April 18th, 2014

update to follow up of “picking up the pace”

Pipped at the post! After hundreds of votes were cast, my design to advertise a budget airline came in at a respectable second! Really quite pleased with myself! See the top ten runners and riders here at The Drum. Having never entered a design competition before, I have now officially got the competition bug… Thanks to all those that voted for me, and well done to the other entries.
April 15th, 2014

follow up to post “picking up the pace”

I made it onto the short list! As some of you may have read earlier in the week, I recently entered a graphic design competition hosted by the Drum magazine to advertise a budget airline – and I made the short list!! I am super excited – it’s the first design competition I’ve ever entered, so currently sporting a rather large grin. As a reader of my blog, please could I…
April 14th, 2014

fun little project

Playing around with Illustrator yesterday I created a cute little fairy that my nieces will totally love. In fact I have created them one each to match their hair and eye tones, as well as favourite colour… I was so pleased with it, that I thought I’d give it a whirl, and turn myself into the homepage fairy for a week or so, after all it is my site. Although…
April 13th, 2014

picking up the pace

At school in art lessons I was always told to come up with ten variations on a theme, choose my three best ideas, develop several ideas based on those ideas to get a final result, which I then had to work on, oh and to keep a notebook of my all my workings out and which artists I had looked at to get my ideas. I have to admit it…