The Flower Collection

Hi guys, so I'm not doing Blogmas this year.. even if I wanted to - it's 12 days in already lol. Maybe next year, or maybe i'll do Eastmas for Easter! (I need to stop don't I?).

I'm glad to show you guys my latest collection that I completed over about 3-4 months with a colour scheme of Red and Blue inspired by flowers. I'm not going to do an individual description for each of them as they're all identical but I'll explain the process x

 

Firstly I started off brainstorming, I usually get my ideas from watching fashion shows on youtube (recommended channel - fatalefashioniii). I also createed a board on pinterest about flowers, flower fashion etc.

 









Secondly I started my sketching process and then I inked (finelined), lastly I coloured with my markers.

 

Materials used:

• Youtube 
• Pinterest 
• Faber Castell Sketch Set
• Faber Castell Putty eraser
• Unipin fineliner 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8
• Copic Ciao markers 72 B set
• Finecolour markers 36 set
• Faber Castell Classic colours
• Derwent Studio 12 set

 

Thanks guys, for reading! My next post is a beauty haul which will be out tonight so stay awake! 

Lauren x

a random emotional blog post.

When the world gets me down... I switch off. My phone and my iPod. Then I experience all sort of emotions... usually they're negative. It all ends in anger and me wanting to express my feelings, to someone or something - that's why I wrote this blog post.

Do you ever feel, you have what it takes to succeed but because of certain things or people you'll never be able to achieve it?

I'm incredibly proud and I thank God that he gave me artistic hands but, strangely it's not recognised. I'm seen as boring because i'm not like other girls.

Art has been one long journey for me, I started giving up several times and noticed that many people were much better. It took ages to perfect it and I still am. I have confidence in my talent. I have a lack of self confidence because of the environment around me and it was actually an incident that sparked this blog post. A lot of people say and think I show off, not to my face though - however I know in my heart that I worked hard to get this far, I worked hard to own the amount of pens and paints that I do.

At my stage in life, I guess its about socializing, forming relationships and well - being a teen. I'm finding it hard to grow up I guess. We all go from not caring about what we look like, to spending hours in the bathroom. We all go from toys and Disney movies to makeup and cell phones.

I tried to make this change too fast and wished I had slowed down. Everyone I ever changed myself for never deserved it really.

I just feel emotionally unstable at the moment so yeah, end of rant.

CHAOS!!!

So, those who have been following my blog for a while would know that this time last year I was doing blogmas - that's gone super fast. Unfortunately due to my schedule this year, I can't fit blogmas into my plans :(. I will have Christmas themed posts however, I just cannot do them everyday. I'm in semi exam mode and I also will be going on holiday to Ghana on the 15th so i'll be cut off from any wifi for about 2 days lol, so that would have taken a few days out of blogmas anyway...

Well, it's all been chaos lately. I'm approaching exams, making a new portfolio, sleepless nights and teenage thoughts. It's all really strange and hectic but hopefully I should get through it soon.

Love you all, Lauren x

My Society 6 Store!

I've been away for ages, I know! I'm so sorry been busy on society 6! Today i'm going to be showing you guys my new online store where you can get all my artwork and buy it as well as other products! 

My society 6: https://society6.com/laurenwilliamsillustrations

Various items are up for sale, some of my most popular designs are up for sale and I'm also taking custom and personal designs too. 

The following on sale are: 

• Art prints - paper and canvas (also framed)
• Tote bags
• Pillows
• Clocks 
• Phone Cases (iPhone, Samsung and iPod)
• Mugs 
• Laptop sleeves and skins

I do have more coming and will be making a whole lot more products, however Christmas is coming and if you know an arty person - these might be a good gift. 

For any personal designs, please contact me by: laureywilliamsfashion@gmail.com / laurenwilliamsillustrations@gmail.com

To visit the shop please click the link: https://society6.com/laurenwilliamsillustrations

Spoken word: What's really up in 2015.

Aside from the usual fashion arty posts, today is quite serious. I wrote a poem out of boredom to reflect our generation. Warning contains strong language. 

It's entitled "That's how we do it in 2015", it addresses a few of the issues that we have going on as teenagers in today's life.

I'd really love to read your thoughts on what I wrote so please comment below and lets get a conversation started! 

Lauren x

20 Facts about me

20 FACTS ABOUT ME 

I have tried not to make this post really typical and put boring posts in so bear with me! 

1. I am Royalty

Yes, that's right! I intend to make another post explaining this in better detail but, In Ghana I come from a town called Bompata. There my Grandma is Queen Mother and my Grandad is King. This has been in the family for many years and will eventually come down to me. They stick to hardcore tradition but it looks a lot of fun.

2. I'm scared of Rats

I can't stand such vermin and I don't understand how they can be kept as pets! I'm so afraid of them I was thinking about sleeping outside when they invaded our house.

3. Friends

I have a lot of friends and only three best friends. Two are girls and one is boy. Those who know me well can guess who they are. 

4. One day I'll be the worlds most famous pen hoarder

I'm currently on the right track with 1000's of miscellaneous pens and 48 finecolour markers, 72 copic ciao's and 20 promarkers.

5. Leytonstone from Birth

I was born at Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone and currently in 2015 I live a road away from that hospital lol.

6.  I've had more of the same phone than the average person. LOL what?

Well let me explain my phone journey. Around 10 I got the LG pink flip, around 11 I got the LG Cookie, at 13 I got a blackberry curve 8520 and then I got a blackberry curve 9360 (one broke so I got another of that) and then I finally got an iPhone 4! (One broke so I got another iPhone 4) Followed by an iPhone 5c (sadly stolen by you know who connaught girls) and then a Sony Xperia and Currently a Samsung Galaxy S4 and an Apple iPod 5th gen. 

7. Relationship status - confused with it all.

8. Worst Lesson at school - RE and French

9. Role Model - Lupita Nyongo

10. Hidden talent 

Some say I can sing, I'm not too sure. I sing occasionally at school shows and all but I don't know lol! 

11. Favourite country - Ghana no doubt or question! 

12. Ugh. 

Earrings annoy me so much, if I wear them it's for an occasion. I fiddle, they get itchy and annoying and I end up taking them off.

13. I have a terrible diet

I eat what I find, I don't watch the food content or calories. If it's nice, it's nice.

14. My favourite homecooked meals 

Has to be Jollof rice and red red (Palm oil and black eyed beans and plantain)

15. I'm not sporty.

I hate sports, I will do anything to get out of them and I don't try at all in PE. If I need to book an appointment,  I make sure it's when I have PE.

16. My favourite drink is supermalt 

Ask anyone who's seen me on my way home or to school. If I'm not drinking some malt it means i've has a bad day...

17. I prefer old school tunes to what we have now

If I listen to music in english at all, I take it back to the times of TLC, Aaliyah, BoyzIIMen, Ashanti, Ja Rule, Destiny's child and so on. It's when music made sense to be honest. Now we have anaconda - kill me now.

18. Someone has broken my heart before

I'm still young so it's not that bad but sadly I've been taken for granted before and it only all came to an end yesterday but that's a story for another day!

19. I'm amazingly good with accents

I can do most accents around the world really good, I don't know where I got that from anyway but yeah! 

20. I love to draw - stating the obvious right? 

Lol, thanks so much for reading guys. If you missed out on any recent posts:

• 31st Oct OOTD
• What's in my makeup bag?

31st October OOTD and Face beat

Some of you were busy pumpkin carving and dressing up for Halloween, my Saturday was completely different to yours and I'm here to tell you all about it! I thought favourites are getting boring so why not do an ootd!

I woke up around 7 am on Saturday because it was my new born Cousin's naming and Christening, I had to travel to Watford and that meant an hour car journey. Surprisingly afterwards we found out that a really important guest had arrived in the UK from Ghana. He happens to be the king of our home town and we got to meet him yesterday! We met him in The Gold Coast Bar in South Norwood, London where we ate exotic Ghanaian food and had a great time. 

OOTD:

My picture is not amazingly clear or full, but for the day I wore a Lace layer midi dress which was whitish/creamish and it's from True Decadence and it cost me £35.00. I wore plain black heels from next too. Accompanied by the dress was a plain black blazer (had it for ages not sure where it's from) and a choker from M&S costing £5.50 on sale.

Mother and me!

FACEBEAT: 

This was a special occasion so I thought why not have a face beat! For those of you who are confused, a face beat is beating  your face with cosmetics until looks as desired. I decided to go for a light look to match my dress. 

Foundation - L'oreal Paris Perfect Match Foundation in (Cappuchino)

Highlight - Revlon Photoready (Cappuchino)

Contour - Sleek CC Cream (Dark) (I hardly did any contour but yeah)

Eyeshadow - Me Makeover Essentials (Transition colour stone grey mixed with coffee and crease colour baby pink)

Eye liner - W7 Liquid eyeliner 

Dimples from plain old dimple shop 

Lips - Good old Vaseline. 

It took about an hour and a half to get ready, overall I had a great day and it was super fun! Let me know if you'd like anymore OOTD's x

Song of the day - Jhene Aiko ft Kendrick Lamar - Stay Ready