Elle Vietnam July 2013 - SUNKISSED

I love this beautiful Elle Vietnam beauty edit 'SUNKISSED'.

Model - Lina Zhang

Photographer - Stockton Johnson

Sunkissed is exactly the tone of the shoot. Natural, earthy, pure and simple finished off with a golden glow.

One of the images in this editorial inspired me to illustrate the image below! I wonder if you can guess which one it is?

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Celebrations

Last week I turned 22 :), it was a crazy week.

I went home to Devon to visit my family and friends to celebrate for the whole week. Usually I'd be celebrating with a meal and drinks, but this year I enjoyed country walks and a lot of meals (no alcohol needed - I must be getting mature lol).

At the end of the week I returned to Southampton to have joint birthday celebrations with two of my university housemates. We had a funky 90s theme BBQ during Saturday day and went to Junk night club in the evening.

Gifts I got from my family and friends:

Lomography camera (have wanted one for ages)

Pandora ring, 

Floral head piece,

Biannual subscription to Love magazine,

Jeremy Scott x Adidas swim piece (hell yes baby!!!)

and a denim dress. :)... felt spoilt, got everything I wanted and more.

I had a great birthday with the best people, my friends and family!

If I was a designer...

Fashion illustrations of two outfits I'd like to be wearing this summer. 

I've recently finished my university degree in fashion with promotion and communication. I would have loved to have studied fashion design and it would be an amazing career that I could express my creative side through, but the actual creation of the garments put me off the idea. I do (luckily) love illustration, so at least I can show you my fashion design/style ideas.

A summer of mesh/netting, monochrome, turquoise and prints.

Illustrations, graphics and editing by myself.

White and pastels

Last night instead of going to bed at a normal hour I decided to practice a little fashion illustration.

This is an illustration of a editorial image I found in an old Wonderland magazine.

The colours in the illustration sum up the colours I am loving at the moment for Spring/ Summer 13, white and pastels.

They have arrived!!!

Hell yes... my white Vagabond sandals are FINALLY safely in my room! I am now itching for a sunny day so that I can whack these bad boys out, absolutely in love :).

To top off my good mood, I've finally got the Adobe programmes on my Mac. This means more fashion illustration blog posts coming very soon!

Hope everyone is having a good day too :) ?

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.