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