What I Wore (yesterday)

what i wore today / something a little different

tried something a little different today, technique-wise (largely inspired by miss emma trithart, check out her shiny new website). i really like the textures & the results of haphazardly piecing together individual components. the outcome doesn't feel quite right though, possibly because it's so different to my usual & not entirely what i had in my head beforehand (& i'm not used to not using more black/outlines in my work), but it was fun all the same.

you can see the full image here.

more bones

hey, remember that new postcard set i mentioned? well, this is it. you can snap one up here.

talkin' dirty

getting a job for a magazine is generally a good thing, but it's even better when it's one you actually subscribe to. a little while back i was asked by bust to illustrate a piece on female-hosted sex-positive readings & today i got the issue through my letterbox. haven't had time to read through yet, but am happy to share space with tuesday bassen & yelena bryksenkova, two super excellent illustrator ladies.

Just a guy and his cabin. Another one for this.

a new personal project: natural beauty. a comment on the concept of "natural beauty" being something you have to strive to achieve, rather than simply embracing what you've got. also an opportunity to use illustration as a means of saying something, which i don't do often enough (this is something that's been on my mind a lot lately). you can see the rest of the series & read more about it on my website.

half dead

was listening to this song by this band & this drawing happened.

spent the afternoon binding some new mini-notebooks & listening to podcasts. a pile of these things is a pretty satisfying thing to hold.

35mm

i finally got around to adding photos from my trip to flickr. i took my old 35mm practika that used to belong my my dad; i hadn't actually used it for a couple of years, which certainly shows. it was so nice to get some images developed after so long however (despite the price), & these are my only real physical souvenir from the trip so i'm grateful that they came out. you can see the rest of them here (towards the bottom).

as a side note, i'm surprised by how much i genuinely miss toronto. i'd never been so sad to leave somewhere before in my life.

last weekend kathryn & i went to the botanic gardens to draw. we ended up spending our time inspecting the underside of ferns for seed pods & harassing the poor mimosa pudica instead. after warming up with a coffee & wandering in some late afternoon sunshine however, i did a sketch which turned into the above. my favourite part of the gardens is house 6 - the palm house - which is the tallest space within the glasshouses. it's quite easy to forget you're in the middle of glasgow when you're under a dense canopy of enormous tropical leaves.