one of the photos would make an excellent Valentines day image.

The next Image is from the same 50's shoot, I loved the laughter in the photo. We had such fun doing the poses and there was a lot of joking and messing around that I decided to combine our fun on the shoot and came up with the Joker. And i'm thinking of going further and doing some more/maybe all the playing cards.

And the last image is a rough idea of the paper dress I made which I will photograph soon, and will be up on my blog at the end of the week.

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