30 Day Drawing Challenge: Days 14 - 16

I'm still beavering away with this drawing challenge! As the title would suggest I'm gonna show you days 14 to yesterday (day 16).

Day 14's challenge was to draw my favourite fairytale. This is a fairly abstract representation of the fairytale I chose (but then it's also a pretty abstract fairytale). I would encourage you to comment if u know where this sentence comes from :)

I don't generally have the patience required for drawing great portraits so I decided to take a different approach to the challenge on day 15. Here is a portrait of my family according to the Chinese Zodiac.

If you're wondering who's who I'm not gonna tell u! But you're welcome to guess ;)
I'll even help by telling u which members of my family are pictured here. Me, my Mum, Dad, Brother, Sister and Granny.

Moving on. Yesterday's challenge was tricky. I had to draw inspiration. This concept had me confused because I'm pretty accustomed to drawing from inspiration but I wasn't entirely sure how to go about drawing inspiration itself. In the end I figured that colour was my only constant source of inspiration and went with that!

Today's drawing is my favourite plant but since I haven't figured out exactly what that is yet I'm gonna close this post to go think about it. I'll leave u instead with a picture of the Christmas cookies my clever boyfriend made!

Mark Making- Recreating Carlos Miele

As you may know I have difficulty publishing some of my freelance work due to a lot of legal mumbo jumbo. Consequently I have to be a touch more creative with how I show my fashion prints. Today I had a cunning plan!

Carlos Mieles's Spring Collection is my inspiration this week. Here are some of my favourites,

Reinterpreting these has proved a little trickier than I had first anticipated. It's really easy when using Photoshop to make designs look overly digital and lose the organic sense that comes with hand painted designs.

After several failed attempts to recreate these shapes I finally found something that works! AND it's great fun!!

A little scanning and some Photoshop later I've got my design for the day! Here's a sample......

Thanks for reading!!

Gothic Romance

On Thursday we got lost on our way to the Politecnico; having been spoiled by the car journey on our initial visit none of us could remember where it was!! when we finally arrived we got a chance to present our work to the rest of the people in our group. It was great since none of us could be bothered to do this in an uncontrolled environment and without the aid of a powerpoint presentation. Here is a photo that the people concerned didn't want me to post........

Tough luck guys!

Naturally after such gruelling work a break is necessary...........

Sarah's facial expressions are classic....must remember to dedicate a post to her

After our light lunch we were taken back to the Accademia Galli to work on our swimwear :)

Dad often compares textiles design to school, well nothing makes u feel more schooly than poster paints and crepe paper! I'm not quite sure any of us were expecting this after watching the slick professional presentation the day before! still we pressed on and i think we did the materials justice.........

 yea.......these are pretty bad and i'm guessing the organisers agreed as i heard one of them likening them to Neil Buchanan's Art Attack.........shocking...........

............oh well..........