Thursday, 23 November 2017

pp: research - linzie hunter



Linzie Hunter is an illustrator who currently lives in South London. She specialises in typography and children's illustration. Her work is very inspiring to me as someone who is really interested in both of these fields. Her work is fun and colourful. Although she does not write children's books herself, she has illustrated one (which is how i found her!) called 'If You Had A Jetpack'. Her illustrations are adorable and whimsical, from this book most of them different types of animals. I am especially interested in the way that she utilises coloured pencil and digital works, as someone who really loves the coloured pencil medium.

She unfortunately does not take student emails as she is too busy.

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

pp: my identity

I have been known as @scribbleblog for so long i don't even know who i am anymore. i want a change, but what to?

i don't like the name Bethany, i think the capital letter B is really ugly (don't really have a reason for that, just personal preference) and i in general just don't really like my name. 

i have this joke that i play on people sometimes when they ask what 'beth' is short for, and i like to tell them it's Elizabeth. i don't know what it is about that name but it just feels more professional and fancy, like i'm an actual adult. 

because i've been known to do this joke so often and got so attached to the name i think i am going to change my identity as a professional to Elizabeth Faye. (Faye is my middle name)

i really love this name and think that it's the beginning of me finally become a professional illustrator.

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

pp: self portrait #1


here is my first self portrait. i wanted to play on the idea of doing a self portrait without using my actual face or identifiers of my face, so i decided to go with what i sometimes call myself 'egg-head'. this is mostly because i think that i have a really egg shaped head, my forehead doesn't have any shape or widow's peak, and my skin is deathly pale, so yep, that's an egg.

i think it's really cute, and i decided to try out using more digital means, utilising my new gouache brushes from Kyle Webster which i really love. it's a little bit of a different style for me but i still like it.

Tuesday, 10 October 2017

pp: thought bubble festival





 i helped out at thought bubble festival in september 2018! i know it was last month but i wanted to talk about it because it was such a fun and new experience. it was really fun to experience what it is like to sell my work and talk to people about my work, and see how many people actually bought it! so many people might have my posters on their wall now! it's a really good feeling and something that
i'd really love to do in the future. it also taught me about handling money from customers and making sure they were given the right change. from the day that i sat behind the booth, i got a sense of what people tended to buy more and the posters & smaller items like stickers and buttons sold a lot more than the bigger more expensive items so i should keep this in mind if i was to do something like this again in the future.