luke and loui

this is a picture of my friend luke, and his best friend louisa. i don't know louisa all that much, but shes absolutely beautiful. as is luke. so although i have done this image in my notebook without faces, it would be a complete shame not to draw the whole image for a final piece in my portfolio. fingers crossed i don't mess it up too much so the humour goes and all i'm left with is a deformed couple, and two people who are a little bit offended by my terrible observational skills.

these two are amazing. louisa goes to university in london i think but her and luke's home is in southampton, so although they don't see each other every day, like most friends, they always seem to have such an amazing time, whether it be at a car boot sale or on a night out.

i think all friends should be like this. and i am lucky enough to have a very similar relationship with a select group of people. and this is my dedication to an amazing unfaltering friendship...

mmmmmm

probably the best think in the world

this weekend, whilst having a pretty rough and peculiar breakfast at some service station with a couple of friends, i made the statement "can we not sit here?...it smells like hot". then i continued to try to convince everyone that hot DOES have a smell!! like when it's about to rain, that has a smell. they all agreed with that one, but the 'smell of hot' argument was less successful.

anyway. the conversation quickly moved onto when something tastes like a smell. it doesn't really make sense and I'm sure there's some scientific explanation for it, but for now, I'm happy to call it that. then i thought...wouldn't it be nice to have a sandwich that tasted like the smell of cut grass...or petrol, and for this hybrid sandwich stuck in the middle of taste and smell, to actually taste like the smell, and not just taste like grass...because that's not particularly satisfying.

wouldn't that be just magical?

anyway...i did this in honor of that conversation on a strange Saturday morning on our way home from some friend filled night full of things i wish i could remember...

so, although today has been a bit rubbish, i have managed to do a couple of nice pieces in my notebook which i can see myself working from to create some stuff to go into my portfolio.

As my friends are the source of most of my inspiration, not seeing them for the last couple of weeks has left me lacking in ideas, which is strange because i was planning on becoming a hermit in order to concentrate. turnes out, without my interactions with my friends and strangers face to face, im a bit dead inside. so...looks like ill just HAVE to go out in order to get some good material for Mr. Folio.

so yeah, although im feeling a bit empty, i have atleast spoken to a few friends which has fueled me with enough inspiration to do these bits, but hopefully going to the pub tomorrow will motivate me for the next few working days...

got my business cards through the post today. it was a slight peak in an incredibly shitty day.

apart from the jaundice they look good in REAL!

my univrsity portfolio

after i decided to take out a year from university and start taking my commission work seriously, ive really started to find my own style, but once again, im pulled back to reality...its university application time!

since ive been doing commission work, i have realised im not a fine artist, im an illustrator. so im applying to a new university to study just that! i really do feel this is the best idea ever! im so excited! and now my work on my portfolio must begin. i have cleared my work for the next month just to concentrate on it.

ive got a few ideas banging about as to what im going to base the majority of my portfolio on...most of it will be based on my relationships with friends and strangers, a few of the pictures of "people" i have drawn recently will probably star...