Artist Research - Lizzie Stewart.

(I hope I'm allowed to put these gorgeous drawing on here! Eek!)
Lizzie Stewart is a London based free lance illustrator, her work is inspired from folk music, in depth literature and the sights and sounds and smells around here.

The few images I've collected here show her difference of work between medias. Her more realistic bleak pencil/ graphite drawings and then the more fun, upbeat colourful spot illustrations. As in this project I am looking at my hometown, these have some inspiring resemblance to things I would like to develop further in my own work.

I found a great article here;
http://1granary.com/central-saint-martins-fashion/graduates/lizzy-stewart/#more-5540
Where she goes more in depth about her influences and work ethics. Great read!

13.03.13

Today's work. Quite a slow day but this is my average pace when I'm just starting. These are a few of the pages I painted today. Trying to experiment with painting a lot faster so the longest I take on one of these is 15 minutes (max) looks more like cabin en houses at the moment. Don't think things will start getting juicy until I get back to Stilton and do more first hand drawing and then work from those. Quite like the random ovals of colour to give a bit of mood and atmosphere, but I don't think how dark they are and the black ink give the tone I'm looking for. More development needed.

P.s here's another lovely pattern I found today.

The World of Pinterest.

Hello again! So soon I know but just thought I,d let all know that most of my artist research is done on good old Pinterest!

My Page:
https://pinterest.com/hazydayss/

GO over and have a browse (if there's other sneaky students reading this feel free to take any of them for your own artist research!) I'll b doing the bulk of my researching over there and then take significant artists into more depth over here! (Aaaaaand breathe rachel)

Fresh new beginnings for BA6!

Oh dear, hello again. Well this looks like a bad start doesn't it? My intentions with the last project to keep a update on my project didn't go so well, BUT hopefully my plan this term is to keep EVERYTHING on here, and I mean everything! Since the last project I've acquired an iPad, so I'm hoping this makes the whole thing a lot smoother. So, here's my hopeful list on what is to appear.

- progress on my work and updates on the development of the project.
- (a big change to the way i normally work) artist/illustrators I've found this week and some more in depth artist research.
- MAYBE contextual research. Now I personally think this is the mot boring thing to do (and most likely read) on earth BUT the marking gods wish to punish us for having such great fun doing everything else.

Right there are my goals, I've written them down now so no going back! It also is published true to time so I'll be pressured to write something here every few days. I don't see how I can't stop and do a quick post every time I have a coffee? Surely? (Famous last words)

P.s here's a gorgeous pattern to looks at to make up for all the crappy writing!

A Day at a Castle.

Well hello there again!

Another update, i have made a little vlog and i will be putting up but due to long days spent on this project, i really don't feel like coming home and editing them so they might be a weekend thing.

Yesterday, the plan was to go people watching around norwich, after having a short crit at uni, i decided that i wanted to get a better grasp on first hand drawing people so i creepily went round staring at people in dark corners of coffee shops. After a few hours of this i realised i was getting the same slouched over poses of people over their mugs, so brainwaves hit to go the museum and follow people.

Sadly when we got there, it was completely empty, but serendipitously there was an amazing special event exhibition on that i loved! Really gave me some great portrait artists to look more into.

En route to the castle, so dark and gloomy winter that it looks like twilight nightfall! (it was actually 1pm lol)

Big ol' Castle.

Really sneaky snap of the first hand drawings Cedric Morris had of figures.

This has absoutely nothing to do with my project but look how pretty! (The frame is almost as gorgeous as the painting) 

People watching moody christmas shoppers.

Sleepy cafe lady.

Trying to have a go at tone in my drawings, this is a figure from a Cedric Morris painting, did the original absolutely no justice, i think the word i'm looking for is "butchered". 

Creative Space.

This is my desk, its having dual use at the moment as creative space and make-up dresser, and yes staring at yourself all day in the mirror is really off putting so i usually end up throwing it on the floor. (Ooooh you can see my throw in the mirror lol)

Well hello again!

Hello again lovely people!

i am back with a vengeance!

but, with a slightly different thing goin on'

This, will now be my new reflective journal for my Illustration degree, so sorry, probably no more cringey selfies as often.

Im going all in on this project guys, and im hoping this will keep me on track.

So! i write this on Saturday the 8th of December and i kinda sorta only officially started my project today (so things are already going well...)

here my upkeep on what ive done today! (oo what a lovely screen cap -_-)

As i sorta showed at the end of the vlog, i did some doodles today, heres the instagrams of a select few:




Its now late and im tired from trying to work out imovie, hopefully i'll get better at this.
update you soon!