Katie Woodger Illustration

Bizart art/ craft fair

2012-02-02T12:11:00.000-08:00

Next Saturday (11th February) I will be selling some limited edition prints and postcards of my art at the 'Bizart' craft fair in Malvern, England. There will be lots of other great art/ craft stalls there including work by my friend and former housemate and classmate Rosie Smith.

Bizart:

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Harajuku 原宿

2012-01-27T13:38:00.000-08:00

I was clearing up some folders on my macbook and found this outtake from my illustrations inspired by Japanese street fashion for the SORTED London exhibition.

'Harajuku'

Playful Promises gift tins preview

2012-01-19T15:54:00.000-08:00

Playful promises recently updated their facebook with a photo preview of their new gifting tins with my illustrations on! (minus the top two 'circus' themed tins)

They are not in full production yet or on sale in shops, but they should be later on this year! (12 designs in all) Each tin contains a pair of knickers! how cute!

Image Source: Playful Promises official facebook

My 'teaser artwork' for this commission can be seen here here and here.

Goodbye 2011!

2011-12-31T02:21:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the support this year!

A special mention to:

Cynotia for choosing me for your band CD/website artwork

Playful Promises for my commission over the summer (final results/ products coming in 2012!)

and to all those who exhibited with me at SORTED London in June.

and to all the Little Monsters and Blackjacks who supported my Lady Gaga and 2NE1 fanart. THANK YOU! ♥

My art- tattoos

2011-12-24T07:29:00.000-08:00

Over the past year or so, people have been contacting me regarding my drawing of 'Alice in Wonderland' back from my final major project at University in 2010. They loved the image so much they had it tattooed onto various limbs.

Below are 3 separate people who have sent me images of the outcomes:

I can't believe someone would like my drawing so much they are willing to have it permanently etched onto their skin!

I've had 2 other messages from others who asked for my permission to get it done and will be sending me their photos when its finished.

My original drawing:

Alice rebelling against the Queen and painting the roses white

In other news:

I have seen the prototypes for the products that Playful Promises are using my illustrations for and they look really amazing! They will be officially released later in 2012. I can't reveal anything else until that time.

My blog has hit well over 10,000 views from all over the world! Hopefully I'll get the chance to do a bit of an art giveaway in the new year to celebrate. :)

I'm still very very busy with my job and studies, but hopefully, I'll have some more artwork to share with you in the new year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to all of you!

Photos

2011-10-15T04:56:00.000-07:00

The last few months have been rather busy and stressful for me. I don't have as much time to draw at the moment! I thought I would share some photos I took using the instagr.am app on my phone.

I have been informed that my images for Playful Promises have been sent off and are likely to be released next year. I'll keep you updated.

I hope to try and get some more drawings and paintings done soon!

CL - I am the Best

2011-09-25T12:17:00.000-07:00

The images for 'Playful Promises' are done. I hope it won't be too many months before I can reveal the final results. :)

For now though, here is a drawing a made a few months ago of 'CL' leader of the Korean girl group 2NE1.

I haven't got much other work to show at this point. My life is filled up with other things right now, like a new job and a Postgraduate University course. I don't have much time for painting, but hopefully once I get the hang of all this coursework I'll have some more time to paint again.

Playful Promises Teaser 4

2011-08-31T13:22:00.000-07:00

Teaser number 4 of my work for 'Playful Promises'

It's nearly all completed, only a few more finishing touches to do and to edit!

One member of staff at Playful Promises is the extremely talented and gorgeous Anna Swiczeniuk who is also my dear friend and was my housemate for 2 years.

Check out her photography, modeling and Marketing work for Playful Promises on her:

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Blog

Also the boutique is having a tumblr giveaway where you can win £100 worth of goods! go here to see how to win!

Playful Promises Teaser 3

2011-08-26T04:35:00.000-07:00

Teaser number 3 of my work for 'Playful Promises'

more to come soon!

(Oh and if you found this blog through a website called 'Gothise.com', please contact me somehow and let me know where exactly the link has been posted. I am not a member of the site and I can't seem to figure out why I am getting so many hits from there! I'd like to know who or what is promoting me. Thank you! )

Playful Promises TEASER 2

2011-08-20T08:12:00.000-07:00

Another teaser of my work for 'Playful Promises'

Once again, this 'teaser' artwork is not necessarily final and might end up being changed, edited throughout the project.

These sketches are just bases for the inking and painting that is the next step of the process.

more to come soon!

Playful Promises TEASER

2011-08-17T07:14:00.000-07:00

In my last update here I mentioned I was doing some artwork for 'Playful Promises'

Now the deadline is a pretty quick one, so for the last couple of days I have been getting some ideas down and starting some preliminary sketches.

(A big thank you to my friend Fabianna who helped me by agreeing to pose for me for some reference)

Here's a small teaser of just some of the stuff I've been doing:

'Playful Promises' Teaser

Of course, not all this 'teaser' artwork is not necessarily final and might end up being changed, edited, or scrapped altogether during the process with the client, but once the project is finished, I can show you all the artwork fully, and anything that was taken out as a bonus.

More teasers to come soon!

Playful Promises

2011-08-14T03:33:00.000-07:00

I am very excited to say that I have recently been asked to produce some artwork for 'Playful Promises' who describe themselves as 'A London-designed brand which mixes quirky, directional design with all things playful, flirty, and even a little bit dirty. Our sumptuous collections consist of corsets, bras and panties, quirky gifts and swimwear.'

I am not going to reveal any final artwork until they have officially released it themselves and the project is completed, but I will be able to tease you with some work in progress through the duration of the project.

The theme of the project is currently a secret!

They really do sell some amazing products and are managed by some lovely people too!
so check out the links below.

Website & Online Shop

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Their boutique is found at:

136 Bethnal Green Road

London

E2 6DG

Cynotia 'I would fly'

2011-08-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of the year I posted some artwork I made for my friends band Cynotia
Their CDs have been printed featuring my artwork and they look great! Well done to the band who have been doing loads of gigs and working hard to promote themselves and create their merchandise.

Cynotia's music is available to listen to on their website and you can buy their new CD or download their music there too. Thank you to the band as well for my copy of the album! :)

In other news: I would like to point you in the direction of the creations of Miss Saffron Sugar who is running a contest at the moment where you can win one of her beautiful creations.

http://starchildbysaffron.tumblr.com/

please visit her blog and the tumblr address above for details and your chance to win! :D

Lady Gaga 'Drawn This Way' and 'Free as my Hair'

2011-07-24T14:41:00.000-07:00

This month I have entered VMagazine's 'Drawn This Way' contest!

Here is my entry:

Not sure when the winners are being announced but I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Whilst we are on the subject of Lady Gaga, I also have been slowly building up this image of Lady Gaga's hairstyles, inspired by her song 'Hair' from her album 'Born this way'.

It's sort of an endless project, as I've only got up to a certain point (plus I need to go back and add more that I've missed in-between!) and Lady Gaga changes her hair nearly everyday, so this can go on and on! These styles are in as best chronological order as I can get them (I hope!) I had to research a lot to try and get them in them right.

These only go up to mid June this year, I have so many more to add just from the last few weeks, I better get a move on!

Stinging Netil Art Mart

2011-07-24T06:44:00.000-07:00

Here are a few photos from the Art Market that I went to a few weeks ago in Hackney London where I shared a stall with some friends. It was a lovely sunny day and there were some lovely artists around with some great artwork on show.

Our stall featuring artwork by myself, Lucy Wragg, Sean Burtenshaw, Elenor Bedlow and Carne Griffiths

I still have some A4/ A5 prints and postcards available to buy of my Japanese Street Fashion, Lady Gaga, Alice in Wonderland and 2NE1 paintings/drawings.

I will probably be setting up an 'etsy' selling account soon so that its easier for people to order them.

The Stinging Netil Art Mart, London

2011-07-09T04:57:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow (Sunday 10th of July) I will be at the'Stinging Netil Art Market' in Hackney London selling some ltd. edition prints and postcards of my Japanese street fashion, Lady Gaga, 2NE1 and Pin-up inspired artwork.
I will be on a stall with the lovely Lucy Wragg, Sean Burtenshaw and Elenor Bedlow who were also exhibiting with me in SORTED London last month.

so if you can, come along! it looks as if there is going to be lots of great artsy things going on! :)

Preparing everything!

Sadly, one lot of prints I ordered, despite me paying a lot of money for special delivery, have not turned up. This is very disappointing and annoying but I will make do with what I have already. I'm sure it will be enough. :)

Fashion Illustrations for Amelia's magazine

2011-07-03T07:01:00.000-07:00

A few weeks back I did two fashion Illustrations for Amelia's magazine which you can see in this article here: Royal College of Art: Fashion Design Graduate Show 2011 review. Womenswear

here are the two images:

Philipp Schueller collection

Sarah Seaton-Burridge collection

SORTED London exhibition, Japanese Street fashion paintings

2011-06-16T11:54:00.000-07:00

SORTED London is now finished!

It was a bit sad to take it all down, but due to its huge success the participating artists are already thinking about SORTED part 2!

So, for those of you not near London or even in the UK, This blog post is to show the work that was on show.

Here are the ink paintings that I was showing, inspired by the 'street snap' photography of Japanese fashion magazine 'KERA'. One image features 2 of the fabulous amazingly bright and colourful ladies of 6%DokiDoki, a fashion brand created by Sebastian Masuda. (6th image down)

The Art on show at SORTED London

Eleanor Bedlow showed her large and amazingly detailed pencil drawings which must have taken such time and dedication.

Sean Burtenshaw had made some awesome 3D paintings of celebrities with hair, eyelashes and clothes and paint. My favourite was Lady Gaga who also had a real umbrella!

Jo Cheung had a series of beautiful prints of animals including polar bears, penguins, wolves and owls. My favourite were the cute penguins with hearts on their belly. (Jo Cheung has posted lots of great photos HERE on her flickr)

Lucy Wragg displayed two different sets of paintings One of various celebrities in comedy. She even got Matt Berry to come and see her painting. Check out the photo of her and him on her Blog. Her other set was a great play on type on packaging including my favourite, a Marmite jar with 'F*ck yeah' on the label.

Chetan Kumar displayed 3 images with lots of colourful and drawings within them. They include objects, food and statues inspired by his travels.

Carne Griffiths exhibited 4 stunning and expressive paintings of people merging with plants made with inks and tea. He also showed some lightbox pieces.

Thomas Leadbetter developed a way of showing music as a series of triangle shapes and colours for our degree show last year, At SORTED his triangle system represented children's 'rounds' such as 'row your boat' and 'London's Burning'.

Emma Cowley displayed 5 detailed and colourful drawings of birds and flowers, and one drawing included a tiny woman in a cage surrounded by birds, or perhaps it was normal sized woman and giant birds?

Rosie Smith has a great sense of humor showing some amazing collages of paper, fabric, drawings and real pressed flowers. One image included a Cat declaring how much they love 'Big Tits' whilst watching some blue tits in a tree. She also displayed some detailed pencil drawings of London landmarks.

(Please visit the blogs and websites of the other artists. Most of them have their work in more detail to see there)

My artwork on the wall at the exhibition

I have some prints of my Japanese fashion paintings left over from the show to sell. These are high quality A4 prints on somerset enhanced stain paper 225gsm. £20 is the starting price with free shipping anywhere in the world. I also have postcards on sale which are professionally printed and are only £1 each, again with free shipping anywhere. Please contact me if you're interested.

The SORTED crew

For more info on SORTED please visit the other artists blogs and websites.

SORTED London exhibition Private view

2011-06-11T09:37:00.000-07:00

The crowds inside and outside the gallery

On the 9th of June at East Gallery in Brick lane London, The 'SORTED' exhibition had its private view and opening night. Having got a mention by grafikmag andAmelia's Magazine amoung others before the opening night, There was an AMAZING turn out and the whole gallery was buzzing with a fantastic atmosphere! for most of the night there were SO many people the crowds spilled out onto the streets.

Our little SORTED finch on a sign outside

The Exhibition features work by Myself/ Chetan Kumar/ Carne Griffiths/ Sean Burtenshaw/ Lucy Wragg/ Emma Cowley/ Jo Cheung/ Eleanor Bedlow/ Thomas Leadbetter/ Rosie Smith

Everybody was enjoying themselves, although at times, it did get a little warm and hectic as we rushed to make sure everybody had a drink, and tried to maintain records of the sales of artwork and prints!

It was such a huge success and we've had lovely reviews including one from Amelia's magazine (where you can see a photo of me standing by the door looking a bit crazy as I was in a bit of a panic trying to get hold of someone! lol)

The exhibition even managed to attract a celebrity! One of the artists Lucy Wragg (who is also my old classmate and friend as well as the organiser of this exhibition) was exhibiting a painting of Matt Berry from The IT crowd and The Mighty Boosh (among other shows) and he came along to the exhibit to see the artwork!

Matt Berry checks out our art

On the right is my sneaky photo I took of him in the gallery! He even tweeted about the show and had his photo taken next to Lucy and the painting she did of him.

I am so happy and proud. All the artists in this exhibition have worked really hard to create a vibrant, varied and exciting exhibition (even if I do say so myself. lol!) But don't just take my word for it, go see it of you can! Not to mention there is an amazing bagel and cake shop opposite the gallery which is a perfect post exhibition viewing snack!

Sneak peek!

Here's a tiny sneak preview of just some of the work on show:

I will post again when the exhibition is over with more photos of the work on show when it has finished. Until then, if you can see it, head down to East Gallery on Brick Lane and check it out! It's showing until the 15th of June open all day from 10.30 - 8.30.

SORTED website

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Here's a photo taken of us artists involved by Amelia Gregory at the end of a rather busy, warm but fantastic evening!

The SORTED crew!

SORTED London

2011-06-06T15:46:00.000-07:00

Here is just one of the paintings I will be exhibiting next week in the SORTED London exhibition in East Gallery on Brick Lane from June 9th to June 15th.

All the paintings I am showing are influenced and inspired by Japanese street fashion and the vibrant images in KERA magazine (A Japanese alternative fashion magazine with a huge focus on street fashion) Our exhibition has been mentioned by a few art blogs, including by the lovely Amelia Gregory of Amelia's Magazine which you can see HERE.

Our website has had just over 2000 views which is great! :D

http://www.sortedlondon.com/

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Very excited about the show, a little nervous too, crossing my fingers that everything runs smoothly and there are no last minute problems. (like me discovering this afternoon my picture hooks are the wrong size! lol)

By the way, if you don't already, you can follow me on Twitter, Tumblr or DA

:) thank you!

2011-05-30T14:04:00.000-07:00

Here's a random painting for you inspired by my love of pin up and burlesque and another reminder about the SORTED London exhibition coming up very very soon! (This painting will not be in the exhibition)

I've seen the work of other artists as our catalogue is being made and I have got to say, These artists are amazing and it looks as if its going to be a dynamic, interesting and fun exhibition. (I guess i am biased though eh? lol) So on behalf of all the artists involved:

Chetan Kumar/ Carne Griffiths/ Sean Burtenshaw/ Lucy Wragg/ Emma Cowley/ Jo Cheung/ Eleanor Bedlow/ Thomas Leadbetter/ Rosie Smith and Myself, we invite you to pop in if you can!

9th- 15th June, East Gallery Brick lane, more details here:

http://www.sortedlondon.com/

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Sorted London and Lady Gaga

2011-05-18T03:48:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder, the SORTED exhibition in London is coming up soon! There is a slight

CHANGE OF DATE. The exhibition will now be running from the 9th until the 15th of June, not the 16th.

I will be exhibiting 8 paintings inspired by Japanese street fashion. There are other amazing artists in the exhibition displaying work related to many different topics and in different styles so if you can, come along and have a look.

http://www.sortedlondon.com/

Twitter: SORTEDlondon

In other news I am excited about the release of Lady Gaga's new album 'Born this way' out on Monday the 23rd of May. Here are two paintings I made inspired by the songs 'Judas' and 'Government Hooker'.

2011-04-22T10:43:00.000-07:00

Here's a preview of some work that I will be showing in an Exhibition in June in Brick lane in London from June 9th- June 16th. I will be exhibiting along with some other amazing artists/ Illustrators. I also have a new set of business cards being made featuring my more recent work.

I think I'll post up the full paintings up after the exhibition, along with some photos of the event.

My personal theme for my work was my interest in the colourful and eccentric world of Japanese street fashion, but the other artists all have their own themes and ideas.

The exhibition will also feature:

Chetan Kumar/ Carne Griffiths/ Sean Burtenshaw/ Lucy Wragg/ Emma Cowley/ Jo Cheung/ Eleanor Bedlow/ Thomas Leadbetter/ Rosie Smith

Exhibition, 'SORTED'

2011-04-16T13:09:00.000-07:00

'SORTED' London exhibition Featuring:

Katie Woodger/ Chetan Kumar/ Carne Griffiths/ Sean Burtenshaw/ Lucy Wragg/ Emma Cowley/ Jo Cheung/ Eleanor Bedlow/ Thomas Leadbetter/ Rosie Smith

Gaga Fan Corner.com

2011-03-31T05:37:00.001-07:00

As part of gagadaily.com/ a new website has been launched:

gagafancorner

It has only just opened and it currently features my artwork (I originally posted about this project here)
It's a site for fans to submit and share projects that have been inspired or made for Lady Gaga so I am certain it will grow in the future.

You call also follow gagafancorner on:
Twitter
Facebook

A big thank you to Kirill of gagadaily and the other staff members for giving me this opportunity.

2NE1

2011-03-13T15:40:00.001-07:00

Various artwork I have made over the last few months of Korean girl group 2NE1. Just for fun.

('I got that thang thang, if you know what i mean, it goes 'bang bang', you can't handle it')

('Many style from A to Z, Jeremy Scott, Givenchy, B*tch you aint got Sh*t on me'')

('Don't stop the music')

('coz I'm so bad bad but I'm so good good')

Cynotia artwork

2011-02-16T12:03:00.000-08:00

The band 'Cynotia' who I did some other artwork for in this post also commissioned me to do a portrait of each band member.
So here they are!

The bands site is now up with their music so check it out!. Cynotia Website
(The band themselves built the website themselves so I take no credit for that. They also edited some of my images slightly with my permission to suit how they wanted it to look.)

A big thanks to the band for the opportunity and I'm glad they've liked what I created for them.

Valentines Day

2011-02-14T07:17:00.000-08:00

A painting of Dita Von Teese for Valentines day

'Things I buy too many of..'

2011-01-26T15:17:00.001-08:00

(click to view full size)

I think I am a bit of an impulse buyer and have a tendency to collect certain items. For example I can’t stop buying bras. lol

I think as well as adding more bras I own to this image later (I haven't drawn them all), I want to do a few more of these visual lists of 'things I buy too many of' with different stuff. I buy way too many necklaces, printed t-shirts and Nintendo/ Zelda related merchandise amoung other things that I don't really need... I just go a bit wild. lol

'I would fly' Cynotia band artwork

2011-01-17T15:24:00.000-08:00

Around 5 or 6 years ago, I made a pact with a friend. She dreamt of being a musician and I an artist. She promised me, if she ever needed artwork for her EP she would come to me for help. I said I would help.

Here I am today, not really an artist, lol, but still enjoying art, and she is in an unsigned band called 'Cynotia' studying hard. As promised, she asked me for some drawings her and her fellow band members could work with for their upcoming EP. I was more than happy to oblige.

The EP title is 'I would fly'. I was told they wanted something with a young child dreaming of flying, something quite straight forward and simple on that theme.
Below is my final image, though the band have also been given extra text, clouds and bird drawings and they will be editing them themselves as designs for their desired merchandise.

(please click to view full size)

The original image was changed as it had a far too depressing feeling to it. (image below) In this image the child was like a caged bird, sad and wanting to be free. This was a little too 'dark' for the songs the band play and so I changed the cage to a swing set, and the childs face was changed. I'm glad it was changed, the second and final image is much less oppressing!

(please click to view full size)

So a huge thank you to my Friend Liv and her band members for being patient with me :) best of luck to them and I can't wait to see what they do with it! :D

In other News....
I shall be taking part in an Exhibition in the 'East Gallery' in Brick Lane London in June this year! :D
I will be exhibiting along with some amazing ex-classmates and friends of mine.
More to come about that in the near future.

CL of 2NE1

2010-12-14T14:16:00.000-08:00

'Just try to Follow me!'

This is an image of 'CL' from the Korean girl group '2NE1' or 'To Anyone'
the outfit is from their 'Follow me' video. This was just a bit of fun and I am fasinated by this group at the moment. I enjoy their music, style and all of the members have great personalities and are very talented.
Here is a link to the music video: Follow me by 2NE1

preview of future work

2010-11-10T10:00:00.000-08:00

wow. I've been soso busy working 6 or 7 day weeks! D:
I have been finding some time to draw though, but nothing is finished yet! so here is a preview of just some of the images I've been making that will hopefully get finished before the end of this year, or early next year at the latest!
Some of this work is just for fun, others are for a friend who wants some artwork for her band.

The lady with birds in her hair

2010-10-14T02:00:00.000-07:00

I had to work on this sketch bit by bit over the course of a month or so as I was so busy working 6 or 7 day weeks. Its still not quite done. Its A3 in size, and I kind of made it up as I went along. I call her simply 'bird lady'

I am thinking about inking it and painting it, but less messy and inky than my usual portraits. I might also try to colour it digitally as well as see which one I like most. Basically this is all just one big experiment.

(oh and I have some more pictures still on the go at the moment. I keep jumping from one to another for some variation)

Dita Von Teese

2010-09-28T08:13:00.000-07:00

Today is the birthday of Dita Von Teese, one of my favourite celebrities and one of my ultimate fashion icons.
This image is a painting I was meant to give her when I met her at a London book signing December last year, but I became so star struck I totally forgot to hand it to her. I hope I have another chance. I haven't shared it until now. I plan to paint her even more in the future. She is such an inspiration to me.

WIP

2010-09-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

I am working on an image, inspired by the current fashion of 'Aviator jackets'. I bought a gorgeous leather one myself a week ago. It has this lovely fake fur collar and its so comfy! I have this image in mind of what I want the final image to look like, inspired by some poster art of the World war 2 era.

I haven't had much time to draw recently, I've been working a lot in various places. I also damaged my back during a gym session which makes most simple tasks very painful. I am still recovering from that.

I am finding the odd day where I have some time to draw, though there are many ideas trapped inside my head at the moment that I can't seem to find the time to get out! no rest for the wicked!

Inspiring Designers/ Artists

2010-09-10T15:30:00.000-07:00

This post is not about my own work but the work of some very inspiring and talented ladies I know.

A few weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of being able to (twice) witness the collaboration between my ex-housemate, friend and photographer Anna Swiczeniuk, aka: Aiko273 and the designer and super multitalented front-woman of the band Angelspit Amelia Arsenic aka: destroyx

These two are a huge inspiration to me and not to mention, two of the nicest and most creative people I have ever met.
This particular shoot was for Amelia's new fashion range 'A is for arsenic'

I was so delighted to be able to watch behind the scenes as the still life product shots and separate model photo-shoots were carefully set up and designed by both Anna and Amelia. The models as well were the gorgeous Nina Kate of Jane Doe Latex and her husband Stitch_D of the band The Defiled. Hair styling was by Ceri of Snarl Hair.

So go here and CHECK IT OUT!

A IS FOR ARSENIC

I even got a mention as an assistant which was far too kind of Amelia as I merely provided some fishing wire, helped hang some props up and looked on amazed as the shoots took place. lol

Also, here are some links to Amelia's other sites:

Blog:'Your daily dose of destruction'
Make-up range: http://www.miss-x.net/
Angelspit band merchandise: BlackPillRedPill
Etsy for Miss X jewelry: Miss X laboratories

(told you she was multi talented!)

Anna's portfolio is linked above and here: http://aiko273.co.uk/

A big thank you to them all for letting me help out.

Going Gaga

2010-08-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

For the last few weeks I have been working on some images for gagadaily.com, which hopefully will be used in a section of their website as part of the layout. These images are unfinished starting points, as the brief was also to give them abstract backgrounds with various paint splats and marks too.

I ended up painting loads of images, some of which weren't chosen but I still quite like. The images here, when finished will definitely be used.

I still need to get the others sorted!

Lady Gaga/ gagadaily.com

2010-07-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

'The way she moves, the way she walks....'

I am so delighted and excited! or should I say... 'So happy I could die?' ;)

I was contacted by the website owner and designer of www.gagadaily.com a very well respected and trusted Lady Gaga website which has thousands of visitors everyday, (including Lady Gaga herself at least once a week)
and I have been asked to produce some drawings/ paintings that will be used for the layout of the website.

Can't wait to get started on this! I hope it all goes well. fingers crossed!

Burlesque/ Pin up inspired

2010-07-18T14:06:00.000-07:00

sometimes the paints/inks just do the talking, more than my brain itself.....

Sketchbook images

2010-07-06T10:21:00.000-07:00

a trio of sketches from the Museum of Childhood (middle and bottom image) and the V&A museum (top image) London. More to come from this sketchbook soon.

Korean Contact Lenses

2010-06-29T13:57:00.000-07:00

I’ve been debating for a few weeks whether to buy some Korean contact lenses. (and if so, what colours! there are so many types!) This just kind of happened whilst I was thinking about it, nothing special, more of a doodle. :)

Lee Byung Hun

2010-06-27T03:15:00.000-07:00

Just trying to get back into drawing again after I've moved house so here's a portrait of Korean actor Lee Byung Hun.

Watch canvas bag

2010-06-23T13:03:00.001-07:00

'I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! no time to say hello, goodbye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!'

I made some of these canvas bags to sell at my exhibition. There a few left too incase anyone wants one ;)

Zine

2010-06-21T14:30:00.000-07:00

an example of the small Alice in Wonderland zine that I was selling at my end of year exhibition.

End of year exhibition

2010-06-19T11:04:00.000-07:00

congratulations to all the University of Westminster Illustration students who worked so hard and made our final degree exhibition a great success!

The image above is of my final work which I decided to exhibit as a small installation resembling a victorian house interior with my work on Alice in Wonderland inside some ornate frames. A small table was at the front with a tiny 'drink me' bottle on it, in keeping with the Wonderland theme. My portfolio sat on a table opposite. I was very happy to sell a couple of bags and small zines (which I shall post photos of in another update)

I am happy to have completed my degree and this project. Its definitely time for me to move on. I am currently writing a list of different topics that I want to illustrate over the next few months in order to get me producing work and improving my style. I feel it is high time my work gained some more depth and content, as I am starting to feel as if my work is getting stale.

I am excited about starting to explore my ideas and begin work as an Illustration graduate.

The Queen of Hearts- Coloured

2010-06-01T05:20:00.000-07:00

The Queen of Hearts

2010-05-27T03:39:00.000-07:00

a portrait of my Queen of hearts design

Painting the roses.... White

2010-05-24T16:46:00.000-07:00

This is an reworked version of a drawing I made right at the beginning of this project that I posted a while ago. I think its an improvement, and it now matches the style of the other Alice drawings I have done.
the old drawing is here: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4691/victorianalice2.jpg
The reason why Alice is painting the roses white is to do with the video game concept which these designs are for where Alice rebels against the Queen of hearts and paints the roses white again.

Cheshire cat

2010-05-23T17:05:00.000-07:00

here's my finished Cheshire cat. He looks more complete now with his tail.

2010-05-21T16:18:00.000-07:00

At the moment I've been working on my Alice in Wonderland project for our Degree show in June. i have been taking earlier ink drawings and re-drawing them in more detail.
I am going crazy re-drawing Alice all the time! I need to work on some new characters!

In this image, Alice grows to an enormous size, bigger than all the trees.

Alice drawing

2010-05-19T11:55:00.000-07:00

A drawing of Alice that will eventually be part of a larger illustration of Alice looking at the Cheshire cat.

Alice' fashion plate'

2010-05-07T13:20:00.000-07:00

I really wanted this image to resemble a 'Victorian fashion plate'
I think its almost there, might still need some tweaking

The cheshire cat- Work in Progress

2010-04-20T16:23:00.000-07:00

My Cheshire cat design. (He's got a monocle) :)

Drawn in inks. Again, I wanted it to have a Victorian feel to it, hense him being rather old fashioned and gentlemen like with a monocle and some fur coloured to resemle a suit, including a bow tie. He will have a fairly natural colour scheme of Dark Brown/Black and white. I had tried out many colour combinations, but in the end, I decided that a more realistic scheme was more fitting to the victorian theme, as some of the bizarre colour schemes I tried looked too strange to match the theme of the other characters.

Sadly I couldn't fit his tail on the sheet of paper I used, so I will be drawing it on another sheet soon and adding it on in photoshop. I think it would be a little cruel to leave him tailless! I also have to add some whiskers.

This cat design is also based on my own Cat 'Buttons' who sadly died back in 2007, who had fur colouring similar to this design and she has the same v-shape piece of ear missing, which I gave to the cheshire cat to make him a little quirky, even in the small details.

Queen of hearts- work in progress

2010-04-20T16:19:00.000-07:00

My Queen of hearts dress design and hair design. UNFINISHED.

The bottom strip of fabric is yet to be done, and also she has no face yet. Plus it needs to be coloured.

This was drawn in ink. I wanted it to have the feel of a victorian woodblock print.

2010-04-17T09:45:00.000-07:00

Going to see the band 'Angelspit' tonight :D

Last time I saw them was in 2007 and I'm very excited

here's a picture of their amazing front woman Amelia Arsenic aka: Destroyx that I drew a while back.

2010-04-12T12:31:00.000-07:00

so this was another business card design which I haven't actually had printed yet due to being unsure about it. I will still submit it tomorrow for my professional practice module though.

The idea behind this is that it is like a playing card, and can be read upside down too. The Queen of hearts character on this card is my OLDER design for my final project, but I think it works on the card better than my new design.

I haven't managed to find a company that will print the card with rounded edges yet though, and I don't want to have them printed and have to trim them all myself. I can't even get the edges perfect in photoshop, let alone by hand. lol

I don't have long left for my major project. At the moment I am trying so hard to make my character concept art look more 'dynamic' as my character poses are always so stiff! its very frustrating as I have this perfect image in my head of what I want the final designs to look like, but I can't seem to get them on paper.

Ideally I want my finished character designs to be a mix between a Victorian illustration and a typical game concept art. I want them to have an essence of fashion illustration, but that means I really have to try hard to make them more dynamic.

Business Cards

2010-04-04T15:33:00.000-07:00

(Business card designs. Images on Left are Front designs, images on the right are their corresponding Back designs, which happen to be the same for both cards)

I made the old paper illusion myself mixing a few different textures and tea stained papers that I made (the final outcome was an edit of about 4 of these), and then complied them with my traditional ink drawings. I wanted them to have an old Victorian feel to them.

I was going to send of some business card designs earlier, but to my dismay I realised I had edited them all wrong. I've been trying to fix them all evening and I think I've done it. I've sent these two designs off for print, only a small number, just to test to see how they look. If they look good I will order more before the show.

I also have some other designs that I want to use, which aren't quite done yet, I would finish them but its Easter Sunday and staring at photoshop all evening has made my eyes sting, regardless of how much chocolate egg I have eaten, so I will finish them tomorrow.

Hopefully by our show I will have another business card featuring the Red Queen, and one that is -not- Alice in Wonderland related, just to make sure people don't think thats all I like to draw. :)

2010-03-30T15:43:00.000-07:00

Playing around with some possible colour schemes for my character designs of the Cheshire cat and the Red Queen's hair which I have recently changed from a long loose style to a tall up-do inspired by Marie Antoinette which i feel has a more royal feel to it and is very contrasting to Alice's loose curls.

Work in progress

2010-03-26T08:19:00.000-07:00

In case anybody thought I worked in an organised manner.... well, I don't.

I work on the floor, in a corner surrounded by everything I need.

Working on my final major project currently. Got loads to get done :/

Alice in Wonderland cont.

2010-03-14T13:14:00.000-07:00

These drawings are part of a video game concept where Alice is meant to be painting the Roses white as she was rebelling against the Red Queens reign. That’s why she is not painting them red and painting them white instead, as in the games basic ideas, Red=Related to the red queen and evil and White=related to the white rabbit and good. I am also working on designs of the paint brush she is using as it is a gift the white rabbit gives to her and I want it to have a really neat design relating to the white rabbit in some way.

Alice In Wonderland

2010-03-14T13:09:00.000-07:00

Working on a project about an Alice in Wonderland game at the moment. The project direction keeps changing slightly. I am designing some characters, objects and interfaces that could be used in a computer game version of the story. I have been inspired by the traditional image of Alice and Victorian style illustrations.

I get by with a little help from my friends

2010-03-10T11:03:00.000-08:00

designs for bags

2010-03-10T05:03:00.000-08:00

I am planning some portraits to screen print onto bags. I tried out a few colour combinations. I think it would be great to have a series of bags with the same portrait but variations in colours.

Competition entry

2010-03-10T04:25:00.000-08:00

Competition entry for Dazed and Confused Magazine 'Decade Drawn Out'

where you had to re-draw an old magazine cover however you wanted.

Lady Gaga- Im a free bitch!

2010-03-10T04:19:00.000-08:00

Lady Gaga ink paintings. Just for fun! Photos of Gaga were referenced for these.

The Art of the Teese

2010-03-10T04:12:00.000-08:00

I am very interested in the art of Burlesque and vintage pin-ups. This is an older image from my second year at university. I was designing images for www.whatkatiedid.com

2010-03-10T03:58:00.000-08:00

DVD cover designs for the Vengeance trilogy films by Park Chan Wook. Please click to enlarge.

Each cover instead of showing photographic images of characters (as is very common in DVD design) I have created imagery using important objects in each film that represented a pivotal point in the plot of each respective story.

In Oldboy, the main character is released from 15 years of imprisonment and the first thing he does it eat a live octopus in a sushi bar. The vertical text in the image reads as 'Oldboy' in Korean and is made out of hammers as in one scene he is forced to fight off prison guards with only a hammer.

In Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, the main character who is deaf and mute, is driven to kidnap a small child to raise money for his sisters kidney transplant. The text is accompanied by sign language symbols relating to the main characters condition.

In Sympathy for Lady Vengeance the main character is released from prison and gets a job in a bakery, as she is very talented at making and decorating cakes. The ribbon around the cake is the films title in Korean.

2010-03-10T03:54:00.000-08:00

Inspired by the film by Park Chan Wook: 'Sympathy for Mr Vengeance'

East Asian Cinema

2010-03-10T03:46:00.000-08:00

I am a huge fan of East Asian cinema, and one of my favourite directors is Park Chan Wook, The Korean Director who directed the 'Vengeance Trilogy' which includes the films 'Oldboy', 'Sympathy for Mr Vengeance' and 'Lady Vengeance'. These ink drawings are for a project I did on these films. The Drawing above is from the film 'Oldboy'.