A couple of bits.

I recently made a big cartel to sell a few bits. Here are a couple of a5 illustrations I have prints of. They're up in the store. Lozzybonesart.bigcartel.com 

Go shop :) 

Decided to finish her...

Gold leaf and graphite on heavy cartridge. A comment on body positivity. Your body is beautiful, don't change yourself to fit someone else's idea of beauty. 

KILLSTAR occult luxury

Death tarot card Tshirt design for killstar. Available from killstar.com

Rachel and Will wedding branding

This little commissioned ditty will be going on pacesettings, invitations, party favours and any paperwork worthy of having a wedding logo on it. Congratulations will and Rachel on your engagement! 

Mandala rose mandala rose...

A tattoo design for George, incorporating dot work mandala sections and traditional style roses. 

...can I have my tattoo apprenticeship now please? 

Trade with Sacraluna

Here is the fruit of my trade with Sacraluna, after seeing my trade with Ladylocks on instagram she found it and commented, I checked out her work and she has some amazing jewels. As I previously confirmed my jewellery addiction in the last post a asked her of she'd fancy doing a trade, there were a lot of crystals used in her work so

I focused on those. Will post a pic of what I get in return when it arrives :) 

Trade with Ladylockslife Part 1

I use instagram a lot. I find it's a better forum for personal work (despite the copyright and 3rd party issues that arose earlier this year) But also I've found some absolutely amazing creative people to follow. Some really talented bastards. It's really inspirational. I follow quite a few curio/wuderkammer, Taxidermy and entomology instagram accounts. Usually a lot of curio jewellery designers who not only make wonderful jewels but really make the effort to tell their followers about the methods they used to make their jewellery and just general information about their topic of interest. I find that it's a completely different picture sharing site, things tend not to get lost like on tumblr. I haven't started using pinterest yet, but I'm sure I'll be all over that like a rash soon enough. Anyway, I follow a lady called Annie Loucks, of Ladylocks creations and heres her instagram account. She makes some really gorgeous jewellery so I proposed a trade. Here is part one. A little a5 graphite/micron and gold leaf illustration. I'm thinking about doing a bit of a fancy wax seal on it, but might just leave that for the envelope. Also a little preview of my ever expanding personal collection of pretties.

Something different?

Here's an a3 piece I just completed using posca and micron. It was my first time using ink/posca on bristol board. I think we can safely say I'm never drawing in anything else again. I've been digging a bit of a tribal-esque thing recently. Been seeing quite a lot of body mods on the web taking inspiration from such things. Thought I'd try out some mandalas and dot work. Would really love to screen print this. 

Tattoo Design Commission for Rachel

Print Club London Deluxe Workshop.

Last week I did a two day workshop at the print club London studio in Dalston. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. I've had a little experience with screen printing but as I hadn't done it in so long, I thought the workshop would be a nice refresher. It definitely was. A small group of 5 over a two day period going through all the basics of screen printing including preparing images in photoshop, preparing screens with light sensitive emulsion, exposing and finally printing and washing out screens. It all came rushing back. I also emailed Print club London about an internship as I'd love to learn more about screen printing professionally and technician work, I'm just in love with the process. They replied pretty swiftly and I have a trial day helping out with a workshop on Thursday. Here's hoping it goes well! Have a look at some piccies from the workshop. Think my print looks pretty bangin' actually.

Lozzy Bones logo progress

Really wanted to get some branding done for a while. Here are the progress photos of the logo artwork I've been designing for myself.

More arrows and DPS thoughts.

Here is another little one from the water colour moleskine. This time only using black posca pen and fineliners, with a touch of colour balancing in photoshop. Again with the arrows, girl. As this year at uni has ended and I'm about to embark on a year out for my Diploma in professional studies course, I need to start getting organised, getting a good portfolio together is crucial. I've never thought of myself as a designer, but with some words from my dps tutor, I need to start thinking about how my work translates onto objects and other surfaces other than just a piece of paper or digital file. I'd really like to start doing some larger scale pieces to help free myself up from the constraints of a sketch book. Maybe some more wall and window drawings. Or start thinking about products I can slap my illustrations on. There are so many things I want to experiment with and achieve in the next year, so I thought it best to write a list of things I can hopefully cross off throughout the course. Some things may be easily achievable, but others not so much and will need some serious time and work put in and some may not be achievable in a year but can be ongoing. 

So what the hell do I want to do? Here's a couple...

1. Work on branding. Make myself a logo and a website with domain name. 

2. Contact Illustration companies in london and Berlin and try an bag those amazing internships that will get me relevant and helpful experience. 

3. Get a separate portfolio together and Look for a Tattooing apprenticeship. 

4. Learn enough German (to not come across as an ignorant English douche) and go to Berlin and intern, but most importantly enjoy time away from London away, from home and away from my comfort zone and little bubble I've made for myself. 

5. Go to New york again on my own. 

6. Get a big body of work together, apply for funding and put on a few solo or collaborative exhibitions. 

7. Start my own or a collaborative online shop, with tshirts, prints and jewellery.

8. Learn Taxidermy to use in my work. I adore Taxidermy, traditional and Rogue and would love to try   combining it with my illustrative style. 

9. Create a zine, comic. 

10. Have some fucking fun and don't worry so much. Do amazing things. Make some great art. 

A nice selection of things to work my way towards during the next year. 

I am the arrow, these are the targets. Aim. 

Water colour experiment

Haven't done any water colour work in years, so as I got a lovely water colour moleskine from my wonderful boyfriend I decided to have a little dabble. The paper was lovely and soon got the hang of it after a few jitters. I have a bit of a thing for arrows at the moment. 

CHIP MONKS logo for the London Log company.

I was asked to do a logo for the London log company who supply kentish wood for a range of uses such as meat smoking and the likes, in a tattoo-esque style with inspirations from traditional wood cuts. The latin means 'Smoke, wood, brotherhood' and the piece also took inspiration from Edward Bawdenn. 

10 commandments/Tarot cards

Haven't blogged in a while! Uni is over for the summer and here are some bits and pieces from my last project. The project was to illustrate the 10 commandments, I really wanted to practice drawing skulls as it's not something I usually include in my illustration, despite my love affair with the macabre. So using Memento Mori and 'The day of the dead' as inspiration I created these using graphite and fine liners. I tried to make them as intricate and detailed as possible as I also wanted to experiment with different textures. I really like the combination of graphite and ink. Personally I think they would make great tattoos. It was really fun coming up with different depictions for each commandment. I tried to stay away from clichés and fully focus on aesthetics. Using the arrows as symbols for conscious thought. I also got a great commission out of this for KILLSTAR clothing for their winter collection, so keep an eye out for that. I'm going to make some more a3 prints of these, so any requests for individuals or just the set on a3 are welcome. I might even make little sets of decorative tarot card packs.

Super Superficial Window display - THE WINDOW COLLECTIVE

A group of students from LCC including myself engaged in a live drawing project for the window of Super Superficial on the 30th May shopping night in Seven Dials, Covent Garden. It was great fun. We really enjoyed bringing our weird animal-hybrid zoo to life. Hoofed cats, sloth bats, lizard dudes, goat walruses and furry cyclops....something or others and not to forget STEAK! Posca power and window wenchy times. A big thank you to super superficials George and Louise for putting up with us all day! 

I did the cat :P

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BLAQMASS CLOTHING

Here are a couple of designs I've contributed to BLAQMASS clothing. Looking forward to working on some more designs for them in the future. 

BUY KALI LADIES T-SHIRT HERE

BUY SHIVA MENS T-SHIRT HERE

DEFRA and Canfield university afternoon project.

6 of us from illustration and visual media at LCC were chosen by our tutor to participate in an afternoon project with DEFRA the government policy makers (department for environment, food and rural affairs) to sit in on various meetings discussing possibilities of what the future might sound/look like, we were asked to contribute visually by illustrating a scenario given to us in teams. I was given the idea of 'a green and pleasant land' which was loosely based around conserving our countryside areas. Here is what I came up with in a few hours. :) enjoyed it thoroughly.

Wallace Collection

Uni project at the Wallace collection, I was assigned the oriental armoury. It housed some seriously gorgeous bits and bobs. Took a fancy to the dagger hilt above and here is my response. Gotta love those cabochon rubies and emeralds. 

Sultan! 

Live drawing progress part deux

I finished the room by Thursday last week so it could be up for Friday. I don't think many people really saw it and I'm a bit disappointed I didn't video me creating it. I will definitely do something like this again. 4 walls 4 days and a shit load of posca pens and I'm pretty proud of myself. It was absolutely soul destroying having to paint over it on Monday morning for the next course exhibition.