Fashion Head

Part of fashion design is drawing (can you believe it har har). But anyway, I drew a head for my designs. It’s basically a modified drawing of a photo of Cara Delevingne, as I needed a slightly narrower mouth for the scale that I needed the head to be at.

Let me know what you think!

Motivate me..

http://elitedaily.com/life/motivation/this-video-uses-jelly-beans-show-you-how-much-youre-wasting-your-life-video/

The small video above is worth a watch. It actually motivated me get on and do something today, rather than trying to put off uni work. It makes you think, how many minutes, hours, days are you wasting by just sitting around waiting for something to happen? It all adds up in the end. I need to make changes in my life, and this video has proved that. I don’t want to look back on my late teens/early twenties and think I could have done something better, something worthwhile. I need to work for what I want and there’s only one way that that is going happen, by doing it myself, and only myself. Life is too short to worry about what could happen and what happens if… Just do it!

Quoting lord Drake, YOLO!

Waiste Clothing

I found, through instagram again, a new range of clothes called Waiste Clothing. I think the designs and styles and quite boho-chic, but theyre wearable and they’re sooo reasonable at pricing!

Visit www.waiste.co.uk for the clothing and jewellery. Username on instagram is WAISTE_CLOTHING

Their website features the Waiste blog too, which is definitely worth looking at. I am actually in love with a crushed velvet boho jacket. It’s sold out at the moment, but for £25, I am definitely waiting!

 

Print SS14

I love Company Magazine. I follow them on instagram (my username is ‘jemmleigh’ if anyone is interested) and today I saw a couple of posts about the label Mint Velvet. They have their own website here,

http://www.mintvelvet.co.uk/

I think the designs are very contemporary casual. They’re simplistic, but comfy. And if I’m honest, for a label like Mint Velvet, with the range of designs and the quality of their clothing, I don’t think the pricing is too much. Definitely have a look, it is well worth it!

Back to Company’s instagram, I saw some really interesting print on a bomber jacket, peg leg trousers and miniskirts, and I assume its press day for SS14, because I couldn’t find any print like that anywhere on their website. Definitely will be keeping an eye on their site, and my bank balance as a student if I want to buy some of their clothing!

Fabrics

I thought this would be fashion related; found some cool sites for fabric today, five free samples and then a charge for each sample after.

www.myfabric.co.uk

 

I found some AMAZING faux fur that would work so well in my current project at uni (I’m basing a concept on Robert Scott’s Antarctic exhibition). But seriously, check these guys out.

 Also found this site, based in London.

http://www.thesilksociety.com

You can’t order online, but the range of fabrics looks sooooo good! Plus the fabrics been used in the film Snow White and the Huntsman. I reckon that’s well worth a trip to the capital!

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing illustrator, Furry Little Peach

So I was thinking, I want to feature other blogs, including illustrators and fashion guys, on my own blog.

Firstly, I want to introduce Sha’an D’athes from Australia.

Go visit her work http://furrylittlepeach.blogspot.co.uk/

I found her through a friend on facebook. She has a page called Furry Little Peach, and it’s just the most amazing paintings and drawings that I have seen in forever! Her style is so unique and her drawings seem so effortless and flawless. I will definitely be writing about her again in the future!  They have been the motivation for me to start my own collection of drawings and illustrations. Yay for Sha’an!

Here are some examples of her work that I love,

 

Always a meaning

I finished my own personalised sugar skull at last (hurrah!) I'm pleased with it if I'm honest. The flowers, the tear drops, the love hearts and even the crosses (I'm an atheist but I do believe in the faith and hope that every religion carries). The writing, instead of a web that would symbolise death, is actually my tattoo that I have on the side of my right foot.

It says "la mia bella principessa", which any of you Italian folks know, means 'my beautiful princess'. It sounds cheesy, but the meaning is not.

My great nan, who I adored so much, passed away about 18 months ago. I was always close to her, even though she lived in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and I lived in Southampton, England. We spoke on the phone weekly and whenever we would she each other, we would just have a laugh. She was no ordinary great grandmother, she was my crazy Italian great grandmother that I looked up to in so many ways. I was her first great grandchild, and when I was young I have the biggest blue eyes and red curly hair, and she called me her 'beautiful princess'. I still think about her everyday, and no decision is made without thinking of her view and her wacky answer that she would come up with.

Nothing should be made without a meaning behind it, whether be a decision or something creative. Rarely any good pieces of art or otherwise are made without a true meaning.

But back to the skull, I will eventually get round to the colour. But for now, I'm going to spend more time on my pencil and pen techniques, yay!