Yay!
Apparently it’s not so bad to shop at H&M!
I worried about their manufacturing policys.
Their clothes are SO cute and SO cheap, that I often overlook my morals and snap up whatever I can, trying hard not to look at the “made in Cambodia” tag.
Now I feel better.
I just found the single most awsome site ever for very NOW free fonts.
They’re scratchy, rough, lo-fi and slightly gothic (but in that modern Mark Jacobs by way of the Arcade Fire kinda way). Basically, they are some of the most beautiful free indie fonts I’ve ever seen.
They can be found at misprinted type. The site is absolutely gorgeous too.
Thank me later.
I think I’ve finally found the trick to the whole drawing thing.
Number One: No distractions. With no boyfriend around I have no choice but to pick up a pen.
Number Two: No projects. With no paying clients lying about, I actually feel like drawing, for myself in the non-digital realm.
I’ve actually managed to pick up a pen and brush and do some sketching. I do quite like that process coloured gouache I bought for myself a while back. Not only is it incredibly vibrantly coloured (I’ve never been one for earth tones) I can fill a palette with paint, let it dry out, then go back to it later, add a little water to it and use it all over again.
I’ve become so used to the annoying lenghty prep work I’ve been taught when it comes to liquid watercolours, that this is quite a revelation.
Then of course there is the fact that the paints can be used translucently, or opaquely, which is quite nice.
It just seems like there are less limits on the stuff. It’s awesome for someone who’s been so rigidly, classically trained like me. It feels like the first time I discovered Adobe Illustrator.
By the By:
If you know me in person, take me out and do something with me this long weekend. Liam has gone all the way home to Thunder Bay till Tuesday, and I am driving my cat crazy. She keeps telling me to “get out of the house and do something,” anyone wanna help me out there?
I am not a sporty girl. I’m just not, and never have been. So since Illustration Friday’s topic this week is sports, I’m gonna use an illustration whose concept was assigned to me by the sports desk when I worked at the Brock Press, and subsequently published. So it’s not new. Again.
But it’s still pretty neat, and it’s a work I’m really proud of. I think it is both kinda pretty, and fun for an infographic (which can be notoriously stodgy and boring - pie chart anyone? How about a line graph? No? Really?).
Although I am definitely not as much an expert as Annie Bissett. I personally think she’s awesome.
Then again, that one up there is an older illustration. I must’ve completed it a good few months ago, and my style is growing and changing by leaps and bounds. Maybe I could have reached true infographic nirvana back then, if I knew what I know now about texture.