Craft Guerrilla

My copy of the latest Craft Guerrilla arrived this morning! It's great to see my work in print :)

Now to get on with a list and lots of work (I hope) :)

Happy New Year

At the beginning of 2010, I was in my second year of university and completely unsure of the direction I wanted to take. The only thing that really struck my interest was editorial illustration, but I also loved print and collage. I felt uneasy about my future as I had no recognisable style and worried I just wasn't strong enough to make it into such a huge industry as illustration.

However, as my summer holidays took underway, I received an email from an online magazine I'd subscribed to. It was all about a wonderful opportunity to be in Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration. The open brief looked fun and exciting, so I decided I'd enter, I thought if nothing else it would keep me illustrating over the summer. I'd never done fashion illustrations before, so thought I had no chance. 

It was at this point that I joined twitter and a little later I set up a blog (Amelia insisted that participants be on twitter - so thankful for that, at the time I didn't think it was important, but it's brought so much to me). Each of these decisions were some of the best things I ever did. After entering, I kept answering calls for illustrators for Amelia's Magazine and worked hard all summer. I was on holiday in Venice when I got an email saying I'd been chosen for the book, and I'd never been so excited or happy! I've produced quite a lot of illustrations for them now, and am so grateful because without this, I'd still be lost. Thank goodness for that email, eh?

I have since contributed to Cellardoor Magazine, Craft Guerrilla, been featured on numerous blogs, been a finalist in a Company Magazine fashion illustration competition and jointly set up Tea & Crayons Collective with five of the loveliest girls I could ask to meet. This year has changed me so much and I am now more confident, happy and excited for my future than ever before! This year, I think, is going to be great! 

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I just want to share some of my New Years Eve photos before I leave. For years, I have been so disappointed by New Years, so decided to do something completely different - stay in with my lovely boyfriend!

We made mulled wine, lit candles, had nibbles, danced around, drank winter pimms and were just generally very silly - perfect night in! :) Happy New Year everybody! xx

Craft Guerrilla

Hello! Just a quick post to say the latest issue of Craft Guerrilla is available to buy. My illustration has been used as the cover, very exciting! :)

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Craft Guerrilla

So, as you can see with Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration coming out very soon, I have been hard doing five extra, yet to be seen images for the book. You won't be able to see them until the book is released, so what a better reason to buy the book and see them first! So many of my lovely illustration friends are involved too! 

You may remember me mentioning Tea & Crayons a while back. Well, it will be launching very soon. So why not get ready and start following  Tea&Crayons on twitter now? You won't regret it!

Now down to more news! A while ago I heard Craft Guerrilla were looking for contributors for their new zine. I let them know I was interested and got an email back a couple of days ago asking if i'd like to do the cover! I was delighted. I'll post another blog when its ready, so you can check out my illustration and all other creative things inside too!

Have a nice weekend all :)