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In the art of true procrastination, here’s an illustration I did last month for my mum’s birthday posted live from the silent zone of the library, and if I told you that this was an illustration of a mountain I like to hope that it wouldn’t be too hard to believe. I sadly don’t have any photos on my camera of it to compare/enlighten, but luckily the internet has plenty (Name: Craig y Deryn).  Although only small, this is probably one of my favourite views from home and right now is something I’d much rather be seeing than 5 caffeine fuelled planning documents on molecular bilology. 

Before getting into what this post content is about, first is a little self-reminder. Recently I decided to go back to read my first post on here,  and from it stemmed a new wave of motivation, reminding myself that this a place of posting freely - as first intended. Anway.  I’m writing this on here as by sharing this commitment I’m making,  it’s more likely that I’ll actually stick to it. So step one is to draw/photograph one thing every week or two, just to be a bit more realistic, and post it. (Edit from future me: so far this is not going so well!) Now that’s out the way, below are some photographs I took from a trip to Manchester two weekends ago. This was my first time visiting here properly, hence activating tourist mode and taking many pictures. New places are a chance to be re-inspired, and in the midst of a constant stream of people rushing about were some colorful street art and interesting city buildings. The notes section of my phone is u...

This post is a little different to the others because there’s no actual illustration attached. Que the back story that wasn’t asked for, but the current situation I have includes a collection of unfinished drawings that I really want to finish and post, but my laptop is currently being fixed and I have stupidly left my illustration pen in uni. Therefore, for now here’s a bit of photography from a time we came across a field of hay bales and cute flowers on a walk near uni. I want to start doing quicker posts for when I have a bit of a creative mind block so maybe there’ll be more of these once I learn to work my camera a little better. Without any further rambling, (for now) please admire the hay. (Please overlook the lowered photo quality from uploading onto here). Photos taken near Heslington, York. 

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...

I remember reading somewhere that if you ever get stuck on writing something the best thing to do is to write the type of thing you’d like to read. Therefore  (just as a little pre-warning) , this is the approach I'm going for in this post. At the moment I keep seeing posts on Instagram where the picture is typography of excerpts from books and articles written by small name authors. Although these are pretty hit and miss, I actually really enjoy reading them anyway. Whether or not you take anything from them you get the opportunity to read someone's thoughts/creations. U nlike bigger authors, they don't have as much of a pressure to keep up to a certain standard, and what they write often comes off a lot more raw and free-spirited which I always find refreshing. So, if this was one of those " excerpts that I never wrote" type of posts, the question when writing it would be what would I say? And consequently, what would I like to read?  Consider this a dear...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. - Carl Jung This quote is really as simple and pointless or as deep and meaningful as you want to make it, but as far as perspective goes it is relevant to pretty much everything you see and experience.  Here are two biro drawings I drew on holiday (scanned and then coloured in using the Microsoft Sketchbook app) and the photos of the places taken on my phone that got me thinking about this more. Alone, each of the drawings give a one-point perception. They comprise of small sections of the view from where I was sitting at the time drawn onto a tiny piece of paper,  blending what my eyes saw in the surroundings as well as part of my imagination- with each visual object squished to smaller dimensions and proportions. The second-point perception is the photographs provided below that were taken by a phone camera, the more "reliable" one perhaps. However, even...