living inside a cake

There was once an old woman who lived in a shoe,

she had so many children she didn't know what to do,

so she packed up her clothes and her bath and her bed,

and went to live in a cake-house instead.

I've always wanted to do a cut-through drawing of a house. I made the stars and chandeliers all sparkly but you can't tell from this scan.

Hampton Court Palace

The other day we went to Hampton Court Palace to see my sisters Godmother. I was amazed by the gardens. They were so neat and square. The trees were like like plasticine shapes.I had a go at drawing the Palace:This is my sisters Godmother. We had a picnic. It was verrrr nice :)

The Fairy Melusina

Its been ages but i've been ill for two weeks and now I am drowning in the amount of work i have to do.

Sue told me to fill a whole book of just people and faces for one of my final pieces for the recession project. It's because I really need to work on drawing faces and giving them actual character instead of just identical blank expressions which is what I usually do!

This is one of my favourite ones I did:
it's drawn from a random photograph that I found on deviant art.

Anyway we are doing different projects now. We have three to do in 6 weeks!!! I have written a book and am illustrating it for one of the projects which is quite scary because I literally have SO much work to do. I am painting the second picture for it now. (only the second! eek) It has taken me all day so far and I feel really nervous about how it is going to turn out.

My book involves a tattoo studio and so for research I went to Shades of Grey which is a tattoo studio in Hitchin and asked if I could draw while the guy worked. The lady in there had pink hair! It made me miss having pink hair :(
I think being a tattooist would be quite cool but I would never have the confidence to put a needle in someones skin without being worried about making a mistake.

Theses are designs for the three characters in the story:
This is Mrs Needleskin. She runs the Tattoo parlour with her husband Mr Needleskin (below). They are quite old as you can see but this means that they are very good at their job and people come from far and wide to get tattoos from Mr and Mrs Needleskin.
And THIS is the Fairy called Melusina who lives in a cardboard castle in Mr and Mrs Needlekins attic at the top of their tall creepy house and causes CHAOS.
It's only a kind of rough drawing of her. I want to improve her and obviously make her wings look better and things. Also she will be wearing clothes. I just haven't decided what yet so I didnt draw them.

Adventure to London

This was a fun, tiring, random, nightmarish day. Lots of things went wrong but we kept smiling :) Erin and I went up to London to see Tracy Chapman. She lost her ticket, spilt her drink, was sick, we got on the wrong train TWICE, visited Emily and got the first train home this morning at 5.22 after NO sleep. Then Erin still had to go to work (lifeguarding) at 6.30! I drew all this while Emily and Erin slept for about an hour. I didn't see the point of sleeping especially when someone had to keep awake so that we didn't miss the train. I enjoyed walking through Hitchin at 6 o clock this morning. I was surprised at how many people were around! I wish I was a morning person. Then I could get up really early and do lots of stuff. Ha but that is wishful thinking. i CRASHED when I got home and slept for most of the day :S

I drew this on the way home^ It was a very empty train. I think I might use this for the Christmas project.

Also my phone broke and so I took it into the vodafone shop where Alfie works and he kindly took it home and fixed it for me. When I went to collect it the next day he said 'I opened it up and it was FULL of GLITTER!'

Illustration City!

This was so cool! Some people even made cars and street signs and there was a tramp and a garden with a camp fire and a tent! Looking inside the houses was really fun too.
I especially liked this one^ I don’t know whos it is though so I hope they don’t mind me putting it on here.
I also really liked this one^ because it looed like an actual PROPER miniature apartment. Really realistic with the carpet and the lamp and everything. I THINK it was made by someone called Natalie in 3rd yr but I’m not sure…
Yet again I do not know who made this one ^ but I liked it! The same goes for this one:
Can't remember who did this one either but it is really cute:
I t was a shame that the fairylights in my apartment did not show up because the light was too bright in the room but never mind.

Rob Shadbolt did a kind of leaving speech and said it’s going to be weird for us next year because they probably wont get a replacement for him until the summer so they are going to have to share the tutors round more :S. He also told us to judge our work against the professionals and aim high and to think outside the artschool cos its a small world.

Anyway tomorrow is the last day of term and I am going to go Christmas shopping to take advantage of Norwich and the better shops that are here before I go home on Sunday!