Scrapblog

To start this new year post I tried finding a new year quote that wasn’t a cliché, over used one like “New year, new me” which 1. No one sticks to 2. No one believes and 3. Why should you start a year by putting so much pressure for drastic change in a space of only 365 days (just because the calander changed!). About 10 webpages later and all I was left with was questioning who’s responsible for deciding  “the best 29 new year quotes”, and why? Even if some are pretty funny, but still. Anyway, in a change of direction I then searched up bee quotes, to try and stay relevant to the bee illustration below. After only one 1 website (thank you bees), I found this: “Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still”. It turns  out that bee quotes make better quotes to think about at the start of a new year than any of these soul finding ones. I won’t analyse the quote because it will mean different things to different people, but I like it.  While still ...

Finding old pieces of artwork used to be one of my least favourite things to do as naturally, after time passes, the work you thought was okay now looks unfinished and flawed. Although old work is not so pleasing to look at, it reminds you of the incentive you had at the time. Despite being an “old” idea, sometimes it ends up being the refresh that’s needed. These weird looking illustrations were simply made to be space fillers due to having a short amount of time and blank pages to fill. During this time any idea I had in my head I had to create. I couldn't really afford to doubt them otherwise nothing would get done; ideas would become stationary and pages remain empty. I think that's what I needed a reminder to do more of.  These are some photos I found on my camera roll from my A-level sketchbook for what was my first attempt of digital art. It began with the bottom left painting (acrylic) of an X-ray of a chick foetus which was then scanned a...