Collage (e.e.p)

A couple of my experiments of collage and photos. I wanted to make it look as if you're witnessing a drunk one through a first person point of view or in the form of a camera or photo, showing how easy it is for others to remember you...thus saying 'Be remembered for the right reasons!!' Tad cheesy perhaps...? I'll see where it goes.
WARNING these photos were taken from various photos of messy nights so if you're in them... apologies!

Alternates (e.e.p)

'Be remembered for the right reasons'... showing the alternate endings to a night- one with alcohol and one without. These two images are of different people but they're my favourites so here you are...

Alcohol
Sober

Bits and bobs

Today I needed to get out the house so I took a long wander around central. I took a little hot chocolate break and made a few observational drawings...


This past week I also modified an owl I drew back in the summer by adding a bit of colour. I've never really focused any of my illustration around animals, but I quite enjoyed doing this one so I think I'll experiment with them in the future

Sequence (e.e.p)

These were supposed to be rough sketches documenting the deteriorartion of a drink-fuelled night, but I got quite into them and quite like the result. They're in desperate need of colour though.

The Drawing Board

My housemate Ross has organized an exhibition for our illustration class and a few other artists.

Come see!!

Class (e.e.p)

I eventually want to turn some of these images into photos. A kind of anti-Skins shoot. None of the glamour, photoshop or handy lighting. Just awful, unflattering drunk photos of what you really look like

Note the zombie eye and lack of chin. Yum

Oh dear (e.e.p)

How we thought we looked...

How we actually looked

NEW STARTS (e.e.p)

I'm going to start keeping this thing up to date. More work less rambling

My new project is to create a campaign aimed at 13-16 year olds to reduce underage drinking
I've decided to take the 'cringe' route. Everyone I know has had an excruciatingly cringe drunken experience, or a night where you just think '...why?!'
The morning after on facebook never helps, when last nights photos are uploaded and the memories come flooding back
Therefore I want to base my campaign around the images that could be the focus of a photo. The images you dread people seeing, the things you don't want to be remembered for
After talking to young teenagers, flicking through my old diaries and getting details of early drunken experiences off my friends it seems to me that most underage drink-fuelled nights are generally messy and quite miserable
Vomiting, passing out, falling out with friends and making a fool out yourself out of the one you like

SO...

This is a scan from my old diary. It documents a failed night from when I was about 15. It's cringy and it's miserable but here it is for all to see! I've illustrated a 'key' quote using pen and watercolour. I've illustrated more but they name names so I think I'll keep them to myself for now...

Watercolour and pen. Based on a friend's experience

Procrastinate much..

Eating too many pistachios and listening to Buffy: The Album. I feel like I'm 14 again
So so much printing. Worried I'm going to run out of ink before Monday

Cups!!

These are my screenprinted ones

D.I.Y

These are two of four images representing the four seasons in the country
I want them to be like an illustrated fashion shoot. Still in developement. I need to add colour
Hmmm

Excuse

Sarah had a masquarade ball for her Birthday
We all wore masks and pretty dresses

I only have 14 polaroids left now

This is what a night in A&E does to you...

Alex fell down the stairs and broke her ankle
So we took her to hospital to get it checked out
We finally left at 5am after 6 HOURS of waiting
6 hours of junk food, complaining patients, tea, A-Z games, knitting, brainwashing adverts, trying and failing to sleep, the antiques roadshow, the most epic entrance to A&E I've ever seen...
And my sleepy doodles

Kirky and Ross
My, don't they look happy...

The worst news, however, is that Alex is stuck in a cast and will be leaving us for a few weeks :(
Get well soon!! xx

Also

Me. With some tea
A rough for my 'Day in the life' project
I prefer the roughs to the final piece

Wrinkles

I keep leaving my Perfect Ten sketchbook at uni so I can't scan anything from it. Annoyingggg
However I do have some bad quality photos of a few pieces.
Older people I admire for being generally amazing and not caving into plastic surgery


I just saw The Host again. AMAZING. Watch please