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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 is a bit of a late post as these photos were taken all the way back in October. Here features some photography of the very pretty streets of Edinburgh with a vintage camera effect, and an illustration made by drawing an outline onto paper then scanning it onto the computer  to colour using the sketckbook Microsoft app. 

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. 

Here lies a piece of procrastination painting that I've been going back to every once in a while to complete and now that summer is finished, so is this. This digital painting started following being sent a picture of a foil facemask by my sister (if you've already scrolled to the bottom and quickly caught a glimpse at the scary looking sticker below that photo, I will explain that later too), and then I used various pictures of random people on Pinterest to form the face structure underneath the mask. I tried various different backgrounds for this painting including outer space but turns out this portrait didn't want to be an alien, and so instead I present to you a random human on the beach wearing a foil facemask. As the facemask and flower display were doing such a good job at making this person blend in, she is also wearing a jumper because it's September, therefore, colder and this is all of course very realistic... Appreciation note to my sister for l...

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...