A fine purchase indeed!

Check out these beaut's that just arrived in the studio from the marvelous Tonwen Jones! That is a spectacular pose if i ever did see one.

New Year's Resolutions - No. 19 - Organise my time better

No 19. is to organise my time better. I'm on it with organising my work flow but my personal life is pretty shambolic and I find myself running round like a headless chicken.

A thank you

This is for the awesome Charlie Davis who has done me another (of many) favours! Thanks love your ace! (last giff for a while I promise)

New Years Resolutions - No. 18 - Go to more events

So I did yesterday's Resolution last night; go to more work events. I went to a drinky doodle night, a pint of ale and a speed round of drawing, twas ace - though there were a few deaths via drowning, with the odd pint spillage.

Here's a portrait someone did of my mug, not bad but slight claw nose me thinks. I went with Ant aka BigABand, definately going to make that a regular thing, was a blast. I'm off out again tonight with a bunch of fine illustrators, to discuss which pen weight is best, I joke!

photos via someone ace that took them last night, I will update when I find out who. You can see more that I took on my iphone on my flickr here

New Years Resolutions - No. 16 - Woo

No. 16 is to stain those lips of mine every once and a while. I have a thing about lipstick, I would love to be the sort of girl who could pull off lipstick but I can't help but feel a little more like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman than the beauty that is Hepburn. I shall over come my fear of looking like a prostitute and give it a bash, hopefully I won't get any slow moving cars behind me!

Oh yes please, these will be mine.

What a fine pair of shoes! I can't quite get over how amazing they are, I was trying hard to just show one pair on this blog but I loved so many I had to make a selection. The whole ethos of the company is brilliant, using fair trade materials; the soles are made from used tires! Love that. Go have a gander.

I found these babies via this ace sweet blog. Kempt has a beautiful writing voice and great taste, another place to get lost in for hours with a nice cup of tea.

Testy testy

Someone has asked me if I could do them a giff animation and this is a super quick little testy, the tail is wrong but it makes me quite excited.

New Years Resolutions - No. 15 - Fancy Dress

I'm a bit of a t-shirt and jeans kinda gal and even though I love beautiful shoes and dresses I rarely wear them. So this year I will find/create an occasion where I have to dress up all fancy! Though I doubt I'll slurge on this Matthew Williamson stunner, well unless I blag myself into the V&A design party again.

New Years Resolutions - No. 14 - learn an instrument

When I turned 21 my boyfriend brought me an amazing guitar, after a rather embarrassing episode trying to learn Postman Pat of all things I gave up, this is quite unlike me - I hate failing. So No. 14 is to not give up, a saxophone would be pretty cool, though perhaps I will start this resolution by picking up my beauty of a guitar first.

New Years Resolutions - No. 13 - Be more optimistic

So I'm having to catch up on my resolutions, last week was just so manic, a lot of late nights drawing away like a crazy person.

This one is to be more optimistic - 'the glass is half full'! (Yep a good whiskey is my favourite tipple)

Music Crush - The Besnard Lakes

I have had some mega late nights in my studio this week beavering away and a buddy of mine who is a music encyclopedia and a pretty smart VFX guy (go see) put me onto these peeps. The are ACE! Put up the volume and prepare to sing! enjoy.

p.s I know I am behind on NY resolutions illo's a couple coming up later, I just haven't had the chance to scan them.

New Year's Resolutions - No. 12 - New Lingerie

After 7 years with your boyfriend you get a bit slack, out with the grey and in with the pink.

Skola School - Map of London

This is the map of London I sneak peeked a while back. I illustrated it with Tonwen Jones before Christmas for Skola schools. I had an awesome idea for a slightly different take on a map tonight, definitely one I will have to do, actually I may make that a New Year's Resolution!

New Year's Resolution No. 11

This is a double whammy really - 1: being that I need to get away more, I haven't been on a proper (I class proper as in back pack and a few weeks) for a couple of years. These week here and there aren't cutting it for me and I don't really class anywhere in the UK as a real break, well maybe Cornwall. 2: not to be such a perfectionist, I made myself do this drawing in 1 minute (well 1.05 seconds) and to just leave it be and be happy with it. There are bits that really drive me crazy but I also love the simplicity of it. Maybe I will do a series of 1 minute drawings too!