K-POP aka: Korean Pop music

I've been working very hard recently on coursework for my postgraduate degree and my final assessment is next week! I had to do 17 hours of coursework this weekend which was exhausting!

So this evening I opened a few abandoned drawings from last year and threw them together in this edit just for fun :)

I should really add a male representative of K-pop to the image but I didn't have an existing drawing.
I don't have time to draw one right now, so maybe I'll add one at a later date when I have time to paint.

I also realised I never posted these paintings of Minzy from 2NE1 on my blog

and here is some of my 2NE1 fanart in a book that was made by EROMAKNAE and given to 2NE1 themselves! Here is on example page with my art on:

CL - I am the Best

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. It was just for fun! Based on stills from the music video. YGFamily always have the best MVs and stylists! 

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.

Cynotia 'I would fly'

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'

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!

Gaga Fan Corner.com

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

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

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.

'I would fly' Cynotia band artwork

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.

Lady Gaga/ gagadaily.com

'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!

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.