A Lace Of Grey

If anyone had noticed I haven't made a post in almost a week, SORRY! Been super busy, I've had and completed an internship in Southampton and today I have started a weeks fashion drawing course at the prestigous Central Saint Martins.

So happy and excited to be learning fashion illustration from some of the best. Today was very 

abstract work and all about getting to be confident with you own work. 

I came home and drew this illustration below which was inspired from a editorial in this months Elle magazine. The atmosphere and texture created in this illustration made me name it "A Lace Of Grey."

I'm very excited to see what tomorrow's lesson has to offer. And I promise I will post a great, beautiful, fashion and inspirational post either Wednesday evening or Thursday evening :).

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Jeremy Scott x Adidas

So I've been constantly applying for fashion and beauty jobs in London the past few weeks, I can't believe how hard and competitive it is finding a job with creative and business attributes. 

The only interest I currently have had is working for companies for free. As a recent graduate I am already in a huge amount of debt and can't keep digging myself deeper into a hole, I also think it is completely unethical of companies to get staff for free without any possibility of employment at the end of the internship/ placement. 

As the weather has been absolutely lush today I took a couple of hours off from job hunting and decided to do this "Jeremy Scott x Adidas" blog post that I have been meaning to do for a while. 

I got this swim piece for my birthday and have fallen in love with it, also Iggy Azalea and Nicki Minaji have both been seen wearing it! ekk.

Levi cut off shorts, white Vagabond sandals and red lips finish off this look.

Would have loved to have created a fashion illustration with this post but I have ordered new equiptment and am waiting for it to arrive before I next draw. 

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Illustration

If anyone had noticed, it's been about a week since I have last done a blog post because I have had a busy week and weekend celebrating my 22nd birthday! Sorry, I promise to be more constant with the posts from now on :). 

I'm going to do a post soon on my birthday, but until then I thought I'd share with you an illustration I created during my Final Major Project a couple of months ago. This picture was used for the front cover of a magazine I created about fashion illustration. Imagine this image on matte laminate card with simple black text.

Fashion illustration

Whilst I have the next month to relax because uni is over, I wanted to make the most of my free time by practicing some fashion illustration techniques. This is an image that I illustrated and edited on Photoshop. There were so many outcomes and a variety of moods that I could capture during editing, so there may be some more uploaded at a later date. For now, this is a simple style that I like.

Purity

 WOW.  Here are head shots of some of the "super models" that we know and love at the begging of their career with out any makeup on. Stunning, pure and innocent looking.

Casting director Douglas Perrett of COACD released  the Polaroid pictures (taken from 2000- 2010) of the future models in their first casting in a book called "Wild Things".

Treat yourself

I recently ran out of my daytime and nighttime moisturiser cream at the same time. I knew that Soap & Glory had a 3 for the price of 2 offer on so I thought I'd seize the opportunity to bag myself some quality products for a cheaper price. Me being me, I couldn't stop at just 3 products and ended up treating myself to 6 haaa. Needless to say my skin feels wonderful and I currently have and "eekkk" moment of excitement when using each new product. It was definitely worth the splurge, sometimes you just have to treat yourself.

While purchasing my products, Boots had a Clarins promotion and I ended up blagging myself samples of daytime and nighttime moisturiser cream as well as facial toner and cleanser for free.

In all, not a bad day for beauty products :).

Nets & Mesh

 

The past couple of weeks I have began to notice garments made from net or mesh creep into fashion imagery and high street railers. Netted items previously associate with tack have now changed their appearance and are now becoming a micro trend. 

How to wear netting this summer? Maybe a large netted top thrown over your bikini? A mesh long sleeve shirt layered under a simple top? A leather skirt underneath a sheet of netting in the same colour? Endless possibilities... Be creative and mix it up how you like!

My three favourite items of the moment...

I cannot get enough of this look... 

Im currently in love with the colour emerald green and predicting it to be a hot colour for this Spring/ Summer 13. 

The eyes shadow has a golden glow because of Mac "Gorgeous Gold" was used for first base eye shadow. Urban Decay "Graffiti" shadow was then blended into the gold.

To complement the warm tones in the eye shadow I'v chose the Topshop "OHH LA LA" lipstick. This lipstick is one of my favourites and I wear on day-to-day basis.  

Sequin Sunday

Today has been all about sequins.

My friend who study's make-up and beauty needed a model today to test shoot on. Of course I said yes to helping. Any excuse to pose in front of the camera.

The concept of the shoot was "Exaggerated bindi". Bindis, sequins and glitter on the body all make me think of hot summers at carnivals and festivals, where there are no boundaries for bright colours and creativity.

Make-up artist is Danielle Batey,
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